Demos, Tips & Tutorials

Azure Local Pricing for External SAN Support and Disconnect Operations

Microsoft is expanding Azure Local with new deployment models: external SAN support and disconnected operations via a local control plane. For current customers, your existing Azure Local pricing does not change: $10 per physical core per month, or included with Software Assurance, as long as you stay on existing capabilities. If you choose to modernize … Azure Local Pricing for External SAN Support and Disconnect Operations

Tools for Managing Azure Local: Know What To Use and When

Azure Local is a powerful hybrid cloud solution that seamlessly integrates on-premises infrastructure with Azure services, delivering a high-performance, scalable, and secure distributed hybrid infrastructure (DHI). Because Azure Local combines on-premises clusters with full Azure cloud services, administrators need a mix of cloud-native and local tools. Microsoft provides a mix of modern and traditional tools … Tools for Managing Azure Local: Know What To Use and When

Welcome to Azure Local: What It Delivers and Why You Need It

Azure Local is Microsoft’s virtualized infrastructure platform that extends the power of Azure across virtually any location, whether in on-premises data centers, at the edge, or in fully sovereign environments. Azure Local delivers ultra-low latency for real-time applications, strict data sovereignty and regulatory compliance, and the ability to operate where a public cloud isn’t economically … Welcome to Azure Local: What It Delivers and Why You Need It

Mapping the VMware Ecosystem to Azure Local

For many long-standing VMware customers, Azure Local represents a promising yet unfamiliar frontier. Navigating the Azure ecosystem for the first time can pose research and comparison challenges, especially when evaluating Azure Local as a strategic replacement. The table below bridges that gap by mapping VMware components to their Azure Local counterparts. If you have questions … Mapping the VMware Ecosystem to Azure Local

Azure Local Micro-segmentation with Network Security Groups (NSGs): Overview & Demo

With the release of Azure Local 12.2506 Microsoft has opened the public preview of Network Security Groups (NSGs). This long awaited feature provides micro-segmentation support for Azure Local VMs using simple ACLs. NSGs can be applied to vNics or Logical Networks, and can be applied during the creation of the VM before it ever gets … Azure Local Micro-segmentation with Network Security Groups (NSGs): Overview & Demo

Changing Hypervisors with Veeam: Demos and Expert Help

Considerations in migrating to a new hypervisor is top of mind today. This webinar brings Rick Vanover from Veeam, Benjamin Clements from Strategic Online Systems and Howard Lo from DataON together to talk about their experience about what to consider and lessons learned about migrating customers from one hypervisor to another. Recorded 7/30/24.

Azure Arc, Arc Servers, and Azure Local

DataON’s Jacob Thomas provides a quick explanation of what Azure Arc is and its benefits and capabilities. He also talks about the differences between Arc-enabled servers and Azure Local VMs enabled by Azure Arc.

Azure Migrate Step-by-Step Demo: Migrating your VMs from VMware to Azure Local

Azure Migrate (preview) is a new tool to migrate VMs from VMware to Azure Local. It provides agent-less replication & workload configuration, with no workload impact during replication & minimal cutover time, while all data stays on-premises. DataON’s Jake Thomas takes us on a step-by-step demo on how to move VMware VMs to Azure Local … Azure Migrate Step-by-Step Demo: Migrating your VMs from VMware to Azure Local