This document introduces Microsoft Azure and describes its infrastructure and services. It explains that Azure provides computing resources and services through a global network of data centers (the cloud) that users can access from anywhere via the internet. It provides infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), and software (SaaS) services that users can leverage to build and manage applications and infrastructure. The document demonstrates key Azure services like virtual machines, storage, networking, and traffic management.
How Cloudify uses Chef as a Foundation for PaaSNati Shalom
As PaaS is becoming more prevalent than ever, most PaaS environments and frameworks are still strongly opinionated and allow for very limited control and extensibility.
Extending a PaaS framework requires deep understating of its internals at best, and in many cases in not even possible.
Cloudify, a new open source PaaS framework, has taken a different approach, by using recipes (As opposed to heavyweight coding and platform extension) as means to introduce new application stacks to the PaaS layer. You can think of it as extending the recipe model of Chef to support application level concerns, such as orchestration, dependency management, multi-tier and multi-host deployments, monitoring and autoscaling.
This presentation covers the foundations of Cloudify, and how it leverages Chef as a key enabler for an open PaaS framework.
Amazon EC2 Container Service is a new AWS service that makes it easy to run and manage Docker-enabled applications across a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you define, schedule, and stop sets of containers. You have access to the state of your resources, making it easy to confirm that tasks are running or view the utilization of Amazon EC2 instances in your cluster. This session will describe the benefits of containers, introduce the Amazon EC2 Container Service, and demonstrate how to use Amazon EC2 Container Service for your applications.
Speakers:
Ian Massingham, AWS Technical Evangelist and
Boyan Dimitrov, Platform Automation Lead, Hailo Cabs
Zerto: Discover an easy five-step process for migrating virtual (VM) machines from VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V to AWS. See this through the lens of datacentre consolidation, disaster recovery to the cloud, and mass migration of VM data. Key highlights include how to replicate VMs and data without performance impact, testing the migration with no break in replication, and automation of the failover process.
Announcing AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate - January 2017 AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn about the capabilities, features and benefits of AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
• Learn how you can automate configuration management using AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
• Learn how to get started using AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
Find out more about:
• Techniques and tips to optimize trainingon Apache MXNet
• Infrastructure performance:storage and I/O, GPU throughput, distributed training, CPU-based training, cost
• Model performance:data augmentation, initializers, optimizers, etc.
• Level 666: you should be familiar with Deep Learning and MXNet
How Cloudify uses Chef as a Foundation for PaaSNati Shalom
As PaaS is becoming more prevalent than ever, most PaaS environments and frameworks are still strongly opinionated and allow for very limited control and extensibility.
Extending a PaaS framework requires deep understating of its internals at best, and in many cases in not even possible.
Cloudify, a new open source PaaS framework, has taken a different approach, by using recipes (As opposed to heavyweight coding and platform extension) as means to introduce new application stacks to the PaaS layer. You can think of it as extending the recipe model of Chef to support application level concerns, such as orchestration, dependency management, multi-tier and multi-host deployments, monitoring and autoscaling.
This presentation covers the foundations of Cloudify, and how it leverages Chef as a key enabler for an open PaaS framework.
Amazon EC2 Container Service is a new AWS service that makes it easy to run and manage Docker-enabled applications across a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you define, schedule, and stop sets of containers. You have access to the state of your resources, making it easy to confirm that tasks are running or view the utilization of Amazon EC2 instances in your cluster. This session will describe the benefits of containers, introduce the Amazon EC2 Container Service, and demonstrate how to use Amazon EC2 Container Service for your applications.
Speakers:
Ian Massingham, AWS Technical Evangelist and
Boyan Dimitrov, Platform Automation Lead, Hailo Cabs
Zerto: Discover an easy five-step process for migrating virtual (VM) machines from VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V to AWS. See this through the lens of datacentre consolidation, disaster recovery to the cloud, and mass migration of VM data. Key highlights include how to replicate VMs and data without performance impact, testing the migration with no break in replication, and automation of the failover process.
Announcing AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate - January 2017 AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides a fully managed Chef server and suite of automation tools that give you workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that gives you visibility into your nodes and their status.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn about the capabilities, features and benefits of AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
• Learn how you can automate configuration management using AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
• Learn how to get started using AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
Find out more about:
• Techniques and tips to optimize trainingon Apache MXNet
• Infrastructure performance:storage and I/O, GPU throughput, distributed training, CPU-based training, cost
• Model performance:data augmentation, initializers, optimizers, etc.
