Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds电子书

Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds

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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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

Index