Introducing Microsoft Azure Stack

1. Microsoft Azure Stack - overview
ITCamp Community, Timișoara
March 12th, 2016

2. Tudor Damian
Executive Manager @ Avaelgo
Co-founder @ ITCamp & ITCamp Community
• Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP (Microsoft)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (EC-Council)
• Certified Security Professional (CQURE)
Contact: tudor.damian@avaelgo.ro / www.tudy.tel

3. Agenda
• The Microsoft Cloud & the need for Hybrid Cloud
• Azure Stack overview
• The experience
• Azure Resource Manager
• Services
• Cloud-inspired architecture
• Next steps

4. AZURE REGIONS

8. Hybrid Cloud
74%
ENTERPRISES BELIEVE
A HYBRID CLOUD
WILL ENABLE
BUSINESS GROWTH
Avanade, Global Study: Hybrid Cloud–From Hype to Reality;
December 2014
65%
MORE THAN 65 PERCENT
OF ENTERPRISE IT
ORGANIZATIONS WILL
COMMIT TO HYBRID CLOUD
TECHNOLOGIES BEFORE 2016
IDC Cloud Predictions for 2015; December 2014
6X
GROWTH OF IT SPENDING
ON PUBLIC CLOUD SERVICES
IS 6X OF OVERALL IT
MARKET
IDC Press Release:
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25219014;
November 2014

9. Enterprise Application patterns
Use Public cloud
as a Dev/Test
environment
Lift and Shift
existing
applications
from on-premises
to Cloud
Hybrid—backup
to Cloud, use
Cloud capacity for
Disaster Recovery
Build Hyperscale
applications and
services
Infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Network)
Websites Mobile Business ...
Clustering, Queuing, Brokering
My App
Operating System Services
SaaS
aPaaS
IaaS
VM and Container Infrastructure
AzureAzure Stack
Cloud scale Clustering, Messaging, Brokering
Multiple Runtimes
Service 1
Services
n= 1000’s
Dev Ops tooling
Service 2 …
Server
n= 10’s

10. Most Comprehensive Hybrid Cloud
HYBRID STORAGE StorSimple + Azure Storage
HYBRID BACKUP + DR Azure Backup + Azure Site Recovery
HYBRID DATABASE SQL Server 2016 StretchDB + Azure SQL DB
HYBRID CONSISTENCY Azure Stack + Cloud Platform System
HYBRID APP INTEGRATION Azure ServiceBus + BizTalk Services
HYBRID IDENTITY Azure Active Directory
HYBRID CONNECTIVITY VPN + ExpressRoute

11. Microsoft Azure
Public
Microsoft Azure Stack
Private | Hosted
Azure Stack
The power of Azure with the control of the datacenter

12. Networking Storage
Azure Resource Manager
VMs, VM Extensions, Platform
Images
Storage Accounts
Blobs, Tables, …
vNICs, GWs, SLBs, vNets,
ACLs…
|
System Center
Hyper-V Clusters
System Center
|
System Center
Azure Stack - Overview

14. Microsoft Azure Stack interface

15. Interface demo video (Ignite 2015)

16. *DEV AND OPS
Microsoft Azure Stack
Write once, deploy anywhere
Tools for Dev and Ops
Access to Azure ecosystem

17. *DEV, OPS, AND SERVICE ADMINISTRATORS
Azure Resource Manager
Unified configuration, provisioning, and updating
Reduced developer chaos
Integrated IT and business processes

18. Azure Resource Manager
Declarative template-driven
approach
Serves to orchestrate deployment
across different resources
Maps configuration to
resource settings
Central endpoint to:
Deploy models for cloud service
resources
Manage lifetime and global properties
of cloud services
StorageCompute NetworkApp Database
Describe Deploy Control
Gallery
ARM ARM
AZURE
DATACENTER
Consistency

19. *SERVICE ADMINISTRATORS
Services
Azure consistent services
Choice of resources
Network StorageCompute

20. *INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICE ADMINISTRATORS
Cloud-inspired infrastructure
Cloud scale design
Cost economics

21. Cloud-inspired infrastructure

22. Azure Stack – next steps
Start learning more about Azure Resource Manager
Look at Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Technical Previews
Try out Windows Azure Stack TP1
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-stack-deploy/
https://github.com/Azure/AzureStack-QuickStart-Templates

23. ITCamp Community
http://community.itcamp.ro
http://www.itcamp.ro