• Level 666: you should be familiar with Deep Learning and MXNet
Slides for an introductory Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) tutorial. The video (in Russian) is available here: https://youtu.be/w1hQFbHa9PQ
(GAM303) Beyond Game Servers: Load Testing, Rendering, and Cloud Gaming | AWS...Amazon Web Services
In this session, we go beyond online game servers, to explore other areas where AWS can benefit your game. First, we dive into using AWS to perform load testing of your game. We present architecture patterns, what makes a good load test, and real-world example scenarios. We then highlight emerging trends with cloud rendering, and show how you can integrate Amazon EC2 GPU-based instances into your game workflow. Finally, hear from Playcast, who brought their Cloud Gaming service to new players worldwide, by leveraging the G2 EC2 instance. Playcast share how they architected their streaming service to best leverage the cloud, things they learned, and demo their service streaming games from AWS.
One of the frustrating point for IT department is planning and implementing Disaster Recovery solutions. Are you sure your DR will function properly during a disaster time? Can I test my DR solution without taking downtime of my production systems for days? These are some of the daunting questions you must have faced.
During this session we’ll share with you how Microsoft simplify the Disaster Recovery solution with Azure. Be it your physical servers, Hyper-V or VMWare workloads; Azure Site Recovery handles all these in single portal with ease management.
Power your apps with a secure, scalable and durable back end on Amazon Web Service. Whether you are looking to minimize your operational overhead or to maintain tight control, AWS has a spectrum of database options for you to choose the right architecture for your needs. Learn about your options and how to choose the right architecture for your apps.
Deploying and Managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Amazon Web ServicesDLT Solutions
The Federal Cloud First policy mandates that agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. But how can you safely and reliably begin to deploy and manage your Red Hat instances at cloud scale? With IT automation, you can more easily deploy and manage your Red Hat instances in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.
In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how to:
Automate the creation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based AWS instances
Apply a security baseline to the instances
Deploy and manage an application
Regardless of where you are in the cloud adoption process, leveraging IT automation can help smooth the transition to the cloud. Join the webinar to learn how.
This slide set was from a talk I gave on June 13, 2013 at Windsor Hackforge (hackf.org).
It's aimed at current or aspiring software developers who are interested in learning about cloud computing in general, and how to get up and running on Amazon's AWS Platform.
Whether you're new to virtualization and cloud services, or already familiar with the concepts and looking to ramp up quickly on the AWS service stack, there will be some useful information for you in this presentation.
Aerospike AdTech Gets Hacked in Lower ManhattanAerospike
Aerospike's highly reliable and scalable database, using NoSQL and In-memory technology, presentation slides given at Stack Exchange on April 10th with NSOne and advertising technology luminaries.
AdTech Gets Hacked in Lower Manhattan
Stack Exchange, 110 William St 28th Floor,
New York, NY 10038
Running a High Performance NoSQL Database on Amazon EC2 for Just $1.68/HourAerospike, Inc.
Rajkumar Iyer and Sunil Sayyaparaju reveal how their team proved that cost-effective, high performance in the cloud isn’t a myth. They will walk through the 10-step process to efficiently set up high-performance instances on Amazon EC2 with Aerospike.
Find out more about Deep Learning in terms of
•AI
•Infrastructure
•Common neural network architectures and use cases
•An introduction to Apache MXNet
•Demos
•Resources
Slides for an introductory Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) tutorial. The video (in Russian) is available here: https://youtu.be/w1hQFbHa9PQ
(GAM303) Beyond Game Servers: Load Testing, Rendering, and Cloud Gaming | AWS...Amazon Web Services
In this session, we go beyond online game servers, to explore other areas where AWS can benefit your game. First, we dive into using AWS to perform load testing of your game. We present architecture patterns, what makes a good load test, and real-world example scenarios. We then highlight emerging trends with cloud rendering, and show how you can integrate Amazon EC2 GPU-based instances into your game workflow. Finally, hear from Playcast, who brought their Cloud Gaming service to new players worldwide, by leveraging the G2 EC2 instance. Playcast share how they architected their streaming service to best leverage the cloud, things they learned, and demo their service streaming games from AWS.
One of the frustrating point for IT department is planning and implementing Disaster Recovery solutions. Are you sure your DR will function properly during a disaster time? Can I test my DR solution without taking downtime of my production systems for days? These are some of the daunting questions you must have faced.
During this session we’ll share with you how Microsoft simplify the Disaster Recovery solution with Azure. Be it your physical servers, Hyper-V or VMWare workloads; Azure Site Recovery handles all these in single portal with ease management.
