Author Archives: Ganadmin

Key points about Azure Spot VMs and its eviction.

At a technical level, spot VMs are the same as regular VMs. They use the same images, hardware, and disks that translate to the same performance. The difference between spot and regular VMs comes down to priority and availability. Spot … Continue reading

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Azure tag Policies Issues and fixes

Tags in Azure Resource Manager are key/value pairs you apply to subscriptions, resource groups, and resources (not management groups) for things like cost tracking, environment classification, owner identification Special Characters are not supported in tag names for few Azure resources … Continue reading

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Azure Policy “Encryption at Host”

In this blog we can see the steps to enable the Encryption at host for VMs and AKS nodes. The policy targets the resource types Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines and Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets, with the field securityProfile.encryptionAtHost For New VM Check the status of the … Continue reading

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Azure Private Resolver solution

We have a requirement to make sure all the Azure VMs are resolving to our company.com which is our primary DNS domain for on-perm services and also VMs running Azure and from on-perm should resolve azure services like Storage,AKS. Reference: … Continue reading

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How to create the AKS cluster with Entra-ID.

Use the below code to create the new AKS cluster with the Entra-ID Group. az aks create –resource-group myResourceGroup –name myManagedCluster –enable-aad –aad-admin-group-object-ids <id> [–aad-tenant-id <id>] –generate-ssh-keys use the below command to update it to the existing cluster az aks … Continue reading

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How to identify the incoming connection of Azure storage blob container.

To check and identify which IP is hitting the Azure blob container, we need to enable the logs under Diagnostic settings – Log Analytics workspace – Enable Audit logs \ all logs Run this query which will show from which … Continue reading

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Failed to save DNS zone group.

We were facing an issue with running an operation from your Azure Storage Account to create a private DNS zone for a specific private endpoint connection across our DNS subscription. From the logs, we can see an error when trying … Continue reading

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vCenter 8.0 upgrade issue and fixes. The error is pointing out to Content library, from the logs we verified that the cl_metadata table is corrupt. Solution Recommendation : Edited the vCenter Database, changed the cl_metadata table. Made changes to the … Continue reading

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NFS4 Slowness and Vcenter update 3f fixes the issue.

Pls check this blog which I explained about the NFS3 slowness and we were constantly testing every update and working with VMware. Recently we have upgraded the vCenter to update 3f and tested the NFS4 with NFS3 and we are … Continue reading

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VMware Licensing issue after the Broadcom portal migration

We already own the perpetual licensing for vSphere and after the migration we have noticed ESXi 8.0 license are started showing as end date and when we applied it to the new ESXi hosts it started showing the expire date … Continue reading

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