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Implementing Azure Solutions

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
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Implementing Azure Solutions

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Azure virtual machine types


As soon as you start working with virtual machines, you will notice that Microsoft offers lots of different virtual machines and is still expanding its offerings. The reason why Microsoft offers so many virtual machines types is easy to explain. Microsoft needs to support different kinds of workload. virtual machines are always the basement for every Microsoft service offered out of Azure or other Microsoft Cloud services. Virtual machines are also the core component for virtual appliances in Azure such as Hadoop, Microsoft Dynamics Navision, third-party network appliances, or open source appliances.

Microsoft currently offers the following types of virtual machines:

  • Basic A-series: For testing and development.
  • StandardA-series: All-round virtual machines for various workloads.
  • Compute intense A-series: Designed for high performance computing.
  • D and DS-series: For enterprise applications and applications for higher demand on compute power and temporary disk performance...