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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

Overview of this book

Azure Stack is all about creating fewer gaps between on-premise and public cloud application deployment. Azure Stack is the logical progression of Microsoft Cloud Services to create a true hybrid cloud-ready application. This book provides an introduction to Azure Stack and the cloud-first approach. Starting with an introduction to the architecture of Azure Stack, the book will help you plan and deploy your Azure Stack. Next, you will learn about the network and storage options in Azure Stack and you'll create your own private cloud solution. Finally, you will understand how to integrate public cloud using the third-party resource provider. After reading the book, you will have a good understanding of the end-to-end process of designing, offering, and supporting cloud solutions for enterprises or service providers.

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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The Microsoft Azure Stack Architecture
The Microsoft Azure Stack Architecture
Cloud as the new IT infrastructure
Microsoft Azure Stack
Azure Stack's core management services
Using Azure Stack
Migrating services to Azure Stack
Summary
2
Planning the Deployment of Microsoft Azure Stack for Private Clouds
Planning the Deployment of Microsoft Azure Stack for Private Clouds
Solution design
Sizing Azure Stack
Authentication in Azure Stack
Securing Azure Stack
Compliance with Azure Stack
Preparing the deployment
Monitoring Azure Stack
Business continuity with Azure Stack
Billing with Azure Stack
Common design scenarios
Summary
3
Deploying Microsoft Azure Stack
Deploying Microsoft Azure Stack
Disconnected versus connected scenario
Deploying Azure Stack development toolkit
Deploying the multi-node Azure Stack environment
Troubleshooting Azure Stack installations
Monitoring Azure Stack installations
Connecting Microsoft Azure Stack
Defining Azure Stack role based access
Summary
4
Understanding Storage and Network
Understanding Storage and Network
Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct
Windows Server 2016 Software Defined Networks
Summary
5
Provisioning Virtual Machines
Provisioning Virtual Machines
Understanding deployment of virtual machines in Azure Stack
Resource Manager template
Deploying a VM using ARM template
Summary
6
Creating a Private Cloud Solution
Creating a Private Cloud Solution
Considerations for creating a Plan and Offer
Creating a Plan
Creating an Offer
Summary
7
Understanding Automation in Microsoft Azure Stack
Understanding Automation in Microsoft Azure Stack
VM extensions
Azure Stack hybrid automation
Summary
8
Creating PaaS Services in Microsoft Azure Stack
Creating PaaS Services in Microsoft Azure Stack
Microsoft SQL resource provider
MySQL resource provider
App Service resource provider
Summary
9
Managing and Administering Private Clouds with Microsoft Azure Stack
Managing and Administering Private Clouds with Microsoft Azure Stack
Naming management
Subscription design management
Resource management
Security management
Summary
10
Integrating Public Cloud Services with Microsoft Azure Stack
Integrating Public Cloud Services with Microsoft Azure Stack
VPN connectivity
Azure Active Directory
Docker/container services
Azure Container Services
Third-party Azure cloud services
Choosing your container solution
11
Creating a Hybrid Cloud Solution
Creating a Hybrid Cloud Solution
Marketplace management
Setting up hybrid cloud solutions
Internal project marketing
Summary
12
Infrastructure as Code – Azure Functions and Other Future Scenarios
Infrastructure as Code – Azure Functions and Other Future Scenarios
A simple hello world Azure Stack Function
Common scenarios for Azure (Stack) Functions
Possible Azure Stack future features
Summary

Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct

Azure Stack does not work with existing storage systems (based on iSCSI, fibre channel, or anything else). As of today, storage is cheap and there is no real need any more for expensive Storage Area Networks (SAN).

This is the main statement that was the basis for developing Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces and scaling out file server technology. But as you all may know, this technology is great, but in the first releases, it was not as reliable and performant as everybody promised. With Windows Server 2016, this changed completely as Microsoft decided to go with a different technology design: each Storage Spaces Direct member will have its own direct attached storage and S2D technology makes sure that the data is saved in a highly available multi-node environment. This provides a chance to fulfill the following statements:

  • It is simple to configure
  • It provides great performance with up to 4k random IOPS per server
  • It provides fault tolerance with...
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