Power your apps with a secure, scalable and durable back end on Amazon Web Service. Whether you are looking to minimize your operational overhead or to maintain tight control, AWS has a spectrum of database options for you to choose the right architecture for your needs. Learn about your options and how to choose the right architecture for your apps.
Deploying and Managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Amazon Web ServicesDLT Solutions
The Federal Cloud First policy mandates that agencies take full advantage of cloud computing benefits to maximize capacity utilization, improve IT flexibility and responsiveness, and minimize cost. But how can you safely and reliably begin to deploy and manage your Red Hat instances at cloud scale? With IT automation, you can more easily deploy and manage your Red Hat instances in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.
In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how to:
Automate the creation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based AWS instances
Apply a security baseline to the instances
Deploy and manage an application
Regardless of where you are in the cloud adoption process, leveraging IT automation can help smooth the transition to the cloud. Join the webinar to learn how.
This slide set was from a talk I gave on June 13, 2013 at Windsor Hackforge (hackf.org).
It's aimed at current or aspiring software developers who are interested in learning about cloud computing in general, and how to get up and running on Amazon's AWS Platform.
Whether you're new to virtualization and cloud services, or already familiar with the concepts and looking to ramp up quickly on the AWS service stack, there will be some useful information for you in this presentation.
Aerospike AdTech Gets Hacked in Lower ManhattanAerospike
Aerospike's highly reliable and scalable database, using NoSQL and In-memory technology, presentation slides given at Stack Exchange on April 10th with NSOne and advertising technology luminaries.
AdTech Gets Hacked in Lower Manhattan
Stack Exchange, 110 William St 28th Floor,
New York, NY 10038
Running a High Performance NoSQL Database on Amazon EC2 for Just $1.68/HourAerospike, Inc.
Rajkumar Iyer and Sunil Sayyaparaju reveal how their team proved that cost-effective, high performance in the cloud isn’t a myth. They will walk through the 10-step process to efficiently set up high-performance instances on Amazon EC2 with Aerospike.
Find out more about Deep Learning in terms of
•AI
•Infrastructure
•Common neural network architectures and use cases
•An introduction to Apache MXNet
•Demos
•Resources
Azure en Nutanix: your journey to the hybrid cloudICT-Partners
Op zoek naar oplossingen voor een flexibel, schaalbaar, kostenefficiënt en toekomstvast datacenter? Ontdek dan nu de kracht van Microsoft Azure & Nutanix: twee moderne platformen waarmee u de voordelen van uw on-premise infrastructuur kunt combineren met de voordelen van de public cloud.
Presentatie van 30 april 2015
In this session you will learn a simple 5 step process for migrating VMs from VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V to AWS. Use cases include datacentre consolidation, disaster recovery to the cloud or mass migration of VM data. Key highlights of the session include;
How to replicate VMs and data with no performance impact, bandwidth requirements and networking considerations, configuring instance sizing, testing the migration with no break in replication and automation of the failover process.
Join us to learn how to make your next DR or migration project to AWS fast and trouble free.
Speaker: Stanley Lee, Manager, Systems Engineering Asia Pacific and Japan, Zerto
Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Chris Dufour
Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform made up of a growing collection of integrated services: compute, storage, data, networking and apps.
Azure is the only major cloud platform ranked by Gartner as an industry leader for both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services lets you build, deploy and manage applications in any way you like for unmatched productivity.
In this talk we will take a look at Microsoft’s cloud strategy and see how you can leverage PaaS in your environment.
Windows Server 2012 R2 at VMUG.org in LeedsSimon May
A brief overview of what's coming in Windows Server 2012 R2 that I delivered at VMUG recently. Details on virtualisation improvements, storage improvements, VDI and much more
This webinar session introduced the basics of Azure (topics below) allowing you to get online and start working in the Azure environment.
• Azure Portal Demo
• Azure VMs
• Azure Storage
• Azure SQL
• Azure Connectivity options to the Data Center
This presentation is for those of you who are interested in moving your on-prem SQL Server databases and servers to Azure virtual machines (VM’s) in the cloud so you can take advantage of all the benefits of being in the cloud. This is commonly referred to as a “lift and shift” as part of an Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution. I will discuss the various Azure VM sizes and options, migration strategies, storage options, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, and best practices.
Blueprints enable quick creation of governed subscriptions. This allows Cloud Architects to design environments that comply with organizational standards and best practices – enabling your app teams to get to production faster.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
5. On Premises
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cloud?
