Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure IaaS Chapter Goal: This chapter will provide a general introduction to basic Azure IaaS components
No of pages: 25
Sub -Topics
1. What is new in Azure Resource Manager(ARM model)
2. IaaS compute services 1. VMs
2. VM Scale sets
3. Dev test labs
3. Storage in IaaS
1. VM disks 2. Managed and unmanaged disks
3. Standard and premium storages
4. General purpose V2 storage
4. Azure Networking
1. Default segmentation using VNets
2. Configure hybrid connectivity
3. Routing in VNets
Chapter 2: Design considerations for migration Chapter Goal: This chapter will map the on-premise architecture components to counterparts in Azure. It will explore the features that are available or not available complete with alternatives and examples
No of pages: 25
Sub - Topics
1. Migrating compute workloads to Azure
1. Physical servers
2. VMware virtualization
3. Hyper-V virtualization
4. Other platforms
2. Traditional storage vs Storage in Azure
1. Storage for compute
2. File services
3. Hybrid storage - StorSimple
4. Third party solutions
3. Designing secure networks
1. VLANs and VNets
2. IPAM, DHCP and DNS
3. User defined routing
4. Forced tunnels
5. Network security groups
4. On-prem Vs Azure - Sample Architecture comparison
Chapter 3: Implementing scalable Infrastructure services Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on different design considerations and configuration options to scale up or scale out environments on demand
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics:
1. Choosing between Scale up vs Scale out
2. Scaling up resources on the fly
3. Scaling out using VM scale set 4. Scalability at the storage and networking layer
Chapter 4: Designing for resiliency in Azure Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on the different features/components in Azure IaaS to be included in a resilient architecture
No of pages: 20
Sub - Topics:
1.Storage layer Resiliency
2.Azure availability zones (preview feature)
3. Azure backup service for VMs, files and applications
1. Azure IaaS VM backup
2. Azure backup agent
3. Azure backup server/DPM
4. Azure Site recovery for IaaS
1. Replicate to different Azure region 2. &nbs
About the Author:
Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan currently works as a cloud consultant with Microsoft. She has 12+ years' experience in IT and specializes in datacenter management, virtualization, and cloud computing technologies. She started her career with EY IT services in the datacenter management team managing complex virtualized production datacenters. She has expertise in managing VMware and Hyper-V virtualization stacks and Windows/Linux server technologies. She has also worked on devops CI/CD implementation projects using tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, Git, TortoiseSVN, Mercurial, and Selenium. She later moved on to cloud computing and gained expertise in Windows Azure, focusing on Azure IaaS, backup/DR, and automation. She holds industry standard certifications in technologies including Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, and VMware. She also holds ITIL and TOGAF9 certifications. She has previously written a book on Azure automation.
