Managing Microsoft hybrid clouds : benefit from hybrid cloud scenarios through this detailed guide to Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS) / Marcel van den Berg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Marcel van den, author.

Series:

Professional expertise distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Windows Azure.

Cloud computing.

Computer network architectures.

Web services.

Business--Data processing.

Business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

van den Berg Marcel: Marcel van den Berg is an experienced IT professional with 25 years of experience. He is well known in both the VMware and Hyper-V community for his sharing of knowledge, mainly via his blog. He currently works as a consultant for PQR in the Netherlands, deploying many Microsoft solutions such as Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, and StorSimple. His career started in 1990 as a system administrator for Unix systems. As his career progressed, he was later responsible for managing Windows NT to infrastructures based on Windows Server 2008. About 6 years ago, Marcel focused on server virtualization and moved to the role of a consultant. Marcel designed and built numerous infrastructures based on VMware and Hyper-V for midsized and large organizations. He has experience in working with numerous VDI, SBC, backup, and disaster recovery solutions. Cloud computing is one of the most exciting shifts we have ever seen in how we use IT. Marcel is really keen to understand new developments in cloud computing, especially on Infrastructure as a Service. In his current job, he has designed several infrastructures hosted on Microsoft Azure. By reading this book, you will learn from his experiences and save hours of work by preventing common mistakes. He shares a lot of his knowledge on his website, http: //up2v. nl. Marcel was awarded VMware vExpert for the help he has been giving the community since 2011. You can follow Marcel on Twitter at @marcelvandenber.

Summary:

If you're an IT professional, manager, consultant, or architect who wants to learn about hybrid cloud computing using Azure, then this is the book for you.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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

Chapter 2: An Introduction to Microsoft Cloud SolutionsCloud 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 StorageAzure 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 machinesMicrosoft 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; Chapter 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 StorageStoring 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; Chapter 4: Building an Infrastructure on Microsoft Azure; Getting started with Microsoft Azure; The new Azure Management Portal

Creating a virtual machine

Notes:

Includes index.

"Professional Expertise Distilled"--Cover.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 18, 2015).