https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/managed-disks-overview#highly-durable-and-available Highly durable and available Managed disks are designed for 99.999% availability. Managed disks achieve this by providing you with three replicas of...
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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...
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...
Setting AZCOPY_CONCURRENCY_VALUE on Storage Explorer MacOS Client
The problem this is solving is failed azcopy uploads on slow internet connections. Firstly locate the AzCopyClient.js file and open it in editor vim "/Applications/Microsoft Azure Storage...
Disable the Twitter in-app Browser
When using Twitter on my Android OnePlus 3T phone. If I click on a link and then browse the article. After a short time of scrolling and reading the Twitter in-app Browser locks up and I have to restart Twitter To fix: Click on your profile picture, select settings...
et-safe-mode
Just an FYI for anyone else. If you are using Elegant Themes with a child theme and you try and edit and save a file on the child theme it may time out and fail. This as I've just learned is because of ET Safe Mode Navigate to Divi => Support Center => Safe Mode and...
Azure AZ-300 Passed
MacOS Azure Storage Explorer using azcopy indicates 100% then continues trying failed PUT’s and never completes the copy
Slow Australian NBN can't handle the expectation azcopy has about your bandwidth I have been trying to copy a 1.7GB file to Azure blob storage container and it's been failing. I've changed from Azure account login to a SAS URL and have started to investigate what is...
Viewing Azure WebApp Failed Request Traces
If you enable logging and FTP access to your Web App you get access to a directory tree with different formats of logs. I couldn't view the Failed Request Traces because browsers are highly suspicious of XSL files because they can contain malicious processing...
DiskStorageAccountTypes
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/compute/disks/list#diskstorageaccounttypes If you specify a Disk Type or Sku of Standard_LRS you get a Standard HDD
