Manage the Availability of Virtual Machines You can ensure the availability of your application by using multiple Windows Azure Virtual Machines. By using multiple virtual machines in your application, you can make sure that your application is avail…

Affinity groups are the way to group the services in your Windows Azure subscription that need to work together in order to achieve optimal performance. When you create an affinity group, it lets Windows Azure know to keep all of the services that be…

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj870962.aspx Microsoft Azure virtual machines (VMs) with SQL Server can help lower the cost of a high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) database solution. Most SQL Server HADR solutions are suppo…

This topic provides guidelines on how to sign up for SQL Server on a Azure virtual machine and how to get started creating SQL Server databases in Microsoft public cloud environment. With SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines, you get the full benefit…

How to Scale an Application To use this feature and other new Windows Azure capabilities, sign up for the free preview. On the Scale page of the Windows Azure Management Portal, you can manually scale your application or you can set parameters to aut…

Load Balancing Virtual Machines All virtual machines that you create in Windows Azure can automatically communicate using a private network channel with other virtual machines in the same cloud service or virtual network. However, you need to add an…

<Windows Azure Platform 系列文章目录> 我们可以通过Windows Azure Management Portal,打开Virtual Machine的Endpoint,借用我之前博文的图片: 但是如果我们需要打开非常多的Endpoint, 就需要手动一个一个地设置,非常的繁琐. 其实我们可以通过Windows Azure Powershell,来批量设置Virtual Machine的Endpoint. 1.假设已经创建完毕一台Vitual Machine,名称为Le…

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-provision-sql-server/ Provisioning a SQL Server Virtual Machine on Azure The Azure virtual machine gallery includes several images that contain Microsoft SQL Server. You can sel…

The wait is finally over. This is a huge update to the Azure Management Pack over the one that was released a couple of years ago, which not only monitors Azure applications but storage and virtual machines as well.  You can download the new manageme…