Deploying & Managing DNN on Microsoft Azure Platform I have moved my site to the cloud and it is not performing in the same way it was doing on-premise. Now what? Did I provision the resources in the right way? What is the expected behavior for my app and database tiers? On this session we will share tips and best practices about hosting DNN sites on the Microsoft Azure Platform based on six years of experience deploying thousands of websites in the Microsoft cloud. From Southern Fried DNN September 2016 meetup https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/Southern-Fried-DNN/events/234130995/

1. September 2016

3. Host
Portal 1 Portal 2 … Portal N

6. Web/Files SQL VMs Redis
Websites
SQL Database
Redis Cache

7. • Full VM control
• Bigger VMs
• More IOPs (SSD, RAID 0, etc)
• More complex
• More management costs
• SLA with 2 VMs per tier
Recommendation: choose websites (PaaS), and if it doesn’t fit, then move to VMs (IaaS)
• No VM Access
• Small/Medium/Large VMs
• Autoscaling
• Less management costs
• Single instance SLA
• SQL DB is HA by default

9. SQL Database
SQL VMs
Reasons:
• Need to install a
component for the
webtier
• Want more disk IOPs
• Want remote access for
some reason
Reasons:
• Want to use SQL Express
• Want to use another SQL
feature (i.e. Reporting
Services)

10. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-what-is-a-dtu/
A DTU is a unit of measure of the resources that
are guaranteed to be available to a standalone
Azure SQL database at a specific performance
level within a standalone database service tier.
A DTU is a blended measure of CPU, memory,
and data I/O and transaction log I/O in a ratio
determined by an OLTP benchmark workload
designed to be typical of real-world OLTP
workloads
CPU
Memory I/O

13. https://github.com/davidjrh/dnn.appinsights

15. DNN Connect session: https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Microsoft-Spain-Events/DNN-Connect/Website-
monitoring-with-Application-Insights

17. https://github.com/davidjrh/dnn.azureadprovider
https://github.com/davidjrh/dnn.rediscachingprovider
http://dnn-connect.org/community/blogs/azure-web-sites-
sharing-experiences

19. September 2016