azure for the itpro

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Windows Azure for the

IT Pro

Enrique LimaPrincipal ConsultantThinkALM

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Agenda

• Azure Overview• Governance• Deploying Azure Solutions• Managing Azure Solutions• Monitoring Azure Solutions• Extending to and from Azure

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Azure Overview

ON-PREMISES LOB ApplicationsComposite applications

Developer ExperienceUse existing skills and tools.

Compute Storage Management Relational data Management Connectivity Access control

AppFabric

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Governance

• What on earth does this mean?• Corporate Governance for Azure?• Are you kidding me?!?

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Deploying Azure Solutions

• Deployment through the Management Portal

• Deployment using PowerShell• Working with VM Role

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Deployment through the Management Portal

demo

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Deployment using PowerShell

• Windows Azure Service Management CmdLets

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Working with VM RoleIm

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· Install integration components· Install software applications· Build adapter· Configure firewall· Generalize image

· Define VM role· Reference image· Specify certificates and

destination store· Configure number of server

instances· Configure certificate

thumbprints· Specify configuration settings

Deploy

Upload Image to Repository

Upload Service Package and

Configuration File

Upload Certificates to Certificate Store

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Managing Azure SolutionsPackaged Software

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Data

Applications

Runtime

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Infrastructure(as a Service)

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Data

Applications

Runtime

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anage

Platform(as a Service)

Managed b

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Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Applications

Runtime

Data

Software(as a Service)

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Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Applications

Runtime

Data

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Managing Azure Solutions

• What do we Manage?• Windows Azure MMC• 3rd Party Tools

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What do we Manage?

• Storage• Compute• Access

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Windows Azure MMC

demo

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Monitoring Azure Solutions

• Windows Azure Diagnostics• Windows Azure Monitoring MP for

SCOM• Using RDP

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Windows Azure Diagnostics

• Know the volume of data• Define Transfers• Monitor Storage!

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Windows Azure Monitoring MP for SCOM

Discovers Windows Azure applications.

Provides status of each role instances

Collects and monitors performance information.

Collects and monitors Windows events.

Collects and monitors the .NET Framework trace messages from each role instance.

Grooms performance, event, and the .NET

Framework trace data from Windows Azure

storage account.

Changes the number of role instances via a task

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Using RDP

• IIS Manager• Windows Explorer• Performance and Reliability Monitor• Event Viewer

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Extending to and from Azure

• Challenges• Access Control

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Challenges

• How do you integrate with components outside your corporate network?

• How do you expose your software to users outside of your organization?– Can they use their existing identities? Social identities?– What about smaller, non-enterprise customers?

• How do you reduce latency and increase performance?• <the list goes on…>

Caching* Service Bus Access Control

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Access Control

• Identity Federation - ACS• Azure Connect

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Identity Federation - ACS

• Used to authenticate and authorize users• Integration Single Sign On and centralized

authorization into your web applications• Standards-based identity providers– Enterprise directories (e.g. Active Directory

Federation Server v2.0)– Web identities (e.g. Windows Live ID, Google,

Yahoo!, and Facebook)

OCT19-21

Azure Connect

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