This document contains a presentation about migrating workloads from on-premise environments to Microsoft Azure. It discusses the Azure IaaS model and how to create and customize virtual machines on Azure. It also covers topics like hybrid cloud, networking, storage architecture, availability and service level agreements. The document provides an overview of options for migrating existing virtual machines to Azure and the migration process.

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From On-premise to the Hybrid
Cloud with Microsoft Azure
Nicola Ferrini
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4. AZURE IAAS MODEL
HOW TO CREATE VM
CUSTOMIZE VM
CLOUD SERVICES
HYBRID CLOUD
Agenda

5. OPTIMIZED DATA CENTER
Well Managed
Infrastructure & Applications
CLOUD
Service Oriented
THE EVOLUTION
Silo-ed Efficiency Host / Collocate
Legacy Application Cost Reduction Re - platform
Legacy / Silo Application
New
Requirements Re - write
Additional Functionality Innovate Expand
New Functionality Scalability Burst out
Cloud Native Application Cloud Capability Cloud Service
Expanding Legacy
Platforms
To Modernizing
Workloads
Silo-ed Architectures
App 1
Expansion
Expansion
Expansion
App 2
Expansion
Expansion
App 3
Expansion
Managing
Platforms
Managing Services
OnPremises
Legacy
App 1
Silo-ed
Architectures
OnPremises
PrivateCloud
Leveraged
Infrastructure
App 2
Leveraged
Infrastructure
OffPremises
IaaS–SaaS-PaaS
Services
Service
Oriented
App 3
Identity
Application
Data
OS
Virtualization
HW
Storage
Network
Unix Linux
MainframeWindows
X
Owning
compute storage networ
k
ConsumingApp
Resource
silo#1
App
Resource
silo#2
App
Resource
silo#3

6. Create VM on the Cloud
Windows and Linux Images
Portability
Pay-to-Use
Customizable
Flexible
Choose your requirement
Extensible
More power when you want!
MICROSOFT AZURE IAAS

7. IAAS GALLERY
• Windows Server 2012 – 2012 R2 – v.Next
• Windows 7 / 8
• SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2014
• Biztalk Server 2013
• SharePoint Server 2013 Trial
• Dynamics 2013
• Visual Studio 2013
• Oracle WebLogic / Database
• OpenSUSE
• OpenLogic
• CentOS
• Ubuntu
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

8. PORTABILITY
ON-PREMISES
SERVICE PROVIDER
MICROSOFT
AZURE
CONSISTENT
PLATFORM1

9. CHOOSE THE RIGHT VM

10. High Speed Multi-core CPUs with large amounts of memory
Access to second RDMA capable 40Gbit/s QDR InfiniBand backend network
Designed for HPC applications
COMPUTE INTENSIVE SIZES
Size CPU Cores Memory Disk Size Max Data Disk
Standard_A8 Intel® Xeon® E5-
2670
8 at 2.6 GHz
56 GB OS = 127GB
Temporary=382 GB
16
Standard_A9 Intel® Xeon® E5-
2670
16 at 2.6 GHz
112 GB OS = 127GB
Temporary=382 GB
16

11. 60% faster CPUs than Standard A Series VMs
Large SSD-backed temporary drive
Better Core : RAM ratio - 1 : 3.5
Best for workloads that can leverage this drive for caching or replication redundancy
D-SERIES
Size CPU Cores Memory Temp Disk
(SSD)
Standard_D1 1 3.5 GB 50 GB
Standard_D2 2 7 GB 100 GB
Standard_D3 4 14 GB 200 GB
Standard_D4 8 28 GB 400 GB
Size CPU Cores Memory Temp Disk
(SSD)
Standard_D11 2 14 GB 100 GB
Standard_D12 4 28 GB 200 GB
Standard_D13 8 56 GB 400 GB
Standard_D14 16 112 GB 800 GB

12. Extremely large VMs
Extraordinary performance using Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3 family
G-SERIES VMs
Size CPU Cores Memory Temp Disk (SSD)
Standard_G1 2 28 GB 406 GB
Standard_G2 4 56 GB 812 GB
Standard_G3 8 112 GB 1,630 GB
Standard_G4 16 224 GB 3,250 GB
Standard_G5 32 448 GB 6,500 GB

13. Run Your PowerShell Script after
the VM’s creation
CUSTOMIZABLE

14. Change VM’s configuration
when you need more
power….without turn-off the
machine
FLEXIBLE

15. Antivirus Plug-in
VM Agent
EXTENSIBLE

16. Create a G5 VM

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ARCHITECTURE

18. Public IP Address
Public DNS Name
Internet Firewall
Load Balancing Boundary
CLOUD SERVICES

19. CLOUD SERVICES – ONE TO ONE

20. CLOUD SERVICES – ONE TO MANY

21. • Assign public IPs to VMs
• Direct reachability to the VM, no endpoint required
• Public IP used as the outgoing IP address
• Enables scenarios like FTP services,
external monitoring
• Quota: 5 Public IPs per subscription
Instance Level Public IP
Internet
DIP1 DIP2
Cloud
service
Reserved VIP
Azure
Load
Balancer
Internet

