In Part 4 of our Windows Azure IaaS series I have a great conversation with Microsoft MVP Jeffrey Palermo We compare the features and benefits of Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service. We chat candidly about user experiences between the three as well as which capabilities stand out in Azure vs. its competitors. Enjoy the episode!
I just found out about this and had to pass it on! John and I have been colleagues for years and I am certain that this will be an incredible training. This intensive one week event is designed to give attendees the skills required to architect, deploy and manage a Microsoft centric environment. By the end of the event you will understand all the capabilities available, how they work best together and be able to take your environments to new levels of functionality. While there is a cost to the training, I think it was well worth it! You can learn more and register here: Master Class Certified training session in Dallas on 7/8/2013
One of the more common workloads the cloud handles fantastically is for your web service. Whether you want to have your website external or internal facing using Azure web services can help to alleviate the workload on your local infrastructure. The web could even help alleviate even some of the workload for your websites. So for the post today I wanted to take you through how to deploy a web application with load balanced web servers. Also this will be the Instructor led lab I will be delivering at TechEd: Join Me at TechEd North America and Come to my Session: June 3-6 New Orleans!
In the following guide you are going to learn how to deploy a simple ASP.NET MVC 4 Web application to a Web server hosted in Windows Azure, using SQL Server and configuring load balancing. The guide below is geared to Windows Server 2012 and IIS (Internet Information Services), however you can also do the lab with Apache and Linux. Take a look at this guide here: HOL-IntroToWindowsAzureVirtualMachinesLinux.
Once you've complete this step-by-step guide, you'll have a cloud-based virtual SQL Server 2012 lab environment that you can use to explore the other new DBA and BI capabilities in this latest version of SQL Server!
TechEd 2013 North America will take place June 3-6 in New Orleans. TechEd is Microsoft’s premiere conference for IT Professionals and Enterprise Developers, offering the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft's products, solutions, tools, and services.
I have had the privilege to speak at TechEd the last couple of years and this year I was also able to get a session
One of the key scenarios that you can leverage the cloud for is backup and that is what we are going to take a look in this post. Backup is something that should be doing everyday in your datacenter. Regardless of the size of your datacenter, you backup your data. You can backup your data to a variety of locations and media. Are you prepared if you lose your backup volumes or misplace the tape or if disaster strikes?
You can now include the cloud into your thought process as a storage destination for your data. It is secure and easy scenario to dip your toe into using the cloud. The cloud backups instantly provide you a disaster recovery environment and a great place to store your data. These tools provide you automated backups that are offsite.
Being able to protect your Private cloud is one of the more important things you can do. With so many moving parts how do you approach this. If you are leveraging System Center 2012 for the many other components of your infrastructure, than I would highly recommend you look at Data Protection Manager (DPM)for two reasons.
While DPM can protect a variety of workloads from SQL, SharePoint, Exchange bulk of your of the workloads in your cloud is going to virtualized. DPM is fantastic at protecting your Hyper-V hosts and their virtual guests that are running on them. Today’s post will focus on the protecting your virtual infrastructure.
In Part 3 of the Windows Azure IaaS series I discuss with Keith Mayer common scenarios in which IT Pros may use Windows Azure as a hybrid solution between their on-premise and cloud service needs. Tune in as we discuss disaster recovery and storage as well as how to migrate your SharePoint environment to a VM running on Azure.
Here is part 2 of the Windows Azure IaaS series and in this episode I take a look at the top Windows Azure Virtual Machines FAQs and common gotchas with Hari Dogiparthi
I kick off a 8 part Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) series and in today’s episode he welcomes Chief Technical Evangelist for the Cloud, Brian Prince to the show as they give us an overview of Microsoft’s IaaS platform, aka Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Tune in as
When you start to think of building a private cloud into your datacenters, you might naturally think you need run out and buy a SAN. While you still may want to go buy a SAN, with Windows Server 2012 you do not necessarily need to. In Windows Server 2012 there has been a tremendous amount of improvement done to the storage capabilities. Specifically you now can have continuously available file shares on your cluster servers. This is mainly due to the new SMB 3.0 protocol built-in to the server, it really has made storage a first class citizen in Windows Server 2012. So for todays post I am going to take a look at how to build a Windows Server 2012 storage environment using Storage Pools and inexpensive Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) disks to provide the necessary storage backend for your private cloud infrastructure.
When you are working with Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V you will want to keep an eye on your servers to make sure they are running properly and they are maintained. In this post I am going to show some of the things that are built-in the server, specifically with PowerShell. More importantly you are going to learn about what are some of the capabilities with when you introduce System Center 2012 into the mix as well.