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articles/application-gateway/configuration-http-settings.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ services: application-gateway
 author: greg-lindsay
 ms.service: azure-application-gateway
 ms.topic: concept-article
-ms.date: 03/19/2025
+ms.date: 04/14/2025
 ms.author: greglin
 ---
 
@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ The default affinity cookie name is *ApplicationGatewayAffinity* and you can cha
 
 ## Connection draining
 
-Connection draining helps you gracefully remove backend pool members during planned service updates. It applies to backend instances that are 
-- explicitly removed from the backend pool, or
-- reported as unhealthy by the health probes.
+Connection draining helps you gracefully remove backend pool members during planned service updates. It applies to backend instances that are explicitly removed from the backend pool.
 
 You can apply this setting to all backend pool members by enabling Connection Draining in the Backend Setting. It ensures that all deregistering instances in a backend pool don't receive any new requests/connections while maintaining the existing connections until the configured timeout value. This process is also true for WebSocket connections.
 

articles/application-gateway/features.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ services: application-gateway
 author: greg-lindsay
 ms.service: azure-application-gateway
 ms.topic: concept-article
-ms.date: 03/24/2023
+ms.date: 04/14/2025
 ms.author: greglin
 ---
 
@@ -104,15 +104,11 @@ For more information, see [WebSocket support](application-gateway-websocket.md)
 
 ## Connection draining
 
-Connection draining helps you achieve graceful removal of backend pool members during planned service updates or problems with backend health. This setting is enabled via the [Backend Setting](configuration-http-settings.md) and is applied to all backend pool members during rule creation. Once enabled, the application gateway ensures all deregistering instances of a backend pool don't receive any new requests while allowing existing requests to complete within a configured time limit. It applies to cases where backend instances are:
-- explicitly removed from the backend pool after a configuration change by a user, or
-- reported as unhealthy by the health probes
-
-The only exception is when requests continue to be proxied to the deregistering instances because of gateway-managed session affinity. 
+Connection draining helps you achieve graceful removal of backend pool members during planned service updates or problems with backend health. This setting is enabled via the [Backend Setting](configuration-http-settings.md) and is applied to all backend pool members during rule creation. Once enabled, the application gateway ensures all deregistering instances of a backend pool don't receive any new requests while allowing existing requests to complete within a configured time limit. It applies to cases where backend instances are explicitly removed from the backend pool after a configuration change by a user.
 
 The connection draining is honored for WebSocket connections as well. Connection draining is invoked for every single update to the gateway. To prevent connection loss to existing members of the backend pool, make sure to enable connection draining.
 
-For information on time limits, see [Backend Settings configuration](configuration-http-settings.md#connection-draining).
+For more details, see [Backend Settings configuration](configuration-http-settings.md#connection-draining).
 
 ## Custom error pages
 

articles/azure-cache-for-redis/index.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ metadata:
     - ignite-2024
 
 
-  ms.date: 03/11/2025
+  ms.date: 04/14/2025
   appliesto:
     - ✅ Azure Cache for Redis
 
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ landingContent:
       - linkListType: overview
         links:
           - text: What is Azure Managed Redis?
-            url: ../redis/overview.md
+            url: /azure/redis/overview
           - text: What's new?
-            url: ../redis/whats-new.md
+            url: /azure/redis/whats-new
           - text: Azure Managed Redis architecture
-            url: ../redis/architecture.md
+            url: /azure/redis/architecture
           - text: Moving to Azure Managed Redis from Azure Cache for Redis
-            url: ../redis/migrate/migrate-overview.md
+            url: /azure/redis/migrate/migrate-overview

articles/azure-vmware/azure-vmware-solution-platform-updates.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: Learn about the platform updates to Azure VMware Solution.
 ms.topic: reference
 ms.custom: "references_regions, engagement-fy23"
 ms.service: azure-vmware
-ms.date: 4/4/2025
+ms.date: 4/15/2025
 ---
 
 # What's new in Azure VMware Solution
@@ -15,11 +15,15 @@ Microsoft regularly applies important updates to the Azure VMware Solution for n
 
