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This book is intended for system administrators and other IT professionals who need to both design and implement an Azure-based cloud solution. With the help of this book, you will soon master the basic tasks needed to build a cloud-based solution.
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Microsoft Azure IaaS Essentials
Microsoft Azure IaaS Essentials
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Gethyn Ellis runs a small IT consulting and training company that offers services to cloud, virtualization, and database technologies. He is based mainly in the UK and has been working with clients in both the private and public sectors. He does, however, support clients in both North America and the rest of Europe. He has been involved in several projects in deploying a virtual machine infrastructure to Azure and other cloud offerings. He has also written Getting Started with SQL Server 2014 Administration, Packt Publishing. You can follow his blog at http://www.gethynellis.com.
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Ken Cenerelli is a developer who specializes in designing and creating strong, data-driven web applications using the Microsoft .NET framework. He is also a member of the Microsoft Azure Canadian Community Experts team. Prior to his career in computers, he worked as a journalist in the newspaper industry. As a public speaker on emerging technologies, he has spoken at conferences across North America.
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Preface
Cloud computing has been a buzzword in the IT industry for some time, and there are several cloud providers on the market. Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud offering. Microsoft Azure has evolved very quickly over the last few years and now offers a comprehensive set of services, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In this book, we will start by explaining what is meant by some cloud terminology. We will take a look at how we can deploy both Windows/Linux-based virtual machines in Azure. We will take a look at how to set up a virtual network, so that our cloud-based resources can communicate with each other. Much like an on-premises server, our cloud-based servers will need to be monitored for any potential issues, and we will take a look at how we can design cloud systems that are both highly available and fault-tolerant.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, discusses some of the terminology around cloud, from the services offered to some of the specific features available in Microsoft Azure. You should be able to differentiate between a public and private cloud.
Chapter 2, Creating and Deploying a Windows Virtual Machine, shows you how we can create a new Windows-based virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. We will take a look at how we can connect to and work on the virtual machine and how we can control the VM using PowerShell. Finally, we will see how we can convert an existing server and make it an Azure-based VM.
Chapter 3, Deploying Linux Virtual Machines on Azure, shows you how we can create and configure a Linux-based virtual machine in Microsoft Azure's cloud. We will take a look at the different flavors of Linux available, how we can create the virtual machine, how we can use the command-line interface and Putty, and how we can connect via RDP to work with Linux.
Chapter 4, Virtual Networks, shows you how we can create a virtual network in Azure. We will take a look at how we can approach moving an existing virtual machine to a new virtual network and what is needed to configure point-to-site connectivity for hybrid networks that allow you to combine your on-premises network with your cloud-based resources.
Chapter 5, Managing and Monitoring Virtual Machines, shows you how we can set up and collect the diagnostic information on our cloud-based virtual machine. We will take a look at what we need to do in order to store this information in the cloud and also how we can integrate the monitoring with on-premises tools, such as SCOM.
Chapter 6, Microsoft Azure and Active Directory, discusses the options that are available to you when it comes to making use of Microsoft Azure Directory Services. We will take a look at how we can create a cloud-based directory and discuss the options available for integrating your on-premises Active Directory with the cloud.
Chapter 7, High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Azure Virtual Machines, shows you the High Availability options that you have when configuring virtual machines in Azure. You have a number of options available to you when you configure both your Azure-based VMs to be highly available, including the ability to create availability sets. You can make use of site recovery to use the Azure cloud as a disaster recovery site for both your cloud-based virtual machines and on-premises Hyper-V virtual machines.
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
Cloud is a buzzword that has been bandied about the technology industry for the last few years, but what exactly does this mean. What does cloud mean for the people working in IT departments around the world? How will cloud affect the way you do your job, how you work, and what type of work you do? I guess these are questions that are yet to be answered fully, but in this book, we will try and give some meaning to the term cloud from a technology perspective, and then we will spend some time to take a look at the Microsoft's Azure cloud offering, and discuss some of the services you can get from Microsoft's cloud.
This chapter is intended to provide a grounding in some of the terminology associated with cloud computing, and then we will take a look at what we need to do in order to be able to work with Microsoft Azure and the services that Microsoft offers through this platform.
In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:
Understanding cloud computing
What do we mean when we talk about cloud from an information technology perspective? People mention cloud services; where do we get the services from? What services are offered?
The Wikipedia definition of cloud computing is as follows:
"Cloud computing is a computing term or metaphor that evolved in the late 1990s, based on utility and consumption of computer resources. Cloud computing involves application systems which are executed within the cloud and operated through internet enabled devices. Purely cloud computing does not rely on the use of cloud storage as it will be removed upon users download action. Clouds can be classified as public, private and [hybrid cloud|hybrid]."
If you have worked with virtualization, then the concept of cloud is not completely alien to you. With virtualization, you can group a bunch of powerful hardware together, using a hypervisor. A hypervisor is a kind of software, operating system, or firmware that allows you to run virtual machines. Some of the popular Hypervisors on the market are VMware ESX or Microsoft's Hyper-V. Then, you can use this powerful hardware to run a set of virtual servers or guests. The guests share the resources of the host in order to execute and provide the services and computing resources of your IT department. The IT department takes care of everything from maintaining the hypervisor hosts to managing and maintaining the virtual servers and guests. The internal IT department does all the work. This is sometimes termed as a private cloud.
