A developer and IT Pro focused session on planning and moving the SharePoint Development to Azure Virtual Machines as presented at SharePoint Sri Lanka monthly gathering on 14th October 2015.

1. Moving your SharePoint Development to
Azure
Malin De Silva
SharePoint Specialist
Exilesoft
malindesilva@live.com

2. About Me
• Experienced with SharePoint 2007/ 2010/
2013
• Presenter at many meetups and
conferences
• A BIG Azure fan.

3. Let’s Get to Know
 SharePoint Developers?
 Experienced with Azure?
 Worked with Azure Virtual Machines?
 SharePoint Development Experience on Azure?

4. Agenda
 Introduction
 Planning infrastructure
 Azure VMs for SharePoint
 Capex vs Opex
 Cost saving tips
 Q and A
malindesilva@live.com

5. Running SharePoint on Azure
 How much bandwidth required?
 Develop from ANYWHERE
 Can scale up easily/ quickly
 Resources are not idle when VMs are stopped
 No concerns on local storages
 Updates automatically if allowed
 Backup and restore mechanisms

6. Our Team
 5 Members
 Full Trust Solutions
 1 SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
 5 SharePoint 2013 Development Environments
 1 QA Environment

7. Planning Infrastructure – Developer
Machines
Developer
Developer Developer Developer Developer

8. Planning Infrastructure – Developer
Machines
developer1farm
developer1setup
developer2farm
developer2setup
….
developermember1
developerowner1
developertestuser1
Developer
Developer
Developer
Developer
Developer

9. Demonstration
Creating a Network and a Virtual Machine

10. Planning Infrastructure – Test
Environment
Same
Domain
Controller
Database
Server for
QA
SharePoint
WFE
SharePoint
App Server

11. Azure VMs for SharePoint
 A series – General Purpose
 Basic: 300 IOPS
 Standard: 500 IOPS
 D/ DS Series – SSD + 60% faster
 G Series – Larger RAMs
INSTANCE CORES RAM DISK
SIZE
PRICE
A0 1 0.75 GB 20 GB $0.02/hr
A1 1 1.75 GB 70 GB $0.09/hr
A2 2 3.5 GB 135 GB $0.18/hr
A3 4 7 GB 285 GB $0.36/hr
A4 8 14 GB 605 GB $0.72/hr
A5 2 14 GB 135 GB $0.33/hr
A6 4 28 GB 285 GB $0.66/hr
A7 8 56 GB 605 GB $1.32/hr

12. Capex vs Opex
Virtual Machine A1 (DC) A5 (Developer) A6 (Database) A3 (QA)
No. of machines 1 5 1 3
Cost per hour
(USD)
0.09 0.33 * 5 = 1.65 0.66 0.36 * 3 = 1.08
Active hours per
month
220 220 220 33
Annual Cost
(USD)
237.6 4356 1742.4 427.7
Total Cost per Year (USD) 6763.7 ~ 6,040
EUR
Assumptions:
Each machine will stay started for 10 hours daily for 22 days a month.
QA server will remain up every quarter for 10 days with 10 hours per day.
We will keep creating full trust code through the year.

13. Cost Saving Tips
 Auto scaling or Automation
 License mobility
 Start with Windows Server installations

14. Demonstration
Auto scaling, Automating

15. Summary
 Potentials on cloud
 Better planning for VMs
 Cost estimations
 License mobility
 Auto scaling and automating

16. Questions?