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Azure Local | HomeLab – Fixing a Failed Cluster Build
Validation passed. The build didn’t. Deploying Azure Local 2604 with Local Identity and Azure Key Vault through the portal looked straightforward — until step 0.16 hit a wall and refused to move. What …

Azure Local | HomeLab – Restore VM
When you restore a virtual machine on Azure Local using Azure Backup or Veeam, you get the Hyper-V workload back, but the Arc object is gone. Microsoft does not support ReHydration, meaning the VM …

Azure Local | HomeLab – Local Identity with Azure KeyVault
This setup is used to validate a new feature and is part of a dedicated test environment. Please note that this functionality is still in preview. More details…

Azure Local | HomeLab – Disaster Recovery
The Disaster Recovery capability for Azure Local is currently in preview, but it already offers enough functionality for meaningful evaluation and testing. Exploring this feature early provides …

News | Azure Local 2604
Azure Local 2604 lifts a lot of historical ceilings. SAN storage and disaggregated deployments go GA, breaking the 16 node limit and letting compute and storage scale independently. GPU acceleration …

Tool | Azure Landing Zone Documenter
Azure Landing Zones are the foundation of secure and scalable Azure platforms, but documentation often falls behind as environments evolve. Azure Landing Zone Documenter is an open‑source tool that …

Azure | Azure Landing Zone (test purposes)
An Azure Landing Zone provides a secure, scalable foundation for deploying workloads in Azure. In this post, we explore how a well‑designed landing zone helps organizations establish governance, …

Azure Local | HomeLab – Azure Backup
Azure Local brings cloud innovation closer to your datacenter, and pairing it with Azure Backup through a Recovery Services Vault delivers a robust, enterprise‑grade protection strategy. By …

News | Azure Local 2603
Azure Local 2603 continues Microsoft’s push toward a fully cloud‑consistent hybrid platform. With a new OS baseline aligned to Windows Server 2025, .NET 8.0 updates, and improved AKS support, this …

Azure Local | Bicep – Virtual Machines
Deploying virtual machines to Azure Local becomes far more reliable and repeatable when using Azure Bicep together with Azure DevOps. By defining your infrastructure as code and automating deployment …