1. Making Windows Azure Relevant to IT Professionals
Simon May, Microsoft

2. What IT Professionals Do
Implement
Monitor
Manage
Upgrade
Implement
Monitor
Manage
Upgrade

3. How can Windows Azure help the IT Pro?
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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
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4. Common Diagnostic Tasks
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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
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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.

5. Remote Desktop
demo

6. 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

7. How does it work (in a nutshell)?
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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
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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.

8. The Diagnostic Monitor
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The Diagnostic Monitor
Windows
Code
Disk Cache ~4GB
IIS
Log DM
EL 1GB
Log 2GB
PC 1GB EL PC CD
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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.

9. Monitoring Your Service
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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
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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.

10. 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.

11. Storage Considerations
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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
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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.

12. Local directory storage
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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.

13. Management tools
demo

15. Places to get more information
Windows Azure:
PowerShell / Azure offer:
Windows Azure MMC:
Windows Azure SDK:
SQL Azure:
Simon May
@simonster