22. Public Port
Local Port
Protocol (TCP/UDP)
Name
PORT FORWARDING INPUT ENDPOINTS
Single Public IP Per Cloud Service

23. ENDPOINT ACL

24. 99.95% Monthly SLA for VM’s
4.38 hours of downtime per year for VM’s in an availability
set
What’s included
Compute Hardware failure (disk, cpu, memory)
Datacenter failures - Network failure, power failure
Hardware upgrades, Software maintenance – Host OS
Updates
What is not included
VM Guest OS & Applications, VM Guest OS Updates
Customer on-premises network connectivity and
intermediary Internet connectivity
AVAILABILITY & SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS

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DISK ARCHITECTURE

26. VM DISK LAYOUT

27. VM DISK LAYOUT

28. VM DISK LAYOUT

29. Manage Storage

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NETWORKING

31. Hybrid Networking
Secure point-to-site
connectivity
• Developers
• POC Efforts
• Small scale deployments
• Connect from anywhere
Secure site-to-site
VPN connectivity
• SMB, Enterprises
• Connect to Azure compute
ExpressRoute private
connectivity
• SMB & Enterprises
• Mission critical workloads
• Backup/DR, media, HPC
• Connect to all Azure services

32. Setup virtual private networks in the cloud
Manage as extensions of on-premises datacenters
Logical isolation with network configuration options
Create subnets, private IP addresses
Bring your own DNS
VIRTUAL NETWORK

33. DNS SERVER

34. VIRTUAL NETWORK VPN

35. It’s possibile integrate your on-premise infrastructure with
Microsoft Azure
VPN S2S required
Supported router (or Windows Server 2012)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj156075.aspx
Public IP from your ISP
For what?
Replica DC / FS / Web Server / SQL Server
Workload that require AD integration
INTEGRATE ON-PREMISES WITH CLOUD

36. VIRTUAL NETWORK VPN S2SM
AZURE
SITE A
SITE B

37. VIRTUAL NETWORK VPN AZURE TO AZURE
VPN VNET-VNET
West
Europe
West
US

38. Networking

39. Template designed by
MIGRATE VM TO AZURE

40. Consolidate Infrastructure
Reduce costs
Maintain the existing configuration of VMs
WHY MIGRATE?

41. Comparing Migration Options
Microsoft
SCVMM
Microsoft
VM Converter 2.0
5nine V2V
Easy Converter
Xtreme VM Migrator
Vision Solutions
DoubleTake Move
NetApp
Project Shift
Scale Small Small/Medium Small/Medium Medium/Large Large Large
Source Hosts ESX/ESXi 4.1, 5.1 ESX/ESXi 4.1, 5.1, 5.5 ESX/ESXi 4.1 -> 5.5 ESX/ESXi 4.1, 5.1, 5.5 Any Any (req. Array)
Source Guests Windows Windows & Linux Windows & Linux Windows & Linux Windows & Linux Windows & Linux
Target Hyper-V Hyper-V & Azure Hyper-V Hyper-V Any Hyper-V
VMware Tools Not Removed Removed Not Removed Removed Not Removed Removed
Guest Agent No No No No Yes No
Downtime Minutes/Hours Minutes/Hours Minutes/Hours Minutes/Hours Seconds/Minutes Seconds/Minutes
Automation PowerShell, SC PowerShell/MAT PowerShell (Full Ed.) SC Orchestrator PowerShell/MAT MAT4Shift
Costs Incl. with
SCVMM
Free
Download
Free or
Full Edition
Buy IP or Incl.
with consultancy
Per Migration
Cost
Incl. with
Array
Supportability Fully Microsoft
Supported
Fully Microsoft
Supported
5nine
Supported
Xtreme Consulting
Supported
Vision Solutions
Supported
Community/
NetApp
High level comparison for free & licensed conversion tools

42. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Free standalone tool for conversion of VMware virtual machines
MVMC 3.0
Standalone tool to convert and migrate
VMware-based virtual machines and disks to
Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure.
Benefits
Deployed with minimal dependencies.
Native support for Windows PowerShell for
powerful automation capabilities
Wizard-driven GUI for ease of use.
Simple to download, install and use.
Fully supported by Microsoft.
Supports the conversion of the latest Guest
OS’s, along with conversion from the latest
vSphere hosts, to Hyper-V hosts.

43. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Supported Guest Operating Systems Supported Guest OS’s1
Windows Server 2008 (x86/x64)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
Windows Server 2012 (x64)
Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
Windows Vista Enterprise (x86/x64)2
Windows 7 Pro/Ent/Ultimate (x86/x64)2
Windows 8 Pro/Ent (x86/x64)2
Windows 8.1 Pro/Ent (x86/x64)2
RHEL 5/6 (x86/x64)3
Ubuntu 10.04/12.04 (x86/x64)3
SLES 11 (x86/x64)3
CentOS 5/6 (x86/x64)3
Debian GNU/Linux 7 (x86/x64)3
Oracle Linux 5/6 (x86/x64)3
VMware VMs
Hardware Version: 4, 7, 8, 9 & 10
1. Microsoft Azure does not support x86 guests
2. Microsoft Azure does not support Windows Client guests.
3. Please refer to documentation for converting Linux guests – additional pre-requisite steps may be required.

44. Microsoft
Azure
5b. Copy VHD
to Microsoft
Azure Storage
5a. Connect
to Hyper-V,
Copy VHD/x,
Create VM
4. Validate
Disk
3. VMDK to VHD/VHDX Copy & Conversion
Converting a VM: The ProcessConverter
Hyper-V
VMware
vCenter/ESXi
Windows
& Linux
VMs
1. Connect to vCenter/ESXi & Select Target Guest
2. Checkpoint VM
& Uninstall VMware Tools

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