The Azure Kubernetes Service AI toolchain operator facilitates language model deployment by automating GPU provisioning and inference setup. Different models offer unique capabilities for various applications, with detailed cost and configuration information based on virtual machine types for optimal usage and testing insights.
Category: Azure IaaS
How to Copy/Move an Azure VM between Regions and VNets
I will demonstrate how to copy a VM to a different region and a different subnet. For some background, this is not a trivial task at first thought. So how about move/copy VM to a region from Canada Central to East US? There are a few ways, but I will show how to do with …
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Performance Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 5: Alerting
To continue in building upon the scenarios of this blog series, I will show how to create an Azure Alert for a VMs that have an average CPU utilization greater than 90% over a 10 minute period. And continuing to leverage Log Analytics. Specifications Summary Alert on any VM that has an average CPU utilization …
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Performance Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 4: Log Analytics Custom Views
As shown in the previous post Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 3: Dashboard, another option to display a form of dashboard is using Log Analytics Custom Views. The collection of views can be found in your log analytics workspace in the Workspace summary blade. For example, the views shown are a bunch of …
Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 3: Dashboard
As shown in my previous post, the log analytics query can return a table or a chart. In this blog post, I will show how to put together various tables and charts together in a dashboard style and for others to see. I will show how to create a dashboard with Azure Portal’s dashboard capability. You can …
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Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 2: Querying
From my previous blog post Monitoring Virtual Machines with Azure Log Analytics Part 1, I have shown Log Analytics connecting to virtual machines to collect telemetry data. This post will show how to query and display tables and charts. In the Log Analytics workspace, click for Log Search. This is the simple query editor against …
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Monitoring Virtual Machines with Azure Log Analytics Part 1
Azure provides a rich set of capabilities for monitoring your Azure resources. Although there is a great deal of documentation and various ways of monitoring services such as Azure Metrics, Application Insights and Azure OMS Log Analytics. I will demonstrate a specific approach to a specific solution that serves to be practical and useful. Provide …
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How To Validate an Azure SQL Database Connection Using Virtual Network Rules
In my blog post Virtual Network Integration between Azure Virtual Machine and Azure SQL Database, I have shown an implementation of secure database connections from a virtual network subnet to a PaaS Azure SQL DB using service endpoints and virtual network rules. I will show how to validate the connection using SQL Management Studio from …
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Virtual Network Integration between Azure Virtual Machine and Azure SQL Database
Objective: To show database connectivity from an Azure virtual machine to PaaS Azure SQL Database using SQL service endpoints in a virtual network. Background: For IaaS environments for internal facing systems, system designers may choose Azure SQL as their database of choice versus SQL Server in a virtual machine. A question or concern may come …
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My Favourite Azure DevTest Lab Features for the Developer Team Lead
Azure DevTest Lab is a wonderful service to manage virtual machines for the purposes of developing and testing in a team scenario. This gives the opportunity for a development team to set granular policies for the lab environment that would may otherwise be managed by the infrastructure or operations group. Here is a summary of …
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