• Rapidly setup environments to drive business priorities
• Scale to meet peak demands
• Increase daily activities, efficiency and reduced cost.
14. Launch Windows Server and Linux in minutes
Scale from 1 to 1000s of VM Instances
Save money with per-minute billing
Open and extensible
Azure Virtual Machines
17. VM Gallery
A COLLECTION OF PREBUILT IMAGES FOR VARIOUS WORKLOADS
Windows Server 2012 R2 Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS CentOS 6.5
SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server Oracle Linux 6.4.0.0.0
Windows 8.1 Enterprise
SQL Server 2014 Standard Oracle Database 11g R2 BizTalk Server 2013 SharePoint Server Farm
Microsoft Dynamics
GP 2013
Zulu 8
SAP HANA
Developer Edition Puppet Enterprise 3.2.3 Barracuda Web Application
Oracle WebLogic
Server 12.1.2
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013
openSUSE 13.1
18. Virtual Machine Sizess
• General Purpose compute: Basic
• General Purpose compute: Standard
• Optimized Compute
• Performance Optimized
• Network Optimized
19. >80,000 IOPs
Premium Storage
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New generation
of D family VMs
DV2
SSD Storage
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Intel E5-2673 v3 CPUs
NVIDIA GPUs
Remote visualization
Compute-intensive + RDMA
Highest value
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fastest CPUs
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Highest value Largest scale-up
23. Disks and Images
Base OS image for new Virtual Machines
Sys-Prepped/Generalized/Read Only
Created by uploading or by capture
Writable Disks for Virtual Machines
Created during VM creation or during
upload of existing VHDs.
32. VMs in Availability Set Must Be in Same Resource
Group
Availability Set: 5 Update Domains, 3 Fault Domains
Update Domain – Host Maintenance
Fault Domain – Isolation from component failure in rack unit
Maximum of 100 VMs in a Availability Set
Avoid Availability Sets with Single VM
This eliminates notification for host maintenance operations
Availability Set Guidance
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-subscription-service-limits/
33. Load balancing
Load balancing
Multiple VMs share the workload via public facing endpoints
Internal Load balancing
Load balancing between VMs that don’t have public facing endpoints
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Speaking Points:
There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc.
Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices.
The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
Slide Objectives:
Explain the three established industry terms for cloud services
Speaker Notes:
There is a lot of talk in the industry about different terms like Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service.
Since PDC08 when we first announced the Windows Azure our focus has been on delivering a platform as a service offering where you can build applications. Where the platform abstracts you from the complexities of building and running applications.
We fundamentally believe that the future path forward for development is by providing a platform. In fact, as you’ll see in a few minutes, we believe that there are a number of new capabilities that should be delivered as services to the platform.
Notes:
There is a lot of confusion in the industry when it comes to the cloud.
It’s important that you understand both what is happening in the industry and how we think about the cloud.
This is the most commonly used taxonomy for differentiating between types of cloud services.
The industry has defined three categories of services:
IaaS – a set of infrastructure level capabilities such as an operating system, network connectivity, etc. that are delivered as pay for use services and can be used to host applications.
PaaS – higher level sets of functionality that are delivered as consumable services for developers who are building applications. PaaS is about abstracting developers from the underlying infrastructure to enable applications to quickly be composed.
SaaS – applications that are delivered using a service delivery model where organizations can simply consume and use the application. Typically an organization would pay for the use of the application or the application could be monetized through ad revenue.
It is important to note that these 3 types of services may exist independently of one another or combined with one another.
Slide Objectives:
Explain the differences and relationship between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS in more detail.
Speaking Points:
Here’s another way to look at the cloud services taxonomy and how this taxonomy maps to the components in an IT infrastructure.
Packaged Software
With packaged software a customer would be responsible for managing the entire stack – ranging from the network connectivity to the applications.
IaaS
With Infrastructure as a Service, the lower levels of the stack are managed by a vendor. Some of these components can be provided by traditional hosters – in fact most of them have moved to having a virtualized offering.
Very few actually provide an OS
The customer is still responsible for managing the OS through the Applications.
For the developer, an obvious benefit with IaaS is that it frees the developer from many concerns when provisioning physical or virtual machines.
This was one of the earliest and primary use cases for Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2).
Developers were able to readily provision virtual machines (AMIs) on EC2, develop and test solutions and, often, run the results ‘in production’.
The only requirement was a credit card to pay for the services.
PaaS
With Platform as a Service, everything from the network connectivity through the runtime is provided and managed by the platform vendor.
