Mastering Microsoft Azure infrastructure services / John Savill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savill, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Windows Azure.

Cloud computing.

Service-oriented architecture (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Indiana : Sybex, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Understand, create, deploy, and maintain a public cloud using Microsoft Azure Mastering Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services guides you through the process of creating and managing a public cloud and virtual network using Microsoft Azure. With step-by-step instruction and clear explanation, this book equips you with the skills required to provide services both on-premises and off-premises through full virtualization, providing a deeper understanding of Azure's capabilities as an infrastructure service. Each chapter includes online videos that visualize and enhance the concepts presented i

Contents:

Mastering Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services; Contents; Introduction ; Chapter 1 The Cloud and Microsoft Azure 101 ; Understanding the Cloud (or Why Everyone Should Play Titanfall) ; Introducing the Cloud ; Microsoft Azure 101 ; Microsoft Azure Compute ; Microsoft Azure Data Services ; Microsoft Azure App Services ; Reliable vs. Best-Effort IaaS ; Getting Access to Microsoft Azure ; Free Azure Trials and Pay-as-You-Go ; Azure Benefits from MSDN Subscriptions ; Azure Open Licensing ; Enterprise Enrollments for Azure

Increasing Azure Limits The Bottom Line ; Chapter 2 When to Use IaaS: Cost and Options ; Understanding Why an Organization Wants IaaS in the Public Cloud ; On-premises Costs ; Azure Costs ; Comparing the Costs and Evaluating Solutions ; Understanding Costs, Options, and Licensing ; Creating VMs in Azure ; Using the Legacy Azure Portal ; Using the Preview Azure Portal ; Other Ways to Interact with Azure ; Azure IaaS-Supported Configurations ; Understanding Azure Architecture ; Azure Regions ; Server Structure in Azure

The Bottom Line Chapter 3 Customizing VM Storage ; Basic Virtual Machine Storage ; Understanding Types of VM Storage ; Using Storage Accounts and Types of Replication ; Caching in Azure Storage ; Large and High-Performance Volumes ; Using Disks and Images ; Leveraging Azure Files ; Azure Storage 101 ; Azure Storage Architecture ; Interacting with Azure Storage ; Performing a Bulk Import/Export ; Understanding StorSimple ; The Bottom Line ; Chapter 4 Enabling External Connectivity ; Cloud Services

Cloud Service Basics Using a Virtual IP ; Dynamic IP Addresses ; Using Endpoints and Load Balancing ; Endpoint Basics ; Creating Endpoints ; Deleting Endpoints ; Endpoint Access Control Lists ; Instance-Level IP Addresses ; Load-Balanced Sets ; Internal Load-Balanced Sets ; The Bottom Line ; Chapter 5 Using Virtual Networks ; Virtual Network Basics ; A Very Brief History of the Affinity Group ; Virtual Networks 101 ; Creating a Virtual Network ; Adding a VM to a Virtual Network ; Reserved IP for VM

Configuring DNS Using Multiple Network Adapters ; Network Security Groups ; The Bottom Line ; Chapter 6 Enabling On-Premises Connectivity ; Using S2S Virtual Private Networks ; S2S VPN Basics ; Creating an S2S Gateway ; Azure Gateway Internals and Maximum Speed ; Enabling a High-Performance VPN Gateway ; Using Forced Tunneling ; Connecting a Virtual Network to Multiple On-Premises Gateways ; Virtual Network-to-Virtual Network Connectivity ; Using Point-to-Site Virtual Private Networking ; Using ExpressRoute

ExpressRoute Fundamentals

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 6, 2015).

ISBN:

1-119-00329-6

1-119-00328-8