1. BRK3396 Updating and servicing Microsoft Azure Stack
4/16/2018 9:59 PM
BRK3396 Updating and servicing Microsoft Azure Stack
Justin Incarnato
Principal Program Manager, Azure Stack
@justininc
aka.ms/azurestackupdate
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2. Agenda Hello and good morning Problem space What we built Managing updates Looking ahead, more information Show me

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Problem space
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Security is paramount Keeping it functional, adding functionality (Azure umbilical) What to install, how to install Where to download, what to download Who to call if there is a problem Ensuring business continuity for applications and services One package, one signature = Focus on other aspects of the business
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What we built
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Built-in, dependency-aware orchestration engine updates physical hosts, infrastructure VMs, Service Fabric & microservice applications, control plane No outside tooling or integration required Supports disconnected mode Operators determine maintenance windows & update installation time
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Microsoft managed software updates driven by Update resource provider, signed by Microsoft Cloud health checks, maintenance mode, live migration, storage rebalance and VD health, evacuate maintenance mode OEM managed driver updates driven by Update resource provider, signed by Microsoft Firmware updates managed by the OEM Hardware Lifecycle host (HLH)
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8. Managing updates 4/16/2018 9:59 PM
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9. Download and import update packages (OEM notification, Microsoft notification) Review important properties (publisher, name, state, size, prerequisites, support URL) Talk to your customers & set appropriate maintenance window (payload, workloads) Install update and monitor update progress Repeat Note: 3 month deferral policy, extends “sequential” maintenance

10. Azure Stack Infrastructure Administration
Get-AzsUpdateLocation
Retrieves Region Update Summary
Get-AzsUpdate
List Azure Stack Updates
Install-AzsUpdate -Update “Update Version”
Applies specified Update
Get-AzsUpdateRun -Update “Update Version”
Lists Update Run information for a specific Azure Stack update

11. Update package composition
<Ingest through blob service> PUPackageRelease_ exe, PUPackageRelease_ bin, metadata.xml
\AzureStackPack\
Package\
LCU\
<Windows KB>.cab <- 1.2GB N\
<Application>.nupkg <- 700MB
CustomActionPlan.xml
Metadata.xml

12. Metadata.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<UpdatePackageManifest>
<UpdateInfo>
<UpdateName>MAS </UpdateName>
<Version> </Version>
<PackageSizeInMb>1842</PackageSizeInMb>
<Description>MAS Update </Description>
<KBLink>
<MinVersionRequired> </MinVersionRequired>
</UpdateInfo>
</UpdatePackageManifest>

13. Updatelogs_<GUID>.json name : PreUpdate Cloud
name         : Update SeedRing SF Runtime
name         : Update SeedRing ECE
name         : Update SeedRing SF Runtime
name         : PreUpdate OEM.
name         : (DEP) Generate base images for hosts and virtual machines.
name         : (DEP) Generate host image.
name         : Update OEM S2D whitelist.
name         : Install Update.
name         : Update Node Sets
name         : Update SeedRing IBC
name         : Restart Storage Hosts
name         : Restart CA.
name         : Restart NC.
name         : Restart SLB.
name         : Restart SQL.
name         : Restart ACSFabric, WAS and WASPUBLIC
name         : Restart XRP FabricRing, PXE and ADFS.
name         : Restart Gateway.
name         : Update OEM manifest.
name         : Update Active Version on Node Sets
name         : Post Update Trace Collector.
name         : PostUpdate Cloud.

14. Looking ahead, more information
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Looking ahead, more information
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15. Monthly security payload Feature updates Scheduling updates using “automatic” mode Collected telemetry for runtime estimates @justininc

16. Show me (UI) Justin Incarnato 4/16/2018 9:59 PM
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17. Questions
What is the name of the file you import that expresses package details?
What are the two vectors involved in determining runtime?
How long is the update deferral policy?
Where do you import update packages from?
Thanks for your time this morning.

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