Using Azure

[SVM]

So in terms of building a robust & resilient network having a PDC in the cloud and local DC's is a good way forward would you say?

 

It would depend on what services you are trying to have redundancy against, loss of internet onsite, loss of power onsite, loss of Azure VM etc but having a DC in the cloud does not offer much on its own, there are other ways to add in redundancy

[owen1978]

It would depend on what services you are trying to have redundancy against, loss of internet onsite, loss of power onsite, loss of Azure VM etc but having a DC in the cloud does not offer much on its own, there are other ways to add in redundancy

 

My thinking at the moment PDC is Azure, a local DC, Bonded internet connection - so no internet downtime, switches & routers on UPS. That's for now, eventually all our servers in azure when price is more competitive.

[mavhc]

Ask the people in charge what they want, how much they want to pay to ensure that failure x doesn't stop work.

 

If there's an extended power cut won't they send everyone home?

 

If there's no internet access will they still want to use computers anyway?

[MS2011]

We back up to a local NAS with Veeam, than back up the last 30 days (rolling) to Azure with Cloudberry Ultimate. This also allows us to set a "delete old backups after" time, so we can set that to 180 days, to ensure we don't get hit by the "you stored it for less time" charges with Archive tier storage.

 

We currently have 62TB of data in our backup storage on Azure.

 

How much do you pay monthly for storing your backups to Azure?

[localzuk]

How much do you pay monthly for storing your backups to Azure?

We've got 80TB in there now, and pay about £100pm.

[MS2011]

We have Site-to-Site VPN with the Azure.

Few servers hosted:

Additional DC for each of our domains

Application Server (this hosts licensing server for several software, portable applications etc)

Print Server (PaperCut Site Server)

Net2Access Paxton Server

 

We also use Intune to manage the Staff Windows 10 Surfaces. Devices are joined to AZ AD then used Intune to manage/deploy the settings/policies & the software (Office 365, Chrome, Adobe Reader, TeamViewer, VLC)

 

Hi

 

I m planing to move Virtual Print Server into Azure, how did you done yours? Did you moved VM or build a new server in Azure and migrate PaperCut DB.

 

Thanks

[mavhc]

You want to upload all your print files to the internet, for your printer to download them all again? I assume it manages to avoid doing all that and send them over the LAN if possible

[dmj]

You want to upload all your print files to the internet, for your printer to download them all again? I assume it manages to avoid doing all that and send them over the LAN if possible

It doesn't always work like this - if the application is cloud based (thinking Google docs, online O365), the files start on the internet in the first place so theres no real difference.

 

I'd approach the problem by using an external database, and uploading my existing database to that - I like to keep the application ephemeral, as I usually deploy in a container so I don't have to pay for a VM for every application! I'd then build the application containers for papercut (or a vm image if you are old school) and link it to the database.The SAAS solutions for databases are quite varied and good on most cloud providers. My only beef with Azure is that I can't recover a single DB (using postgres) I have to restore the entire server which is a pain if I have a lot of DB's.

[MS2011]

Good morning

 

Can someone advise me best way to move virtual Papercut server onto azure.

 

Thanks

MS

[Jcx500]

I'd say spin up a new azure vm ,site to site vpn

[dmj]

Good morning

 

Can someone advise me best way to move virtual Papercut server onto azure.

 

Thanks

MS

 

*best* is usually subjective, but I would go with:

 

Build an external DB in Azure using AzureDB for postgresql/mysql etc.

Build containers

Build the AKS

Populate the AKS with your containers

Migrate the DB

Change the DNS to put the new servers live