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Purpose of the GCP resource hierarchy :- Provide a hierarchy of ownership, which binds the lifecycle of a resource to its immediate parent in the hierarchy. Provide attach points and inheritance for access control and organization policies. This hierarchical organization of resources enables you to set access control policies and configuration settings on a parent resource, and the policies and IAM settings are inherited by the child resources. Organization :- The Organization resource represents an organization (for example, a company) and is the root node in the GCP resource hierarchy The IAM access control policies applied on the Organization resource apply throughout the hierarchy on all resources in the organization. GCP users are not required to have an Organization resource. A user acquires an Organization resource only if they are also  G Suite  or Cloud Identity customers. The G Suite or Cloud Identity account repre...

How to Use EC2 Lifecycle manager for Automated EC2 EBS volume Backup Wednesday, September 12, 2018 5:38 PM Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) for EBS Snapshots provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on Amazon EBS volumes. You can define backup and retention schedules for EBS snapshots by creating lifecycle policies based on tags. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your backups. To create a lifecycle policy <![if !supportLists]> 1.      <![endif]> Login to AWS console at  https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ . <![if !supportLists]> 2.      <![endif]> In the navigation pane, Go to Elastic Block Store -> Lifecycle Manager -> Create snapshot lifecycle policy . <![if !supportLists]> 3.      <![endif]> Fill the required information as requested on screen.. <![if...

Azure Storage Account Hot, Cool & Archive Storage 26 April 2018 Storage Account :- An Azure storage account provides a unique namespace to store and access your Azure Storage data objects. All objects in a storage account are billed together as a group. By default, the data in your account is available only to you, the account owner. Two types of storage accounts:       (i)  General-purpose Storage Accounts   ( V1 and V2) Used for Azure Storage services such as Tables, Queues, Files, Blobs and Azure virtual machine disks under a single account.             (ii)  Blob Storage Accounts Blob storage account is a specialized storage account for storing your unstructured data as blobs (objects) in Azure Storage.     Blob storage accounts supports only block and append blobs, and not page blobs.       Sto...

Difference between different VMware version Wednesday, August 15, 2018 2:04 PM vSphere 4.0 vSphere 4.1 vSphere 5.0 vSphere 5.1 vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6.0 vSphere 6.5 Released Sep-13 Mar-15 Hypervisor ESX & ESXi ESX & ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi CPUs per host 64 160 160 160 320 480 576 RAM per host 1 TB 1 TB 2  TB 2  TB 4 TB 12 TB 12 TB MAX LUN per ESXI 256 512 vCPU per VM 8 8 32 64 64 128 128 vMEM per VM 255 GB 255 GB 1 TB 1 TB 1 TB 4 TB 6 TB Video RAM per VM 512 MB 2 GB VMDK Size 2TB 2TB 2TB 2TB 62 TB 62 TB 62 TB Cluster Size 32 32 32 32 32 64 64 FT Max vCPU 1 ...