David Armour posts

One of the best things about running your VMs in Azure or Azure Stack is you can begin to modernize around your virtual machines (VMs) by taking advantage of the services provided by the cloud.

Before we built Azure Stack, our program manager team called a lot of customers who were struggling to create a private cloud out of their virtualization infrastructure.

If you do it often, automate itIn the virtualization days, before cloud and self-service, it took a while to get all the approvals, credentials, virtual LANs (VLANs), logical unit numbers (LUNs), etc.

Most apps get delivered by a team. When your team delivers the app through virtual machine (VMs), it is important to coordinate efforts.

In the virtualization days I used to pad all my requests for virtual machines (VM) to get the largest size possible.

Self-service is core to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Back in the virtualization days, you had to wait for someone to create a VLAN for you, carve out a LUN, and find space on a host.

When we discuss Azure Stack with customers, they see the value in Azure Stack providing cloud-native capabilities to their datacenters.

The Microsoft Azure Stack product team is hosting a meetup at the Ignite 2016 conference in Atlanta on Monday, Sept. 26th.