A presentation on Windows Azure as a platform for Infrastructure as a Service. Presented in Melbourne, Australia as part of the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp in April 2013.

2. Introduction to Windows Azure
Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)
Loryan Strant
Office 365 MVP, vTSP, author
@TheCloudMouth
lstrant@paradyne.com.au
http://thecloudmouth.com
(Not a developer)

3. Session Agenda
 Windows Azure Virtual Machines
 Supported Windows Server Applications
 Virtual Machines and Cloud Services
 Virtual Machine Images and Disks
 Virtual Machine Availability
 Windows Azure Networking

4. Windows Azure Virtual Machines
IT Pro experience
Support for key server applications
Easy storage manageability
High availability features
Advanced networking
Integration with compute PaaS

5. Supported Windows Server Applications
• Microsoft server software support for Windows
Azure Virtual Machines
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 and later
• Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and later
• Microsoft Dynamics NAC 2013 and later
• Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2
SP1 and later
• Microsoft Project Server 2013 and later
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and later
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and later (64 bit)
• Microsoft System Center 2010 SP1 and later
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012 and
later
• Office 365 Directory Synchronization
• Windows Server Roles supported on 2008
R2 and later
• Active Directory Domain Services
Active Directory Federation Services
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory
Services
• Application Server
• DNS Server
• File Services
• Network Policy and Access Services
• Print and Document Services
• Web Server (IIS)
• Windows Server Update Services

6. A new scenario
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7. Cloud Services, Roles and Instances

8. Virtual Machines

9. Cloud Services with Virtual Machines
Multiple Virtual Machines can be hosted within the same cloud service

10. Images and Disks

11. Virtual Machine Sizes
Each Persistent Data Disk Can be up to 1 TB
VM Size
CPU
Cores
Memory
Bandwidth
(Mbps)
# Data
Disks
Extra Small
(A0)
Shared 768 MB 5 1
Small (A1) 1 1.75 GB 100 2
Medium (A2) 2 3.5 GB 200 4
Large (A3) 4 7 GB 400 8
Extra Large
(A4)
8 14 GB 800 16
A6 4 28GB 1,000 8
A7 8 56GB 2,000 16

12. Windows Azure Storage
Disk Storage
 Images and disks are stored as Windows Azure Storage Blobs
 Data is triplicated
 All existing storage tools just work

13. Virtual Machine Names and DNS

14. Demo: Azure Virtual Machine