To the cloud! This phrase seems to come up more and more often for organizations looking to reduce their SharePoint footprint and operational expenses in their on premise data centers. In this session Scott will give a brief overview of a few of the premier Infrastructure as a Service hosting providers for SharePoint, how SharePoint in the cloud stacks up against Office 365 and how to quickly get your SharePoint system built in a repeatable fashion for development environments.

1. To the Cloud!
Using IaaS as a Hosting Provider
for SharePoint
Scott Hoag

4. Pizza as a service…

5. Cloud Services
Storage
On-premises
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualizations
Servers
Networking
Infrastructure as a Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Storage
Networking
Servers
Virtualizations
Platform as a Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualizations
Servers
Storage
Networking
Software as a Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualizations
Servers
Storage
Networking
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Customer Manages Vendor Manages

7. AZURE REGION LOCATION
Central US Iowa
East US Virginia
East US 2 Virginia
US Gov Iowa Iowa
US Gov Virginia Virginia
North Central US Illinois
South Central US Texas
West US California
North Europe Ireland
West Europe Netherlands
East Asia Hong Kong
Southeast Asia Singapore
Central India Pune
South India Chennai
West India Mumbai
Japan East Tokyo, Saitama
Japan West Osaka
Brazil South Sao Paulo State
Australia East New South Wales
Australia Southeast Victoria

8. Fabric
Cloud services
Storage
NoSQL
Database
Blob storage
SQL
Database
Compute
Networking
Dedicated
connections
Virtual
network
Traffic Manager
Virtual machines
Azure: Comprehensive Cloud Services
Services
Tasks
Caching
Identity
Service Bus
Notification
Hubs
Media
Recovery
FrameworksInfrastructure
Automated
Managed resources
Elastic
Usage based1 2 3
North America Region
Asia Region
Japan Region
Australia Region
China Region
Latin America Region
Europe Region
Brazil S
Central US
S. Central
West US
East US
US Gov VA
N. Central
N. Europe
W. Europe
Japan E
Japan W
SE Asia
E Asia
Australia SEAustralia E
India Region
US Gov Iowa
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12. Security and Compliance

13. SharePoint Cloud Continuum
CONTROL
COST-EFFICIENCY
SharePoint (On-premise)
• SharePoint
Value Prop:
• Full h/w control – size/scale
• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale
Value Prop:
• 100% of API surface area
• Easy migration of existing apps
• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale
SharePoint (IaaS)
• Hosted SharePoint
Value Prop:
• Auto HA, Fault-Tolerance
• Friction-free scale
• Self-provisioning, mgmt. @ scale
• SharePoint Service
Office 365 (SaaS)

14. Running in The Cloud​™

15. Fundamentals
Functions and Features
Services and Service
Applications
Users
Content
Business Case

18. Azure Costing
$1458 USD OR $3478 USD OR
$6355 USD
Microsoft's SharePoint Stamp
Pricing
Calculator

19. SharePoint Support on Windows Azure
• Microsoft SharePoint Server
‐ SharePoint Server 2010 and later versions are supported on Azure virtual
machines.
• Microsoft Office Web Apps Server
‐ Running Office Web Apps Server on Azure is supported but with some licensing
limitations (for example, editing a document with Office Web App is not
permitted).
• Microsoft SQL Server
‐ Microsoft SQL Server64-bit versions of SQL Server 2008 and later versions are
supported.
• Azure Virtual Machine Readiness Assessment
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2721672

20. Start Small…..
Pilot != Production
Customize the stamps
License Mobility
Leap before you look

21. General Azure Configuration
Host cache OFF for data disks
Instance Sizing
Disk Striping Storage Spaces
Disk Size
Static IPs
Scale out – Not up

22. How slow can you go?
VM Type Designation IOPS Max IOPS
Basic Basic_A 300 4.8k (A4)
Standard A 500 8k (A4/A7-9)
D-Series Standard_D 500 16k (D14)
8k (D4/D13)
~6k ephemeral
DS-Series Standard_DS ~1.6k 50k (DS14)
G-Series Standard_G 500 32k (G5)

23. SQL Server Configuration
SQL Server Filegroups in use
SQL Server 2014 BPE
64k Allocation for SQL
Perform Volume Maintenance Tasks
for SQL Server Acct
AlwaysOn Availability Groups Single
Listener
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24. General SharePoint Configuration
Really not that different than you do it
today…
But don’t forget about that IOPS
thing…
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25. Create a SharePoint Farm
Demo

26. Browse a SharePoint Farm
Demo

28. Reference
Virtual Machine and Cloud Service Sizes for Azure
Microsoft SharePoint Server on AWS
Whitepaper - Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
on the AWS Cloud
AWS Simply Monthly Calculator
SharePoint Server Farm Resource Manager
Template
D-Series SSD VMs in IaaS
Microsoft Online Services – Where is my data?
Using Microsoft Azure Active Directory for
SharePoint 2013 authentication
Performance Best Practices for SQL Server in
Azure Virtual Machines
Wictor Wilén - Microsoft Azure IAAS and
SharePoint 2013 tips and tricks
azure-sdk-tools-samples on Github
AzureRM-SharePoint-Templates on Github
Planning for SharePoint 2013 on Azure
Infrastructure Services
Using SSDs in Azure VMs to store SQL Server
TempDB and Buffer Pool Extensions
Azure Services by Region
AWS Regions and Endpoints