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GRS and RA-GRS

In short RA-GRS is available to you without M$'s help. GRS needs a failover triggered by M$ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy-grs GRS replicates your data to another data center in a secondary region, but that data is available...

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NTTTCP Windows – Linux both directions

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/create-vm-accelerated-networking-powershell#supported-vm-instances SendReceiveWindowsLinuxntttcp -s -m 4,*,192.168.1.5 -nsntttcp -r -m 4,*,192.168.1.5 -NLinuxWindowsntttcp -s -m 4,*,192.168.1.4 -Nntttcp -r -m...

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Europe 2019

Before I forget July 14 - August 28 Rough Itinerary Fly Royal-Brunei to London Athens, Zakynthos, Kefalonia Greece Verona, Venice Italy Amsterdam, Utretcht Netherlands Antwerp Belgium Schaephuysen Germany Gambais France Eurostar France to train to London Royal-Brunei...

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NTttcp – Test Network Performance

When I was working at Rio Tinto in the New South Wales Hunter Valley. I used NTttcp to test network switch throughput on some Cisco Switches. (From memory they had lost some ports due to a lightning strike) I had forgotten about it for years but was reminded of it...

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Azure VM Types Pneumonic

Whatever helps the memory Nice overview of VM Types or Series https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/pricing/details/virtual-machines/series/ TypePneumonicDescriptionA - BasicAsDev / Test usageA - StandardAdamGeneral PurposeB - BurstablebecameRun on CPU credits and can...

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