Podcast #118: Going Deep on Microsoft Azure Arc, Cloud, Managed SQL, AVD, HCI and More!

Brian invited Ernie Costa to join him for this podcast. Ernie is a Team Lead at Commvault and a Microsoft Azure Hybrid MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Ernie’s LinkedIn profile lists his background as a Systems Administrator, Engineer, and Architect with 20 years of Enterprise, SMB, Financial, Hospitality, and Educational experience.

He was involved with data center operations, on-premises and cloud infrastructure design and implementation, networking architecting, project management, vendor contract negotiations, and multi-tier Help Desk procedures. Ernie knows his way around the data center and the cloud.

As mentioned above, Ernie is also a Microsoft MVP. To put the MVP title into context, Microsoft describes the “award” this way:

“Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the “bleeding edge” and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions to solve real-world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all, and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others – that’s what sets them apart.”

Taking advantage of Ernie’s MVP Award, their conversation gets into Microsoft Azure Arc, Managed SQL Server, HCI Stack, and more.

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Podcast #119 timestamp:

00 Introduction

Background
- Current role with Commvault
- Microsoft consumption
  - Azure
  - Hyper-V
  - Azure Stack HCI

05 Hypervisor and HCI

Why Hyper-V?
On-prem HCI
Reasons for HCI from an internal perspective

10 Hybrid model

Folding all Azure Cloud features into an on-prem HCI
Governance and Security
Azure Arc
What is Arc
- Branding term
- A suite of cloud-connected technologies
- Management

15 Virtual Appliance

- SQL Server deployment
- SQL on Linux
- Everything gets handled for you
- It’s less worry about
- Containerization

20 Server Names

- Naming conventions
- Operational benefits
- Test environments
- Manual vs. Automation

25 Azure Stack vs. Azure Cloud

Similarities
On-prem vs. cloud management
Kubernetes tools
Arc delivers all the visibility

30 Costs

It costs to have it cloud easy
Azure Stack HCI is cost-effective and fast
Early support was spotty
Support today is better

35 Other services

AVD – Azure Virtual Desktop on HCI
Thin Clients
Security
Corporate espionage
Data exfiltration

40 Dispersed Workforce

Global workforces
Data Gravity
On-premise virtual desktops
GPU Partitioning

45 Azure Stack HCI update cadence

Management
Microsoft remote support through Azure
Network desired state
How to experience Azure Arc
Azure Arc Jumpstart

50 Sandbox

SQL Server Managed Instance
Powershell
That’s a wrap

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I have been in the tech industry since IBM created Selectric. My background, though, is writing. So I decided to get out of the pre-sales biz and return to my roots, doing a bit of writing but still being involved in technology.