Moving to Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Set

Introduction

In episode 175 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about building Avatars with Microsoft’s Speech Studio. Then we also talk about Copilot Pro, the new offering of Copilot for consumers and then we take a closer look at moving to the SAP System to Flexible Virtual Machines Scale Set. Goran talks about the new script that simplifies the migration of systems setup using proximity placement groups to moving to flexible Virtual Machines Scale Set.

Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode175

Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:

• Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
• Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
• Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/

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Summary created by AI

Key Topics:

• AI in PowerPoint: Holger shared a blog post by Sonika on how to use AI to create talking avatars in PowerPoint and demonstrated the tool.
• Copilot Pro: Robert confirmed that Copilot Pro is now available for Microsoft 365 customers as a consumer edition and that Microsoft is removing the 300 seats minimum requirement for Copilot
• Moving to flexible VM: Goran gave an update on how to move SAP VM systems to flexible VM mode using a PowerShell script and explained the benefits of using this mode over proximity placement groups. He also showed how to handle snapshots and NetApp volumes during the migration.

• Harnessing AI to Transform PowerPoint Presentations: A Technical Dive into Immersive AI Avatars
• Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses
• How to easily migrate an existing SAP system VMs to Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Set

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:20 First AI Introduction
• 1:05 Harnessing AI to Transform PowerPoint Presentations - A Technical Dive into Immersive AI Avatars
• 2:00 Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses
• 3:50 Motivation - Why Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Set?
• 10:00 Migrate existing availability set - manual steps
• 10:55 Automating steps via Powershell
• 17:50 Demo from Visual Studio Code
• 21:00 Demo with no availability zone
• 24:30 demo with zones
• 30:00 Looking at managed disks v2
• 36:00 Azure NetApp Files
• 39:20 Disclaimer
• 42:00 Post configuration task