Making Windows Azure Relevant to IT Professionals Simon May, Microsoft

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How can Windows Azure help the IT Pro? Tech Ed North America 2010 7/23/2019 10:36 PM How can Windows Azure help the IT Pro? Cloud Platform IT Pro Responsibilities Deploying Applications Managing Application Drives Memory OS Patches Networking Physical Hardware Drives Memory OS Patches Networking Physical Hardware Net Patches © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Common Diagnostic Tasks Tech Ed North America 2010 7/23/2019 10:36 PM Common Diagnostic Tasks Performance measurement Resource usage Troubleshooting and debugging Problem detection Quality of Service Metrics Capacity planning Traffic analysis (users, views, peak times) Billing Auditing © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Remote Desktop demo

Windows Azure Connect IPsec protected Endpoint software Bi-direction IPv6 DNS Resolution MYPC MYPC.thingy.com Interconnections Win 7 & Svr 2k8 Uses HTTPS to communicate (port 443) Also creates firewall rule for ICMPv6 comms. Secure, all traffic is encrypted Simple IPv6 configuration Allows Azure roles to be domain joined Allows remote management Allows communication to existing on premise solutions

How does it work (in a nutshell)? Tech Ed North America 2010 7/23/2019 10:36 PM How does it work (in a nutshell)? Role Instance Starts Diagnostic Monitor Starts Monitor is configured Imperatively at Start time Remotely any time Monitor buffers data locally User can set a quota (FIFO) User initiates transfer to storage Scheduled or On Demand Role Instance Role Diagnostic Monitor Local directory storage © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

The Diagnostic Monitor Tech Ed North America 2010 7/23/2019 10:36 PM The Diagnostic Monitor Windows Code Disk Cache ~4GB IIS Log DM EL 1GB Log 2GB PC 1GB EL PC CD © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Monitoring Your Service Tech Ed North America 2010 7/23/2019 10:36 PM Monitoring Your Service How do I get to my monitoring data? On demand On a schedule When transferring data, you may specify Time range for transfer Filter Level (Event Logs, Trace Warning vs. Trace Error) Source (Event log, IIS, Dumps, etc…)’ The transfer is stored by Deployment ID Instance © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

All of this can be configured either At start time Good: Automatically configured when you scale up. Bad: If you want to change it you have to redeploy Remotely using the Windows Azure Diagnostics API Good: Can change information gathered at any time Good: You don’t have to dev anything Bad: On a per-instance basis, so when scaling, need to update monitors on the new instances.

Storage Considerations Tech Ed North America 2010 7/23/2019 10:36 PM Storage Considerations Standard costs apply for transactions, storage & bandwidth Data Retention Local buffers are aged out by the Diagnostic Monitor according to configurable quotas You control data retention for data in storage Query Performance on Tabular Data Partitioned by high-order bits of the tick count Query by time is efficient Filter by verbosity level at transfer time © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Local directory storage Tech Ed North America 2010 7/23/2019 10:36 PM Remote Configuration Poll Interval Role Role Instance Diagnostic Monitor Local directory storage © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Management tools demo

Places to get more information Windows Azure: http://bit.ly/azureoffer PowerShell / Azure offer: http://bit.ly/lAycAU Windows Azure MMC: http://bit.ly/jVSvCs Windows Azure SDK: http://bit.ly/jUwIdJ SQL Azure: http://bit.ly/smsqlazure Simon May http://simon-may.com @simonster simon.may@microsoft.com