Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [azure]

Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform by Microsoft. Users of the platform can deploy their applications onto cloud hosting benefiting from on-demand service, elastic scale, and a highly managed environment on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. Microsoft Azure can be used to build a web application that runs and stores its data in Microsoft datacenters. It can connect on-premises applications with each other or to map between different sets of identity information.

Azure offers several high level services

Azure offers several services currently in preview

Intro to Azure

Each of these services offers the ability to scale up or down based on demand using predetermined virtual machine sizes to run the services.

Use this tag for questions relating to applications hosted on Azure.

4019 questions
5
votes
2 answers

How does a load balancer get around the 64k port limit?

When a request comes in, it gets rerouted to one of several available servers for the request. But there's only 64k ports available so at any given time there can only be 64k outgoing requests max. So how can some websites serve millions of…
Jayson Tatum
  • 51
  • 1
  • 3
5
votes
1 answer

Unblocking port 25 limitations in Azure

I run my own mail server on Azure for my domain. After deploying a new VM that will replace my existing server I stumbled upon the inability to run trivial email diagnostic tests like port25's DKIM tester. I found this Microsoft article showing that…
usr-local-ΕΨΗΕΛΩΝ
  • 2,359
  • 7
  • 34
  • 52
5
votes
2 answers

Is it possible to take a snapshot of a database in Azure?

So, to clarify, I'm aware I could dump the database using tools written for the database that don't know anything about azure. I know I could do an import / export. And I know I could just extend the point-in-time recovery retention period for the…
Parthian Shot
  • 1,165
  • 4
  • 16
  • 32
5
votes
1 answer

How to streamline the Azure Resource Groups

Not long ago, I started to research Azure Resource Manager and all that it involves. The main goal is to deploy a VM with access to SQL database. Now I'm still trying to work on deploying azure sample templates using this guide:…
B.J.Goodman
  • 454
  • 2
  • 6
5
votes
0 answers

`ls` command hangs indefinitely in some directory in an azure File Storage share

I have an azure File Storage share mounted in a Ubuntu 16.04 VM following this how-to. Everything seems to work fine. So I run some process that produces a lot of data, e.g. 10k files for each run, collect them into a directory for each run, and…
petrux
  • 151
  • 1
  • 5
5
votes
3 answers

postgresql track counts and autovacuum is not working

In the startup log entries indicate the autovacuum not working. I query the pg_stat_user_tables table and the last_vacuum and last_autovacuum columns are empty in spite of the vacuum query I ran just before. Connecting pgadmin to the database gives…
Bart Dirks
  • 91
  • 9
5
votes
2 answers

Moving 3TB of NTFS files from on-prem file server to Azure server - what is best method for transferring

We are moving our on-prem Windows file server with 2.7TB of NTFS files to Azure (we have 100 mb/s VPN site to site connection to Azure) What would people recommend best way to transfer our files keeping the NTFS permissions intact? We can recreate…
Jonathan in Ottawa
  • 51
  • 2
5
votes
3 answers

What are the benefits and drawbacks of using ETag vs LastModified as a CDN cache validator?

I'm reading this article on Azure CDN. I can either control caching with: An ETag Last Modified Default heuristics What are the benefits and drawbacks of the first two choices? Does it matter? Places where one might work vs the other could…
makerofthings7
  • 8,911
  • 34
  • 121
  • 197
5
votes
1 answer

IIS application request routing changes 206 partial content to 200

I've setup a reverse proxy server in an azure cloud service using IIS rewrite rules and the Application Request Routing module (according to the instructions here. Everything is working well except for calls to endpoints I've created to download…
cortez
  • 51
  • 3
5
votes
4 answers

Unable to access postgres remotely from Azure VM

I'm trying to access a postgres database remotely and I can't for the life of me get it to work. I've installed a Gen 2 linux VM in Azure with Ubuntu 14.04 and installed postgres. SSH works remotely, and psql works fine while remoted in. Steps I've…
Grant H.
  • 141
  • 1
  • 9
5
votes
2 answers

How can i create a low disk space alert on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter virtual machine running in Azure. Recently, one of my disks ran out of space. How can i setup a notification system to alert me when one of the disk drives runs low on disk space? The only thing that comes…
RPM1984
  • 151
  • 1
  • 1
  • 3
5
votes
2 answers

Deallocated Azure VM Loses IPv4 DNS Address

I deallocate my development Azure VMs every night to conserve my credits. My VMs are all on one vnet using a domain controller. Since it is on the subnet, the domain controllers address never changes. Every day when I start up my VM I have to…
Jonathan Eckman
  • 153
  • 6
5
votes
1 answer

How can I stop Azure from randomly replacing network cards on VMs?

Azure seems to have the habit of randomly changing the hardware configuration of virtual machines, without telling anything to the user. This is of course mentioned in the documentation, although somewhat vaguely: Can I manually assign IP addresses…
Massimo
  • 70,200
  • 57
  • 200
  • 323
5
votes
2 answers

How do I go about upgrading existing Azure VM with Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2?

Specifically for Azure VM. What is the recommended way to upgrade from Server 2012 VM to Server 2012 R2 on the same VM? I prefer not to have to create a new 2012 R2 VM and really rather upgrade my existing Server 2012 as I have installed different…
Julie S.
  • 51
  • 1
  • 5
5
votes
1 answer

Azure Point-to-Site VPN but no DNS

I've got: an Azure Virtual Network, an Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller on that network, a Point-to-Site VPN set up for that network all the way so that I can connect to it from my local machine and ping VM ip addresses a registered DNS…
Jason Kleban
  • 806
  • 3
  • 9
  • 20
1 2 3
…
99 100