This document introduces Microsoft Azure and describes its infrastructure and services. It explains that Azure provides computing resources and services through a global network of data centers (the cloud) that users can access from anywhere via the internet. It provides infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), and software (SaaS) services that users can leverage to build and manage applications and infrastructure. The document demonstrates key Azure services like virtual machines, storage, networking, and traffic management.
5. On Premises
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Servers
Networking
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Virtualization
Data
Applications
Runtime
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Applications
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6. Cloud Services hungry kya!
On Premises
Made at home
Toppings
Tomato Sauce
Cheese
Fire
Owen
Pizza Dough
Soda
Dining Table
Electricity/Gas
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Take and Bake
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8. Why the
cloud?
• Rapidly setup environments to drive business priorities
• Scale to meet peak demands
• Increase daily activities, efficiency and reduced cost.
14. Launch Windows Server and Linux in minutes
Scale from 1 to 1000s of VM Instances
Save money with per-minute billing
Open and extensible
Azure Virtual Machines
17. VM Gallery
A COLLECTION OF PREBUILT IMAGES FOR VARIOUS WORKLOADS
Windows Server 2012 R2 Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS CentOS 6.5
SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server Oracle Linux 6.4.0.0.0
Windows 8.1 Enterprise
SQL Server 2014 Standard Oracle Database 11g R2 BizTalk Server 2013 SharePoint Server Farm
Microsoft Dynamics
GP 2013
Zulu 8
SAP HANA
Developer Edition Puppet Enterprise 3.2.3 Barracuda Web Application
Oracle WebLogic
Server 12.1.2
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013
openSUSE 13.1
18. Virtual Machine Sizess
• General Purpose compute: Basic
• General Purpose compute: Standard
• Optimized Compute
• Performance Optimized
• Network Optimized
19. >80,000 IOPs
Premium Storage
GPU-enabled
virtual machines
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New generation
of D family VMs
DV2
SSD Storage
Fast CPUs
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Scale-up options
Largest virtual machines
Fastest storage in the public cloud
35% faster than D
Intel E5-2673 v3 CPUs
NVIDIA GPUs
Remote visualization
Compute-intensive + RDMA
Highest value
A
Most memory
fastest CPUs
G
Highest value Largest scale-up
23. Disks and Images
Base OS image for new Virtual Machines
Sys-Prepped/Generalized/Read Only
Created by uploading or by capture
Writable Disks for Virtual Machines
Created during VM creation or during
upload of existing VHDs.
32. VMs in Availability Set Must Be in Same Resource
Group
Availability Set: 5 Update Domains, 3 Fault Domains
Update Domain – Host Maintenance
Fault Domain – Isolation from component failure in rack unit
Maximum of 100 VMs in a Availability Set
Avoid Availability Sets with Single VM
This eliminates notification for host maintenance operations
Availability Set Guidance
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-subscription-service-limits/
33. Load balancing
Load balancing
Multiple VMs share the workload via public facing endpoints
Internal Load balancing
Load balancing between VMs that don’t have public facing endpoints
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External
Load
Balancer
Customer vNet
Internal
Load
Balancer Back end
Front end
Internet
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Speaking Points:
There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc.
Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices.
The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
Slide Objectives:
Explain the three established industry terms for cloud services
Speaker Notes:
There is a lot of talk in the industry about different terms like Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service.
Since PDC08 when we first announced the Windows Azure our focus has been on delivering a platform as a service offering where you can build applications. Where the platform abstracts you from the complexities of building and running applications.
We fundamentally believe that the future path forward for development is by providing a platform. In fact, as you’ll see in a few minutes, we believe that there are a number of new capabilities that should be delivered as services to the platform.
Notes:
There is a lot of confusion in the industry when it comes to the cloud.
It’s important that you understand both what is happening in the industry and how we think about the cloud.
This is the most commonly used taxonomy for differentiating between types of cloud services.
The industry has defined three categories of services:
IaaS – a set of infrastructure level capabilities such as an operating system, network connectivity, etc. that are delivered as pay for use services and can be used to host applications.
PaaS – higher level sets of functionality that are delivered as consumable services for developers who are building applications. PaaS is about abstracting developers from the underlying infrastructure to enable applications to quickly be composed.
SaaS – applications that are delivered using a service delivery model where organizations can simply consume and use the application. Typically an organization would pay for the use of the application or the application could be monetized through ad revenue.
It is important to note that these 3 types of services may exist independently of one another or combined with one another.
Slide Objectives:
Explain the differences and relationship between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS in more detail.
Speaking Points:
Here’s another way to look at the cloud services taxonomy and how this taxonomy maps to the components in an IT infrastructure.
Packaged Software
With packaged software a customer would be responsible for managing the entire stack – ranging from the network connectivity to the applications.
IaaS
With Infrastructure as a Service, the lower levels of the stack are managed by a vendor. Some of these components can be provided by traditional hosters – in fact most of them have moved to having a virtualized offering.
