1. Migrating SQL Server to Azure the Right Way
Ben DeBow
CEO
Fortified Data

2. Specialties / Focus Areas
About Ben DeBow
Founder and CEO of Fortified Data
@BBQSQL
Specialties / Focus Areas
Scaling Systems
Performance Tuning
Private/Public Clouds
Infrastructure Design
BBQ – Smoking out
High Availability/Disaster Recovery
Health And Efficiency
Consolidated Architectures
Deep-dive Troubleshooting
BBQ Judge – Tasty Job
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3. Cloud Data Architecture Migrating to the Cloud Lessons Learned
Agenda
Azure Today
Cloud Data Architecture
Migrating to the Cloud
Lessons Learned

4. New services and capabilities weekly
Azure Today
132 Services
New services and capabilities weekly
Many services are only available in the Azure
Azure Stack – On-premise
List of services -
44 * 3 = 132
Azure Stack -

5. Azure Data Offerings
SQL Server
Other DBs
Analytics

6. Cloud Models
You can have these onsite and offsite – the difference is who is engineering the services and supporting them.

7. Need for increased capabilities Scale up and out Cost reductions
Changing Landscape
Time to market
Need for increased capabilities
Scale up and out
Cost reductions
Security
2 years ago was the first time companies started to consider the cloud on their own

8. What works for us? SQL Server on VMs Azure SQL Database
Largest support by applications
DBAs know how to support
Azure SQL Database
Minimal application support
Great features and capabilities

9. What do we need to support?
Current state
What do we need to support?
Application Type
3rd Party
Custom
Integrations
Database Support

10. What do we need to support?
Current State
What do we need to support?
Tier of Server
Workload
Compliance and Security
Scalability
High Availability/Disaster Recovery

11. Designing for Azure SQL Database
Future State
Designing for Azure SQL Database
More options
Elastic Pools
Geo-replicate
Dynamic performance
Enhanced monitoring

12. Upgrade and downgrade**
Future State
Designing for SQL VMs
110 Different VMs sizes
Know the workload
Regions availability
Storage availability
Upgrade and downgrade**
Size of VMs along with description of capabilities
Show the XLS - SQL VM Offerings.xlsx

13. DEMO Azure offerings VM list
Log into Azure and show some of the SQL Database options

14. Migration Approaches Lift and shift Re-write of the application
Least benefit from cloud services
Re-write of the application
Designed for the cloud
Modify existing application
Take advantage of some cloud features

15. Case Study – Financial Firm
Cloud Migration
Case Study – Financial Firm
Goals:
Non-production – cloud
Migrate DW and use analytical tools
Production DR to Azure
Leverage SQL Database
Size of VMs along with description of capabilities
Show the XLS - SQL VM Offerings.xlsx

16. Case Study – Insurance Company
Cloud Migration
Case Study – Insurance Company
Goals:
Eliminate 1 large data center
Increase service offerings
Decrease time to market
Reduce cost
Size of VMs along with description of capabilities
Show the XLS - SQL VM Offerings.xlsx

17. Azure environment
DEMO

18. Not every application benefits Design a multi-cloud/site strategy
Lessons learned
Not every application benefits
Design a multi-cloud/site strategy
Design for the full application stack
Naming standards
Know the offerings and map to the application workload
Size of VMs along with description of capabilities
Show the XLS - SQL VM Offerings.xlsx

19. Summary Not every application can live in the cloud
Design for a cloud outage – It happens
Rethink application design for cloud
Organizations need to change culture to fully benefit from a cloud strategy
Ben

20. Questions