This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks.
Azure
Storage
Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription (preview)
Azure Storage is announcing public preview of the ability to create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts per subscription per region. This is a 20 times increase from the current limit of 250 and helps you create several hundred or thousand storage accounts to address your storage needs within a single subscription, instead of creating additional subscriptions.
Azure Stack
Azure Stack HCI
Network ATC is now publicly available with Azure Stack HCI 21H2
If you’ve deployed Azure Stack HCI previously, you know that network deployment can pose a significant challenge. You might be asking yourself:
- How do I configure or optimize my adapter?
- Did I configure the virtual switch, VMMQ, RDMA, etc. correctly?
- Are all nodes in the cluster the same?
- Are we following the best practice deployment models?
- (And if something goes wrong) What changed!?
So, what does Network ATC actually set out to solve? Network ATC can help:
- Reduce host networking deployment time, complexity, and errors
- Deploy the latest Microsoft validated and supported best practices
- Ensure configuration consistency across the cluster
- Eliminate configuration drift
Network ATC does this through some new concepts, namely “intent-based” deployment. If you tell Network ATC how you want to use an adapter, it will translate, deploy, and manage the needed configuration across all nodes in the cluster.
