08 Apr 2019
By Yendis Lambert

Azure Availability Zones

Microsoft,
Azure Availability Zones, a high-availability solution for mission-critical applications, is now generally available in UK South. Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone consists of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking. With the introduction of Availability Zones, Microsoft now offer a service-level agreement (SLA) of 99.99% for uptime of virtual machines.
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02 Feb 2015
By Yendis

VM Resource and Availability Service

VMware, , ,
The engineers at VMware have released a cool tool that enables you to perform a what-if analysis for host failures on your infrastructure. You can simulate failure of one or more hosts from a cluster (in vSphere) and identify how many: VMs would be safely restarted on different hosts VMs would fail to be restarted on different hosts VMs would experience performance degradation after restarted on a different host With this information, you can better plan the placement and configuration of your infrastructure to reduce downtime of your VMs/Services in case of host failures. To Get started :- Open hasimulator.vmware.com to…
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