Azure-IaaS-Digest number 3 (March)

Disclaimer: I write mostly about Azure in terms of infrastructure (DSC, IaaS, Hybrid \ Private Cloud, OMS, ASR, Backup, etc.). Not about the development of Azure (although sometimes something slips).

We continue to read about Azure, the third issue. There was a lot of rather noisy news, from SQL discharge on Linux, support for Raspberry Pi 3 in Windows 10, but what went unnoticed?
Benjamin Armstrong about Hyper-V's little secrets. (offtop)

Microsoft OMS
Add VM (Linux \ Windows) as a target for Azure Automation DSC.
Azure Backup Calculator.

Azure
Azure Resource Manager and conditions in ARM templates.
Azure (Public) DNS is available.
Recommendations for naming objects in Azure.
An interesting site with video lessons / courses on Azure.
How to migrate CDN from the old portal to the new one. (CDN removed from old portal in April)
Article M. Russinovich about the Open Compute Project and open source in Azure.
How to use your VHD for ARM deployments.
Compare Azure and Amazon.
StorSimple Virtual Array is available.
Azure RMS and Splunk.
Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation (a bit offtop).
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Azure Stack and Pack
Creating your own resource in the Azure Stack on the example of XenDesktop.
Overview of networks in Azure Stack, using VXLan, BGB.
Connector to Microsoft Azure for Azure Pack.
The Phoenix project allows you to use ARM templates in Azure Pack (in fact, using this “piece” and a connector in Azure, you can deploy the “workload” directly into the Azure Resource Manager).