Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy, and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. Integrate your public cloud applications with your current IT environment and build applications using any language, tool, or framework.

Upgrading your hardware and servers typically is time consuming and has a high price, and maybe too high of a price for your company. This is no reason to miss out on innovative technology solutions for your company with the now available Microsoft Azure cloud computing system.

These Internet accessible servers from Microsoft provide much needed services without expensive investments in new hardware and servers. Cloud computing development is not only cost-effective but also a safe alternative to traditional hardware infrastructures. You will save on both time and money with Microsoft Azure.

Since we are offering many Azure based cloud services such as the TimeNotary, the email archiving and also the cloud based solar panel monitoring dataservices.solar we built up a lot of Know How which we can share with our customers.

Implementing Microsoft Azure cloud computing at your firm will provide immediate benefits such as higher productivity, more cost effective processes and better information flow.

Microsoft Azure services from Aloaha cloud computing consultants help you implement all major parts of the Windows Azure platform which include the following and are growing:

• Windows Azure Virtual Machines - Save on hardware and move your applications to a rented server.
• Windows Azure Compute Services – Elastic processing capabilities for application and web based application and services.
• Window Azure Storage – Structured data storage capabilities encompassing blob, queue and table storage.
• SQL Azure – Relational data services located in the cloud that are based on the SQL server.
• Windows Azure AppFabric – Cloud based middleware for developing cloud and on-premise connected systems.
• Windows Azure Marketplace – An online service for purchasing cloud based data and applications.

If you’re looking to implement systems and processes that will make your company function more effectively, contact Aloaha and inquire about how Microsoft Azure services can help your company accomplish its goals.

One example on how we can help

Typically virtual hard drives in virtual machines have 300-500 IOPS. While for a startup or a basic virtual machine it might be enough. But once your business grows it might be a limiting factor.

Many people are now aware that is pretty easy to increase the IOPS without additional cost! Additional infos HERE

Since the data disks will not cause you additional costs you should run such disks from the very beginning. Below you find the steps to create such a disk!

• The advantage of Windows Azure is that you pay ONLY for the resources used. If you have for example a virtual hard drive of 1TB you do not pay for the 1TB but only for the size of the data on that disk.
• Every virtual machine allows a number of data disks attached to a virtual machine. For example an A0 machine allows one additional data disk, A1 allows two additional disks and A2 already allows 4 additional disks. More infomation on: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-size-specs/
• Consumed IOPS are NOT calculated per disk but per machine. The conclusion is that you can RAID the data disks into one fast array.
• Obviously you could RAID the data disks could be used for a soft array inside your virtual machine. But that would consume expensive CPU Power.
• Luckily Windows Azure allows the customer to create a storage space made of the data disks to archive the maximum performance of Number of Disks X 500 IOPS.
• First you need to attach the maximum allowed empty data disks to your virtual machine. Make sure the size is EXACT 1023 GB.
• Next you need to connect via Remote Desktop to your virtual machine and call Azure PowerShell ISE with elevated privileges
• Now create the below script:

  [int]$StripeSize = 65536
  $PoolCount = Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $True
  $DiskCount = $PoolCount.count
  $PhysicalDisks = Get-StorageSubSystem -FriendlyName "Storage Spaces*" | Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $True
  New-StoragePool -FriendlyName "IOData" -StorageSubsystemFriendlyName "Storage Spaces*" -PhysicalDisks $PhysicalDisks |
  New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "DiskIO" -Interleave $StripeSize -NumberOfColumns $DiskCount -ResiliencySettingName simple –UseMaximumSize |
  Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle GPT -PassThru |New-Partition -AssignDriveLetter -UseMaximumSize |
  Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel "IODisk" -AllocationUnitSize 65536 -Confirm:$false

• Execute the script and give it some time. It can run a couple of minutes
• Once the script finishes open your File Explorer. You will see you have a new hard drive called "IODisk" with the size of DataDisks x 1023 GB.
• Your done! You have now a high performance data disk in your virtual machine!

 

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