https://hybridcore.ca/from cloud to cloud - Azure, sovereignty, and the hybrid future 2026-01-15T04:37:00+00:00 hybridCore https://hybridcore.ca/ Jekyll © 2026 hybridCore /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 2026-01-15T04:35:58+00:00 https://hybridcore.ca/posts/adopting-gen1-vms-into-azure-local/ hybridCore

If you are moving a Hyper-V Gen1 VM, something truly vintage like an Azure Stack Hub VM, or any other workload that refuses to accept that Gen2 exists, good news. You can still adopt it into Azure Local. Azure Local strongly prefers Gen2 VMs. Secure Boot. vTPM. Modern things. Reality, however, contains Gen1 VMs that still matter. This article covers how to bring them along without rebuilding t...

2025-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 2025-08-25T01:12:27+00:00 https://hybridcore.ca/posts/automating-hyperv-vm-adoption-into-azure-local/ hybridCore

Quick view on how automating this thing would look for more than a few VMs. First, let’s split the scripts into 4 pieces - they can be gobbled together if needed, but that makes walkthroughs harder and debugging an all‑in‑one script usually feels like fighting a zergling with a USB cable. If you’d like, you could also keep things split, mash them together into a monster script, add a fancy VM...

2025-08-17T09:00:00+00:00 2025-08-18T01:52:55+00:00 https://hybridcore.ca/posts/adopting-azlocal-vms/ hybridCore

This post is all about taking an existing Hyper-V VM and making it an AzLocal VM - so you can manage it from Azure Local like it’s always belonged there. It’s not quite a migration (nothing’s being migrated cross-platform), and it’s not a full “hydration” either. Think of it as adopting a VM into Azure Local - keep your data, get the AzLocal VM benefits. VMs are VMs… unless they’re running in ...

2025-07-25T09:00:00+00:00 2025-07-25T09:00:00+00:00 https://hybridcore.ca/posts/helloWord/ hybridCore

Alright. Here we are. I set up a blog. That probably means I’ve hit some critical combination of caffeine, irritation, and impulse. Either that, or I got tired of screaming into the social media void and decided to scream into a more structured one. Let’s get this out of the way: this blog is about cloud stuff — especially the kind that still smells like server rooms and the faint aroma of mi...