Very few actually provide an OS
The customer is still responsible for managing the OS through the Applications.
For the developer, an obvious benefit with IaaS is that it frees the developer from many concerns when provisioning physical or virtual machines.
This was one of the earliest and primary use cases for Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2).
Developers were able to readily provision virtual machines (AMIs) on EC2, develop and test solutions and, often, run the results ‘in production’.
The only requirement was a credit card to pay for the services.
PaaS
With Platform as a Service, everything from the network connectivity through the runtime is provided and managed by the platform vendor.
The Windows Azure best fits in this category today.
In fact because we don’t provide access to the underlying virtualization or operating system today, we’re often referred to as not providing IaaS.
PaaS offerings further reduce the developer burden by additionally supporting the platform runtime and related application services.
With PaaS, the developer can, almost immediately, begin creating the business logic for an application.
Potentially, the increases in productivity are considerable and, because the hardware and operational aspects of the cloud platform are also managed by the cloud platform provider, applications can quickly be taken from an idea to reality very quickly.
SaaS
Finally, with SaaS, a vendor provides the application and abstracts you from all of the underlying components.
And you get all the goodness shown in the previous slides across the WW
Slide Objectives:
High-level selling points of virtual machines.
Speaker Notes:
Both Linux and Windows are supported. It’s important to reiterate on this as many developers are still not aware of this.
Mention scaling at enterprise level using DSC, Puppet or Chef.
Emphasize on the openness – we are not forcing your to lock on Microsoft technologies. Instead, Azure is more open than ever. You can leverage your existing skills, tools and services, and Azure is providing more and more first-class supports for them.
Slide Objectives:
High-level selling points of virtual machines.
Speaker Notes:
Both Linux and Windows are supported. It’s important to reiterate on this as many developers are still not aware of this.
Mention scaling at enterprise level using DSC, Puppet or Chef.
Emphasize on the openness – we are not forcing your to lock on Microsoft technologies. Instead, Azure is more open than ever. You can leverage your existing skills, tools and services, and Azure is providing more and more first-class supports for them.
Slide Objective:
Explain workflow for provisioning VMs in the cloud
Speaker Notes:
You have three methods of starting this process: Build a VM from the portal, from the command line OR programmatically calling the REST API.
Once your choice of provisioning is made you will need to select the image and instance size to start from.
The newly created disk will be stored in blob storage and your machine will boot.
Slide Objective:
Explain a wide variety of images that you can choose from.
Speaker Notes:
First of all, you can choose from different Windows Servers and a variety of Linux implementations. [Click]
As well as pre-built images for different flavors of SQL Database and Oracle databases. [Click]
You can also choose from a number of first-party and certified third-party images for various application servers and infrastructural components. [Click]
And last but not least, if you are a MSDN subscriber, you also have access to Visual Studio images and client Windows systems such as Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 for your DevTest purposes.
Slide Objective:
Introduce different virtual machine sizes.
Speaker Notes:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/
Demo: Provisioning VM
Prerequisites:
A Windows Server 2012 is already provisioned.
Steps:
Open Ibiza portal and click the NEW button at the lower-left corner.
Show the short list of resources. Explain that I can directly create popular resources here such as a Windows Server 2012.
Click on the Everything link.
In Gallery blade, open the Virtual machines category.
Scroll down the view and show images of different types (refer back to slide 9).
Click on Windows Server 2012 R2, and then click the Create button in the overview blade. For non-Microsoft focused audience, consider to pick a Linux image instead.
Fill in the Create VM form and click on the Create button to provision the VM. Explain this will take a few minutes.
Open the already provisioned VM.
Scroll down the blade to show various of information available on the blade.
Click on the Extensions tile.
On the Extensions blade, click on the ADD icon to bring up the extension list. Introduce that VM extensions are installable components to customize VM instances.
Switch to slides to continue with VM extension introduction.
Slide Objective:
Introduce VM extensions.
Speaker Notes:
No matter how big the image gallery is, your projects may have specific needs that can’t be satisfied by standard images.
Some components such as anti-virus, configuration management agents are required on most machines for compliance and management purposes.
This allows use to innovate faster to meet with your project needs. And you have flexibility to pick and combine extensions for your goals.
Point out some of existing extensions:
Custom Script Extension, which allows you to download and execute PowerShell scripts.
Chef Extension and Puppet Extension for automated management at scale.
Symantec Endpoint Protection etc. for protection.
Docker (Linux only).
Visual Studio Remote Debugger.
Slide Objective:
Explain the differences between disks and images with VMs
Slide Objective:
Explain availability sets
Notes:
Availability sets tell the Fabric Controller to place VMs in the same set on different racks for faults and in separate upgrade domains for updates.
This essentially tells the FC not to take the guest OS down of all VMs in the same set for host updates.
Slide Objective:
Explain availability sets
Notes:
Availability sets tell the Fabric Controller to place VMs in the same set on different racks for faults and in separate upgrade domains for updates.
This essentially tells the FC not to take the guest OS down of all VMs in the same set for host updates.