As data centers are modernized to provide Infrastructure as as Service (IaaS) on premise and leverage IaaS in partner and public hosted clouds, customers will want guidance on how to implement resilient solutions in either environment and hybrid implementations. With PaaS, the focus of FailSafe has largely been on the application developer, but experience during the IaaS preview shows that many of the people we talk to about are IT Pros who are more interested in setting up the infrastructure that applications can be developed on. This session will focus on patterns and implementation guidance for delivering resilient IaaS implementations for that audience.

2. 1. Purchase
2. Install
3. Install
4. Deploy
5. Configure

4. Infrastructure Fabric

16. Fault Domains
• Failed component can’t take down
service
• Isolated infrastructure
• Physical hosts, racks
• Network equipment
• Two by default
• Role instances across 2+ fault
domains
Upgrade
Domains
• VM rolling upgrades, no availability
impact
• Logical grouping of role instances
• Five by default
• Role instances spread over upgrade
domains
• Deployment upgraded for all or one at
a time

17. Make VMs Resilient to Failures with Availability Sets
Get SLA by deploying
multiple instances in
availability sets
Ensure availability during
updates & maintenance
Continue to architecture
availability into the
application

18. LBLB
Role Status Role Status

22. Secure Point-to-Site Network
Connectivity
Windows Azure Virtual Network

23. 24
Primary
Volume
Snapshots
Backup, Restore & DR with StorSimple: Automated, Optimized, Reliable
Cloud Snapshots
• Backup copy of data volume created in cloud
• Changes to local volume automatically transferred
• Cloud snapshots mountable for restore
Benefits
• Backup now as easy as snapshots
• Fast restores from off-site backups
• Integrated, easy to test disaster recovery
• Eliminates tape
Primary
Volume
Virtual Tape/
Replication
Physical
Tape
Snapshot
Offsite Tape
Storage
Backup, Restore & DR Today: Inefficient, Complex, Laborious, and Risky

24. 25
Cloud
Snapshots
Enterprise Data Center 1 Enterprise Data Center 2
Connect Many Servers to Cloud
Storage and Scale Data Sets
with StorSimple Solution
Rapidly Recover to Any Data
Center, Location-Independent,
via Mounting the Cloud
Production Data Production Data

25. Backup datacenter data to Windows using
System Center Data Protection Manager
Backup and recover files/folders from
Windows Server 2012
Benefits
Reliable offsite data protection
Simple, familiar, integrated
Efficient backup and recovery
Easy set up
Your On-Premises Datacenter

26. SQL Server 2012 on IaaS: High Availability
High availability within
regions using SQL
Availability Groups

27. SQL Server 2012 on IaaS: High Availability
High availability within regions using
database
mirroring
Two approaches –
• Use Domain Controller
• User Certificates
Domain Controller Approach
Certificate-Based Approach

28. SQL Server 2012 on IaaS: High Availability
High availability across
regions using database
mirroring and log
shipping
Domain Controller Approach
Certificate-Based Approach

29. SQL Server 2012 on IaaS: Disaster Recovery
High availability and
Disaster Recovery with
Availability Groups across
on-prem and cloud

30. SQL Server Management Studio
Reliable off-site data backup
for SQL images
Easily restore databases
using VMs
Benefits
Backup and restore database
to the cloud

32. USN rollback NOT detected: only 50 users converge across the two DCs
All others are either on one or the other DC
100 security principals (users in this example) with RIDs 500-599 have conflicting SIDs

33. PowerShell for Automation and Advanced Management
Everything has an API – Automate, automate automate