Configuring Static IP Address in Azure Virtual Machine

In this blog I'm going to show you how to configure Static IP Address in Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine, Normally all virtual machines are assigned IP address dynamically but for the server configuration needs to assign Statically.

1. In the Azure Portal Select your Virtual Machine, in this demo I'm selecting my server named Domain.

2. On the Server Page Click Networking.

3. On the Networking Page Select Network Interface: domain475. 

4. On the Domain475 Select IP configuration and then click your Ipconfig1 It's 172.16.1.5 (Dynamic)

5.In the Ipconfig1 page Select Dynamic to Static under the Private IP address settings, and then click Save.

6. Now you can check your server IP is 172.16.1.5 (Static).

Cloud Backup Service using Azure!

In this blog i'm going to show you how to configure Cloud Backup service using Microsoft Azure.

1. On the Azure Portal Click + Create Resource and then Storage and then Click Backup and Site Recovery (OMS).

 2. On the Recovery Service Vault Enter your backup Name and Resource group and then click Create. 

3. On the Dashboard Select your Recovery Service Vault on my dashboard I'm selecting my Recovery Service Vault Local-Server. 

4. In this window you can find the Usage, Back up information, at the movement I don't create any Backup Service, so i'm going to Click +Backup

5. On the Backup Goal window you need to select your running workloads if your workloads running in Azure you can select Azure or you can select On-Premise, and then need to select what do you want to backup. After selecting Click Prepare Infrastructure.

6. On the Prepare infrastructure window you can download Recovery Service Agent, If you already download the Recovery Service Vault just skip the download and Check the Already downloaded, at the movement I don't download the Recovery Service Vault  so just i click Download Agent for Windows Server or Windows Client.

7. After downloading tick the Checkbox that Already downloaded or using the latest Recovery Service Agent and Click Download. 

8. Open your file explorer and then Install the MARSAgentInstaller.

9. In the Proxy Configuration just click Next or if you have Proxy settings then you can enter the Proxy Information.

10. Microsoft Update Opt-In you can select Update or just skip the Update, and click Next, and then click Install. 

11. After Installing Click Proceed to Registration.

12. On the Vault Identification Wizard Browse your Vault Credentials, and Select the Credentials and Open.

13. After Validating you need to enter the Encryption Password and select the storage location for the password setting, and then click Finish.

14. After registering the service make sure the Launch Microsoft Azure Recover Service Agent Checkbox selected, If it's not you can select and close, or you can search Microsoft Azure Backup in the Start menu.

15. On the Microsoft Azure Backup Window you need to create the Schedule Backup

16. On the Select Items to back up window you can Add Items that you want in this demo i'm selecting Doc folder in my Desktop.

17. On the Schedule window you can select Day or Week, for this demo i select Week and My backup time is 11:30 AM and Sunday.

18. In the Choose Initial Back Type you can select Automatically over the network, if you want to save your local backup and cloud backup you can choose Offline Backup,  and then click Next and Finish. 

19. Now the backup is progress.

20. The backup successfully done.