The Windows Azure best fits in this category today.
In fact because we don’t provide access to the underlying virtualization or operating system today, we’re often referred to as not providing IaaS.
PaaS offerings further reduce the developer burden by additionally supporting the platform runtime and related application services.
With PaaS, the developer can, almost immediately, begin creating the business logic for an application.
Potentially, the increases in productivity are considerable and, because the hardware and operational aspects of the cloud platform are also managed by the cloud platform provider, applications can quickly be taken from an idea to reality very quickly.
SaaS
Finally, with SaaS, a vendor provides the application and abstracts you from all of the underlying components.
And you get all the goodness shown in the previous slides across the WW
Slide Objectives:
High-level selling points of virtual machines.
Speaker Notes:
Both Linux and Windows are supported. It’s important to reiterate on this as many developers are still not aware of this.
Mention scaling at enterprise level using DSC, Puppet or Chef.
Emphasize on the openness – we are not forcing your to lock on Microsoft technologies. Instead, Azure is more open than ever. You can leverage your existing skills, tools and services, and Azure is providing more and more first-class supports for them.
Slide Objectives:
High-level selling points of virtual machines.
Speaker Notes:
Both Linux and Windows are supported. It’s important to reiterate on this as many developers are still not aware of this.
Mention scaling at enterprise level using DSC, Puppet or Chef.
Emphasize on the openness – we are not forcing your to lock on Microsoft technologies. Instead, Azure is more open than ever. You can leverage your existing skills, tools and services, and Azure is providing more and more first-class supports for them.
Slide Objective:
Explain workflow for provisioning VMs in the cloud
Speaker Notes:
You have three methods of starting this process: Build a VM from the portal, from the command line OR programmatically calling the REST API.
Once your choice of provisioning is made you will need to select the image and instance size to start from.
The newly created disk will be stored in blob storage and your machine will boot.
Slide Objective:
Explain a wide variety of images that you can choose from.
Speaker Notes:
First of all, you can choose from different Windows Servers and a variety of Linux implementations. [Click]
As well as pre-built images for different flavors of SQL Database and Oracle databases. [Click]
You can also choose from a number of first-party and certified third-party images for various application servers and infrastructural components. [Click]
And last but not least, if you are a MSDN subscriber, you also have access to Visual Studio images and client Windows systems such as Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 for your DevTest purposes.
Slide Objective:
Introduce different virtual machine sizes.
Speaker Notes:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/
Demo: Provisioning VM
Prerequisites:
A Windows Server 2012 is already provisioned.
Steps:
Open Ibiza portal and click the NEW button at the lower-left corner.
Show the short list of resources. Explain that I can directly create popular resources here such as a Windows Server 2012.
Click on the Everything link.
In Gallery blade, open the Virtual machines category.
Scroll down the view and show images of different types (refer back to slide 9).
Click on Windows Server 2012 R2, and then click the Create button in the overview blade. For non-Microsoft focused audience, consider to pick a Linux image instead.
Fill in the Create VM form and click on the Create button to provision the VM. Explain this will take a few minutes.
Open the already provisioned VM.
Scroll down the blade to show various of information available on the blade.
Click on the Extensions tile.
On the Extensions blade, click on the ADD icon to bring up the extension list. Introduce that VM extensions are installable components to customize VM instances.
Switch to slides to continue with VM extension introduction.
Slide Objective:
Introduce VM extensions.
Speaker Notes:
No matter how big the image gallery is, your projects may have specific needs that can’t be satisfied by standard images.
Some components such as anti-virus, configuration management agents are required on most machines for compliance and management purposes.
This allows use to innovate faster to meet with your project needs. And you have flexibility to pick and combine extensions for your goals.
Point out some of existing extensions:
Custom Script Extension, which allows you to download and execute PowerShell scripts.
Chef Extension and Puppet Extension for automated management at scale.
Symantec Endpoint Protection etc. for protection.
Docker (Linux only).
Visual Studio Remote Debugger.
Slide Objective:
Explain the differences between disks and images with VMs
Slide Objective:
Explain availability sets
Notes:
Availability sets tell the Fabric Controller to place VMs in the same set on different racks for faults and in separate upgrade domains for updates.
This essentially tells the FC not to take the guest OS down of all VMs in the same set for host updates.
Slide Objective:
Explain availability sets
Notes:
Availability sets tell the Fabric Controller to place VMs in the same set on different racks for faults and in separate upgrade domains for updates.
This essentially tells the FC not to take the guest OS down of all VMs in the same set for host updates.