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Best practices from real customers: Deploying to Windows Azure Infrastructure Services
Sonny Macwan (Microsoft)Adam Salvo (Trek Bikes)Don Noonan (Blackbaud)Timothy Khouri (Jackson Hewitt)
MDC-B361Slide3
Agenda
INTROS
(5 MIN)
PROJECT OVERVIEWS
(30 MIN)
Q&A
(40 MIN)Slide4
Some production customersSlide5
Our speakers today…
Adam Salvo
DevOps Manager
Timothy Khouri
Lead Application Architect
Don Noonan
ArchitectSlide6
TREK BIKESSpeaker: Adam SalvoSlide7
Project overview
Company
description
Trek designs and manufactures a diverse range of best in class bicycles
Application
summary
Independent, hosted data center for the Ascend product offering and team
Workload
summary
Windows 2012, SharePoint, MSSQL 2012, FTPs/
sFTP
, Continuous Integration & Deployment
Supporting Infrastructure
(AD, Certs, DNS, WSUS)
Monitoring
(SCOM, Other, Custom)
Remote Desktop Gateway
Dev
/Stage
Production
CI & Deployment
(Team City)
Sql DB, SSIS, SSAS,
SSRS
Web Apps, Services,
and SharePoint
Sql DB, SSIS, SSAS,
SSRS
Web Apps, Services,
and SharePointSlide8
Best practicesUtilize your existing
knowledgeStart with what you know, test and adapt as neededCentralize managementPlan for
transient faults
Availability sets
Always On/mirroring, load balance web sitesEmbrace PowerShell and the APIStart with the portal, transition to PowerShellSlide9
“
Azure lets us spend
less time managing servers and infrastructure and more time developing features which provide value to our
customers.
”Slide10
BLACKBAUDSpeaker: Don NoonanSlide11
Project overview
Application
architecture
d
iagram
Company
description
A
leading global provider of software and
services
for
nonprofits
Application
summary
Distance learning automates the provisioning of virtual machines used for instructor led training
Workloads
running
Windows Server, SQL Server, Remote Desktop Services, Active Directory
Windows Azure
Cornerstone
enroll
connectSlide12
Best practicesLeverage group p
olicyLots of VMs? GPOs are your friendTop 5 policies for Windows Azure Virtual MachinesSecure your cloud serviceClouds are soft and fuzzy but your security plan shouldn’t beIsolate workloads. All-in-wonder VMs are not cool
If at first…
Try, try, try again - Put retry logic in your management calls
Be social - Talk to your VMs once in a whileSlide13
“Windows Azure Infrastructure Services helps Blackbaud customers spend more time on their mission rather than technology.”Slide14
JACKSON HEWITT TAX SERVICESpeaker: Timothy KhouriSlide15
Project Overview
Application Architecture Diagram
Company
description
Full-service
individual federal and state income tax return preparation
Application
summary
Next generation tax
p
reparation software
Workloads r
unning
Windows, SQL,
PaaS, IaaS,
VNETs,
Azure Service Bus, etc.Slide16
Best practicesDesign for horizontal s
caleYour complete “rig” (or “scale unit”) needs to be scalableHow to scale both inside a rig and outside should part of the blueprint How to manage and monitor “N” rigs should be plannedMeasure, redesign, repeatSimulate stress payloads early to reshape your design
Understand your eventual “cap” (or “throughput per rig”)
Ex: Are you limited by CPU, Disk IO, etc.Undersize, don’t “oversize” your rigScaling up a single rig to the max increases the damage of fail-over20 “medium” boxes cost the same as 5 “XL”Slide17
“Azure Infrastructure Services was the last building block we needed to make a great cloud application.”Slide18
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