The document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts and the specific features of Microsoft's Windows Azure platform, which includes various services such as infrastructure, platform, software, and storage as a service. It discusses architecture, including web roles and worker roles, along with Azure's storage capabilities and SQL Azure for database management. Additionally, it highlights considerations for migrating ASP.NET applications to Azure and the importance of caching and access control mechanisms.

1. Ravi Ranjan S. Karn

2. Topics
● Basic concepts.
● Windows Azure.
● Azure Storage Service.
● SQL Azure.
● Azure AppFabric
● Migrating an Asp.Net application on Azure.
● Q & A.

3. Basic Concepts

4. What is Operating System ?
● Is a collection of software
that manages computer
hardware resources and
provides common services
for computer programs.

5. What is distributed Operating System ?
● A distributed operating system is the logical aggregation of
operating system software over a collection of independent,
networked, communicating, and physically separate
computational nodes.

6. What is distributed System ? [contd.]
● A distributed operating system is the logical aggregation of operating
system software over a collection of independent, networked,
communicating, and physically separate computational nodes.

7. Conclusion
Abstraction
In all the system discussed now, every one of it involves
abstraction of underlying system to hide the detail from the
user using it.

8. What is cloud computing ?
● Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and
software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the
Internet) .
● There are many types of public cloud computing :
● Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
● Platform as a service (PaaS)
● Software as a service (SaaS)
● Storage as a service (STaaS)
● Test environment as a service (TEaaS)
● Desktop as a service (DaaS)
● API as a service (AaaS)

9. Windows Azure

10. Introduction to Windows Azure...
• An operating system for the cloud
• Reduce the complexity of internet scale applications.
• Designed to be scalable & available.
• A service running Microsoft datacenters.

11. Where Windows Azure stands ?
● Windows Azure is a Microsoft cloud computing platform used to build,
deploy and manage applications through a global network of
Microsoft-managed datacenters.
● It offers
● Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
● Platform as a service (PaaS)
● Software as a service (SaaS)
● Storage as a service (STaaS)

12. Terminologies
Web Roles
A web role is an ASP.NET Web application accessible via an HTTP or HTTPS
endpoint and is commonly the front-end for an application.
Worker Roles
Worker roles are background-processing applications and are typically found in
the back-end.
Role Instance
Role instances can be added or removed based on demand and allow
applications to quickly and economically scale-up or down when the need
arises.
Note : Windows Azure services may be comprised of one or both types of roles
and can run multiple instances of each type.

13. Windows Azure Architecture

14. Compute Service

15. Compute Service [contd.]
• A Web role instance can accept incoming HTTP or HTTPS
requests
• By running multiple instances of an application, Windows
Azure helps to scale application.
• Web role instances are stateless.
• Worker role instances can’t accept requests from the outside
world. Their VMs don’t run IIS, and a Worker application can’t
accept any incoming network connections.
• Instead, a Worker role instance initiates its own requests for
input.
• It can read messages from a queue and it can open
connections with the outside world.

16. Interaction of Web-role and worker
role.

17. Demo

18. Azure Storage Service

19. Azure Storage Service
• Tables – Provide structured storage. A Table is a set of entities,
which contain a set of properties.
• Queues – Provide reliable storage and delivery of messages
for an application.
• Blobs – Provide a simple interface for storing named files along
with metadata for the file.
• Drives – Provides durable NTFS volumes for Windows Azure
applications to use.

20. Azure Storage Service
• Blobs, Drives, Tables, Queues
• Designed for the cloud
• 3 replicas
• Guaranteed consistency
• Accessible directly from the internet via REST API
• .NET Client library supported
• Does not require compute
• Storage account drives unique URL, e.g.:
• https://<youraccount>.blob.core.windows.net

21. Table Service

22. Blob Service

23. Queue Service
• An account can create many queues
• Queue Name is scoped by the account
• A Queue contains messages
• No limit on number of messages stored in a queue
• Set a limit for message expiration
• Messages
• Message size <= 8 KB
• To store larger data, store data in blob/entity storage, and
the blob/entity name in the message
• Message now has dequeue count

24. Azure Drive (X-Drive)
• Access to a Local Drive in Azure
• Enables existing applications using NTFS to easily migrate to the cloud
• Essentially a Page Blob formatted as NTFS
• Remote Access via Page Blob Interface
• Durable NTFS volume [upto 1TB] for Windows Azure Applications
• Drives in the Cloud are only mountable by VMs within Cloud
• Mounted by one VM at a time for read/write
• A VM can dynamically mount up to 16 drives

25. THE FABRIC

26. The FABRIC
● The Windows Azure Fabric consists of a (large) group of machines, all of
which are managed by software called the fabric controller.
● It can communicate with a fabric agent on every computer, it’s also aware
of every Windows Azure application in this fabric.
● It monitors all running applications and also manages operating systems,
taking care of things like patching the version of Windows Server 2008 that
runs in Windows Azure VMs.
● The fabric controller depends on a XML-based configuration file that is
uploaded with each Windows Azure application to manage the number of
VM's required by the application.

27. SQL Database (SQL Azure)

28. SQL Azure
● SQL Azure Database provides a cloud-based database management
system (DBMS). This technology lets on-premises and cloud applications
store relational data on Microsoft servers in Microsoft datacenters.
● SQL Azure Reporting is a version of SQL Server Reporting Services
(SSRS) that runs in the cloud. Intended primarily for use with SQL Azure
Database, it allows creating and publishing standard SSRS reports on cloud
data.
● SQL Azure Data Sync allows synchronizing data between SQL Azure
Database and on-premises SQL Server databases. It can also be used to
synchronize data across different SQL Azure databases in different Microsoft
data centers.
● Note : SQL Azure has many limitations as compared to SQL-Server 2008
R2.

29. Restrictions with SQL Azure

30. Some points while migration of Asp.net
Application to Cloud.
● Please be careful if you are using session and application
variable.
● Minimize the usage of session variables.
● Use CDN (content-delivery-network) for jquery and other such
library.
● Configure HTTP compression in your application.
● Optimize the code processing.
● Take care database restrictions.

31. Why Caching is required
● One of the reasons why we require caching is because the
session data and application variable is non-persistent across
web-role VM's.
● Due to this there is no way to predict on which VM the client
request is made.
● Types of Caching
● Shared Cache.
● Window Azure Cache preview.

32. Windows Azure AppFabric

33. Service Bus
● Exposing an application’s services on the Internet is harder than it
might seem.
● The goal of Service Bus is to make this simpler by letting an
application expose endpoints in the cloud that can be accessed by
other applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
● Each exposed endpoint is assigned a URI, which clients can use to
locate and access the service.
● Service Bus also handles the challenges of dealing with network
address translation and getting through firewalls without opening new
ports for exposed applications.

34. Access Control
● The options is used if we want to include Active
Directory, Windows Live ID, Google Accounts,
Facebook, and more for our authentication purpose
like many modern application .
● Access Control simplifies this by providing built-in
support for all of them (and more).
● It also provides a single place for defining rules to
control what each user is allowed to access.

35. Q&A

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