 **AV48 SKU**
 
-Azure VMware Solution AV48 node size is now available in the Japan East region. The AV48 node is built on Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y CPUs with a total of 48 physical cores, 1 TB of Memory and 19.2 TB of total storage.
+Azure VMware Solution AV48 node size is now available in the Japan East region. The AV48 node is built on Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y CPUs with a total of 48 physical cores, 1 TB of Memory and 19.2 TB of total storage. [Learn more](introduction.md#hosts-clusters-and-private-clouds)
 
 **Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud (preview)**
 
-Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution is now in public preview. You can now use Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud from Pure Storage to deploy vVols-based block storage for AVS, enabling you to scale storage independently for your virtual workloads.
+Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud for Azure VMware Solution is now in public preview. You can now use Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud from Pure Storage to deploy vVols-based block storage for AVS, enabling you to scale storage independently for your virtual workloads. [Learn more](configure-azure-native-pure-storage-cloud.md)
+
+**Azure VMware Solution Generation 2 Private Clouds (preview)**
+
+Public Preview of the next generation of Azure VMware Solution is here. Azure VMware Solution Generation 2 Private Clouds is now available in East US, UK South, Switzerland North, and Japan East on the AV64 SKU. With this capability, we've achieved infrastructure innovation, powered by Azure Boost, simplifying networking, delivering 100 Gbps throughput, lowering latency, and boosting performance for VMware vSphere workloads. Private clouds are deployed inside a virtual network, enabling your private cloud with standard Azure Networking. Azure ExpressRoute is no longer required. [Learn more](native-introduction.md)
 
 ## March 2025
 

articles/azure-vmware/ecosystem-external-storage-solutions.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
---- 
+---
 title: External storage solutions overview
 description: Learn about external storage solutions for Azure VMware Solution private cloud.
 ms.topic: how-to
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ ms.author: dsoderholm
 ms.service: azure-vmware
 ms.date: 12/09/2024
 ms.custom: engagement-fy23
---- 
-
+---
+ 
 # External storage solutions
 
 Azure VMware Solution is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) service that offers VMware vSAN as the primary storage option. VMware vSAN provides high-performance NVMe storage for virtual machines. However, it has a limited capacity. The exact amount of storage available in vSAN depends on several factors, including the number and type of nodes in the cluster type; the RAID and FTT (Failures To Tolerate) settings; and the deduplication and compression performance of a particular workload. 
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ When you combine Azure VMware Solution with an external storage service, remembe
 |[Azure NetApp Files](./attach-azure-netapp-files-to-azure-vmware-solution-hosts.md)|NetApp bare-metal hardware with all-flash performance|Azure native|File|NFS|[What is Azure NetApp Files?](../azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-introduction.md)|
 |[Azure Elastic SAN](./configure-azure-elastic-san.md)|Provides a familiar SAN resource hierarchy and industry-standard iSCSI block interface|Azure native|Block|iSCSI|[Introduction to Azure Elastic SAN](../storage/elastic-san/elastic-san-introduction.md)|
 |[Pure Cloud Block Store](./configure-pure-cloud-block-store.md)|Enterprise-grade performance and reliability using Pure Storage technology in Azure|Partner|Block|iSCSI|[Pure Cloud Block Store on Azure](https://support.purestorage.com/bundle/m_cbs_for_azure/page/Pure_Cloud_Block_Store/topics/concept/c_introduction_121.html)|
+|[Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud](./configure-azure-native-pure-storage-cloud.md)|Enterprise-grade performance and reliability using Pure Storage technology in Azure with Azure Native experience|Azure native experience|Block|iSCSI|[Pure Storage Cloud on Azure](https://support.purestorage.com/bundle/m_azure_native_pure_storage_cloud/page/Production/Pure_Cloud_Block_Store/Azure_Native_Pure_Storage_Cloud/topics/c_azure_native_pure_storage_cloud.html)|
 
 ### Azure storage solutions
 
@@ -63,4 +64,6 @@ Providing the same consistent external block storage architecture in the cloud i
 
 - Learn about [Azure NetApp Files](./attach-azure-netapp-files-to-azure-vmware-solution-hosts.md)
 - Learn about [Azure Elastic SAN](./configure-azure-elastic-san.md)
-- Learn about [Pure Cloud Block Store](./configure-pure-cloud-block-store.md)
+- Learn about [Pure Cloud Block Store](./configure-pure-cloud-block-store.md)
+- Learn about [Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud](./configure-azure-native-pure-storage-cloud.md)
+