This document discusses how to successfully deploy Windows workloads to the cloud. It begins with an overview of advancements in the cloud industry and customer migration successes. It then covers various Windows cloud migration scenarios and RightScale's migration methodologies. The rest of the document discusses evaluating applications for cloud suitability, segmenting application portfolios, supporting Windows workloads on RightScale, and RightScale consulting packages. It aims to provide guidance on developing a cloud strategy and migrating applications to the cloud.

1. How to Successfully Deploy Your
Windows Workloads in the Cloud
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Michael Peterson
Cloud Integration Engineer
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Justin Fenton
Product Marketing
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Agenda
• Cloud industry advancements
• Customer migration successes
• Windows cloud migration scenarios
• RightScale Migration methodologies
• Q & A
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3. The cloud grows up

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What a Difference a Year Makes
Goes OpenStack
Launched
GA
2012
Apr
Jun
Aug
Launched
Open Sourced
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Oct
2013
Dec
Adds Australia
Feb
Apr
Jun
Aug
Hybrid GA
Grizzly Released

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What Defines Business Value For You?
Increase Enterprise Agility
Faster Time to Market
Accelerate Innovation
Fail (or Succeed) Fast
Drive Operational Efficiencies
Cut Infrastructure Costs
Reduce Overprovisioning
Increase IT Efficiency
Expand Markets & Capabilities
New Geographies
New Capabilities
Web-Scale Applications
Increase Investment Flexibility
CapEX to OpEX
Reduce sunk costs
Reduce lock-in
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RightScale:
Strong
Cloud
Exper6se
7
10
5M+
10K+
years
clouds
servers
Scale
apps
to
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7. Windows migration success

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Real world Windows deployment scenarios
Data center transition
Customer
Shutting down existing data center, assistance needed in moving on
premises workloads to a portfolio of public clouds
Situation
Workloads
Migrating on premises Windows workloads to AWS with HA/DR in Azure
Improving operational efficiencies and reaching IT objectives around
avoiding vendor lock in:
Results
● Moving to an OpEx, pay as you go model
● Risk mitigation with vendor and geographic diversification
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Real world Windows deployment scenarios
Leading healthcare vendor
Customer
Situation
Workloads
Results
Migrating electronic medical records (EMR) and Dev/Test workloads
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Leverage Azure for Dev/Test IaaS environments in the public cloud
Deploying 17 .NET environments in Rackspace/OpenStack private cloud
Increasing workload agility:
● Accelerating innovation cycles with Azure dev/test environments
● Consistent management across public and private cloud portfolio
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10. Windows in the cloud

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Overview of RightScale Windows support
Windows OS and SQL Support
● Windows Server 2012
● Windows Server 2012 w/ SQL 2012
● Windows Server 2008R2
● Windows Server 2008R2 w/SQL 2012
● Windows Server 2008R2 w/ SQL 2008R2
Public cloud support:
● Windows Azure
● AWS
● Rackspace
● Softlayer
Private cloud support:
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OpenStack (KVM)
Rackspace Private
Cloud (KVM)
CloudStack
(XenServer, VMware,
KVM)
RightScale Server Templates customers have leveraged for migrating their Windows workloads:
● Database Manager for Microsoft SQL:
○ Configures a stand alone or high-safety mirrored pair of database servers.
● Microsoft SQL Server Witness:
○ Configures a SQL Express database server used to provide automatic failover for a high-safety
mirrored pair of database servers.
● Microsoft IIS App Server:
○ Configures an IIS web application server for use in a three-tier web architecture.
● Microsoft Active Directory
○ Configures a Microsoft Active Directory server or additional Directory Controllers
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Evaluating Applications for the Cloud
• Business impact
• Should we put this app on the cloud?
• What benefits will we get?
• Technical requirements
• Can we put this app on the cloud?
• How much will migration or build out cost?
• Security impacts?
• Choose the quick wins!
• High business impact
• Appropriate technical requirements
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Segmenting your Application Portfolio
Cloud-Ready
Elastic Web
Traditional
Nightmare
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• Segment the application portfolio
• Evaluate against ROI criteria
• Business Impact
• Technical Fit
• Focus on High ROI applications first

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Segment Your App Portfolio for ROI
ROI
Nightmare
• Monolithic
• Hairball
#rightscale
Traditional
• Legacy
• Standard
technologies
Elastic Web
Cloud-Ready
• Web architecture
• Greenfield
• Elastic design
• Designed for cloud

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Evaluation Framework Sample
App 1
App 2
App 3
App 4
App 5
Demand fluctuation / uncertainty
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Fast time to market
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Load Balancer: Session Affinity
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Application: Licensing
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Cache: Persistent
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Database: Working set size
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Security: Egress filtering
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Business Impact
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Technical Requirements
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CloudSight Consulting Benefits
• Align your cloud strategy with your business objectives.
• Identify target applications for migration to or initial build on cloud.
• Understand unique cloud requirements for your applications.
• Prioritize applications by cloud- readiness.
• Discover cost savings opportunities.
• Select the best-suited IaaS providers -- public or private.
• Design application architectures that reflect cloud best practices.
• Develop an end-to-end plan, from strategy to implementation.
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CloudSight Consulting Packages
Roadmap
Portfolio
Assessment
CloudSight:
Roadmap
How does cloud fit into
my corporate strategy
and business needs?
Architecture & Plan
CloudSight:
Portfolio Plan
Which applications are
best for the cloud?
Which clouds are best
for my applications?
What does cloud
success look like?
How do I map
opportunities against
requirements?
What are the
architectural decisions
to consider?
How do I measure it?
How do I prioritize?
How do I migrate?
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Execution
Engineering &
Onboarding
How do I best use
RightScale to build and
deploy my applications?

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High Level Deliverables
Roadmap
Portfolio
Assessment
CloudSight:
Portfolio Plan
CloudSight:
Roadmap
Strategic objectives
Architecture & Plan
Application
Assessment: 20 apps
Cloud Short List:
2 apps
Execution
Engineering &
Onboarding
Step-by-step Project Plan
Onboarding Scrums
Technical constraints
Key success factors
CloudRank
Heat Map
Architecture
Requirements
Custom Engineering
Architecture Diagram
Launch Support
High-Level Project Plan
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19. Q/A
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Discussion

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Next Steps
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Lay out your cloud strategy & determine how you will evaluate success
Identify quick win applications and use cases
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