Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds by Berg, Marcel van Den -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds

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1. An Introduction to Cloud Computing

The way electricity became a utility

The essential characteristics of cloud

Service delivery models Cloud deployment models Benefits of public cloud Barriers for the adoption of the public cloud

Challenges of hybrid cloud

Cattle versus pets Using cloud successfully Cloud exit plan Hybrid cloud to the rescue Introducing Microsoft Cloud OS Microsoft hybrid cloud use cases Summary

2. An Introduction to Microsoft Cloud Solutions

Cloud first Windows Server 2012 Microsoft System Center 2012

System Center Configuration Manager System Center Virtual Machine Manager System Center Service Manager System Center Orchestrator System Center Operations Manager System Center App Controller System Center Data Protection Manager Windows Azure Pack Microsoft StorSimple

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure Services Stateless versus stateful virtual machines Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Microsoft Azure Storage Azure Virtual Network Microsoft Azure Directory Services

Azure Preview Best effort versus reliable clouds Microsoft Azure is a best effort cloud Dedicated versus private virtual clouds Use case scenarios for Microsoft Azure

Test and development Temporary processing power Cloud bursting Windows Server and Data Protection Manager cloud backup SQL Server cloud backup StorSimple seamless backup SQL Server cloud replica DFS cloud replica Disaster recovery

On-premises and cloud feature misalignment Microsoft Azure security Microsoft support on Azure T-shirt virtual machines versus tailor-made virtual machines Microsoft Azure cost model Microsoft Azure service-level agreement Microsoft software support Other vendor software support Microsoft software license mobility Bring your own application license Trying Microsoft Azure Summary

3. Understanding the Microsoft Azure Architecture

A look under the hood of Microsoft Azure

Data centers and regions Zones Servers used in Azure Hypervisor used in Azure The Fabric Controller Red Dog Front End Fault domains Availability set Update domain Affinity group

Microsoft Azure Storage

Storing blobs, pages, and queues Storage account Disks Disk caching Containers Images Copy of blob storage Blob lease Protection of data Securing data Storage protocol Costs of storage Azure storage tooling

Networking

Azure networking under the hood Load balancers Cloud services IP addressing of virtual machines Virtual network Site-to-site VPN Azure ExpressRoute Virtual machine network interface Endpoints

Summary

4. Building an Infrastructure on Microsoft Azure

Getting started with Microsoft Azure

The new Azure Management Portal Creating a virtual machine

Understanding the restrictions of Microsoft Azure

Determining the naming convention for Azure components

Explaining Azure subscriptions

Azure Resource Groups

Adjusting the subscription name Microsoft Azure accounts Understanding Azure directories

Windows Azure Active Directory Premium Determining the Azure subscription to use Adding more administrators to a subscription

Deciding the most appropriate Azure region for placement Creating an affinity group Creating a storage account Creating Azure networks

Creating a virtual network Understanding virtual network gateways Creating a local network Using your own DNS servers

Deleting a virtual network Creating a Cloud Service

Deleting a Cloud Service

Creating a virtual machine Virtual machine extensions

VM access extensions Configuration extensions

Security extensions

Deploying Linux images using VM Depot

Using the Azure Management Portal to deploy VM Depot images

Naming convention for VHD files Understanding IP addresses

Virtual IP Dynamic IP Assign a static IP address to a virtual machine Assign a static public IP address to a virtual machine Using Reserved IP addresses for a Cloud Service Managing network traffic to virtual machines

Managing Network Security Groups Managing endpoints Testing virtual machine endpoints

Setting DNS server configuration Deployment and configuration using Puppet

Service healing

Installing additional software Creating a VHD to upload installation files Uploading files to Microsoft Azure Connecting the VHD to a virtual machine

Summary

5. Connecting to Microsoft Azure

Connection options Azure ExpressRoute Connecting to Azure using a point-to-site VPN Creating a virtual network

Creating certificates Installing the client certificate and downloading the VPN client

Support on Microsoft Azure Set up Multi-factor Authentication in Microsoft Azure Management Portal

Configuring Multi-factor Authentication using a phone

Enable a user for Multi-factor Authentication

Enabling IP Whitelist Multi-factor apps

Introduction to System Center App Controller

Prerequisites Using App Controller User roles in App Controller Connecting App Controller to Virtual Machine Manager Connecting App Controller to Microsoft Azure

Using IIS to create self-signed certificates Uploading the certificate to Microsoft Azure Configure App Controller to connect to Microsoft Azure

Authenticating a user to use Microsoft Azure Using App Controller Deploying a virtual machine using App Controller Uploading files to Microsoft Azure Installing the Windows PowerShell module for App Controller

Installing the Windows PowerShell module for App Controller

Summary

6. Managing the Microsoft Hybrid Cloud

Understanding Azure Active Directory Authentication models in Azure AD

Connecting an on-premises Active Directory to Microsoft Azure Synchronizing an on-premises AD with Azure Active Directory Synchronizing partially Deleting a domain Adding an AD account as a co-administrator

Importing and exporting data Managing Azure disks and images

Creating an image from a virtual machine Converting dynamically expanding disks to a fixed size VHD Managing disks and VHD files Disks and VHDs Azure TRIM support

Monitoring Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Health Dashboard Monitoring using System Center Operations Manager Monitoring via open source tools Shutting down virtual machines Monitoring Azure and on-premises infrastructures

Mobile management of Microsoft Azure Tips and tricks

How to reset the IP configuration of a virtual machine

Checking the usage of Azure resources Automation

Managing Azure using PowerShell

Installation of the PowerShell module

Managing Azure using command-line tools Microsoft Azure Automation Managing Azure using REST API

Exploring the service management API

Introducing System Center Orchestrator

Licensing and license mobility

License mobility for Microsoft software Licenses tied to physical sockets

Billing and cost management

Understanding the CSV

Summary

7. High Availability, Protection, and Recovery using Microsoft Azure

High availability in Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Failover Clustering support Load balancing Third-party load balancers Geo-replication of data Zone Redundant Storage Snapshots of the Microsoft Azure disk

Introduction to geo-replication Disaster recovery using Azure Site Recovery

Using Azure as a secondary data center for disaster recovery

Requirements Configuring Azure Site Recovery

Installing a replica Active Directory controller in Azure Using Microsoft Azure as a backup target

Step 1 – enabling Azure Vault Step 2 – creating a certificate Step 3 – downloading and installing the Azure Backup agent Step 4 – creating a backup schedule Recovery of virtual machines

Using Microsoft StorSimple

Restoring individual files Disaster recovery using Microsoft StorSimple

Backing up and restoring Azure virtual machines Summary

8. Migrating to Microsoft Azure

Premigration checks License mobility Migration options

Offline conversion

Migrating a Hyper-V virtual machine to Microsoft Azure

Moving a virtual machine from Azure to on-premises Converting a VMware vSphere virtual machine to Microsoft Azure

Migration using Migration Accelerator for Azure

Components of Migration Accelerator Installing Migration Accelerator Using Migration Accelerator Migrating with Double-Take Move

Converting an Amazon EC2 virtual machine to Microsoft Azure

Migrating using Disk2VHD and PowerShell scripts Using Windows Azure Migrator

Migrating Azure deployments between data centers and subscriptions Summary

9. Summary and a Look into the Near Future

The road ahead

A. Configuration Maximums

Subscription limits Virtual machine limits Storage limits Networking limits

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