Monthly Archives: February 2015

Azure Subscription limits and quotas

Often every cloud services provider, including Microsoft Azure, have the ultimate sales pitch of being highly scalable and elastic; unlimited resources come to mind. In every sense this happens to be true but with certain technological limitations. It is of course hard to say if such limitations are in place due to the actual limitations of the underlying technology or if they are set to make the provider’s manageability manageable. But these limitations are real and therefore it is advisable to be aware of such limitations in a production environment.

So if you are wondering what type of limits your subscription has then you can quick run the following PowerShell cmdlet to get some interesting information.

Get-AzureSubscription -ExtendedDetails

An example of an output of the above cmdlet from my subscription is below:

azuresubscriptionlimits

 

While the above cmdlet provides some exposure to the limits you have on your Subscription, Azure website has a very detailed article in its documentation regarding Azure Subscriptions and Service Limits, Quotas and Constraints that will give you a full picture of all limits your subscription may have.

Microsoft Azure Training 8 – Azure Virtual Networks – Part 2 (Exam 70-533)

This is the Part 2 of the Azure Virtual Networks session. In this session I talk about the Virtual Network configuration files, how the configuration file can be exported as XML and imported. I also go through the demonstration of modifying one of the network configuration file and uploading the changes to the VNET that was created. The latter half of the session I provide the Big Picture of Azure networks by introducing Cloud Services, the Virtual IP (VIP) and talk about the how cloud services are accessed to reach the VMs that you create. Several demonstrations are also provided to discuss the concepts.
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Microsoft Azure Training 7 – Azure Virtual Networks – Part 1 (Exam 70-533)

This is the first part of the several parts of the Azure Virtual Networking session. In this session I go over what Azure Virtual Networks or VNETs are and how they are created. What is Hybrid cross- Demonstration is provided on how the VNETs are created with address space and subnets in mind. There is also a detailed demonstration of VNETs isolation and acessing services across VNET subnets.

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Microsoft Azure Training 6 – Creating Virtual Machines in Azure – The Basics (Exam 70-533)

In this session I go over the basics of creating a VM in Microsoft Azure. This session consists of hands-on exercise of creating a VM with Quick create method and creating one from the Gallery with advanced options. I also go over looking up all information about the created VMs from the Azure Portal and PowerShell in this session. Furthermore the demo consists of connecting to the VMs by downloading the RDP files from Azure portal.

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Microsoft Azure Training 5 – Azure PowerShell Basics (Exam 70-533)

In this session I go over the basics on Azure PowerShell. The session starts with installing the Azure PowerShell modules. Post installation, I go over both Certificate and Azure Account methods of connecting to the subscriptions from Azure PowerShell. Once connected, several exampled of Azure cmdlets are also provided. The session ends with describing how two modes of operations are available from Azure PowerShell.

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Microsoft Azure Training 4 – Navigating the Azure Portal (Exam 70-533)

In this session I go hands-on to demonstrate the Azure Management Portal. I go through the current Management portal as well as the new shiny Preview Portal. The sessions ends with a quick demonstration of creating an Azure Website that is data driven and ready in matter of few minutes to show-off the true essence of the cloud. Please subscribe to the channel to stay updated about the training series. Also please comment on the training videos. Thank you!