On Premises Storage Servers Networking O/S Middleware Virtualization Data Applications Runtime You manage Infrastructure (as a Service) Storage Servers Networking O/S Middleware Virtualization Data Applications Runtime Managed by Microsoft You manage Platform (as a Service) Managed by Microsoft You manage Storage Servers Networking O/S Middleware Virtualization Applications Runtime Data Hosting Models Software (as a Service) Storage Servers Networking O/S Middleware Virtualization Applications Runtime Data Business Model Managed by Microsoft Customizations

Flexibility of Azure Virtual Machines Cloud Management Portal >_ Scripting (Windows, Linux and Mac) REST API Boot VM from New Disk Published Standard Server

Images Available Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2012 Eval Windows Server 2012 Biztalk Server 2013 Beta Coming Soon SQL Server Standard, Enterprise & Web BizTalk Server 2013 Standard & Enterprise Open Source OpenSUSE 12.3 CentOS 6.3 Ubuntu 12.04, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 Windows

Per-hour license in the cloud Windows Server Application License Mobility (SA) Per-hour license in the cloud Microsoft Application s Review vendor support offering Linux and OSS Based upon vendor and product External Application s

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.

The provisioning story… Compute HyperVisor VM OS Data Cache ISO Platform Storage Repository Customer’s Storage Account Stock Images Provisioning Repository Add Server  Hostname  Password  … Cache.VHD Storage OS Disk Data Disk WA Agent

VM HV1HV2 Service Management API iDNS Name2

The Storage Backend

VM with persistent drive Windows Azure Storage

VM with persistent drive

Highly Durable Storage VM with persistent drive Windows Azure Storage

continuous storage geo-replication WEST DC EAST DC > 400 miles Windows Azure Storage Geo-Replicated Storage VM with persistent drive

What Does Persistent really mean? Windows Azure Storage

Windows Azure Your Data Center

Windows Azure Your Data Center

Windows Azure Other Service Providers Your Data Center

The disk layout and Windows Azure Storage OS (C) and Data Disks Host OS Other VM Temporary Storage Disk (D)

The Rap Sheet

Disk Pricing Transactions 1 Million for $0.10 Storage Space 100 GB for $7.5/month Usage Pay for what you use

Networking and High Availability

Protocols and Endpoints Port Forwarded Endpoints Direct communication to multiple VMs in the same cloud app Support for All IP-Based Protocols (VM to VM) Instance-to-instance communication TCP, UDP and ICMP, dynamic ports UDP Traffic Supported in WA Load-balanced incoming traffic and allows outbound traffic Custom Load Balancer Health Probes Health check with probe timeouts HTTP based probing, allowing granular control of health checks

Load Balancing and High Availability Load-Balanced Traffic (TCP/UDP) Availability Set

Virtual Machine Names and DNS Bring your own DNS server Use your on-premise DNS servers Deploy a DNS server in Windows Azure Use public DNS services Windows Azure provided DNS Resolves VMs by name within the same cloud service Machine names are modeled explicitly and registered in the DNS service Full control over machine names

Windows Azure Virtual Network

AttributeWindowsLinux Gallery ImagesYes – 2008 R2 / 2012Yes – Multiple “Bring your own image”YesYes – WA Agent required Virtual NetworkYes Set Hostname, username, password YesYes (Password optional w/ SSH) Install SSH KeysNoYes Configure Windows Update, Domain Join, WinRM YesN/A Install SSL CertificatesYesNo

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