Microsoft Azure IaaS Essentials

Gethyn Ellis

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781782174639
• Thema: Computer Science
• Thema: Entreprise Applications

Microsoft Azure IaaS Essentials

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Microsoft Azure IaaS Essentials

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services

Understanding cloud computing

Services offered

Virtualization and on-premises technology

Software as a service (SaaS)

Platform as a service (PaaS)

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Hybrid environments

Microsoft Azure

Exploring the portal

Summary

2. Creating and Deploying a Windows Virtual Machine

Creating a new Windows server virtual machine

Pricing for virtual machines

Creating a virtual machine using the gallery

Connecting and managing your new Windows server virtual machine

Starting and stopping the virtual machine

Connecting to a virtual machine in the portal

Connecting from the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

Working with your virtual machine with PowerShell

Adding additional data disks to your virtual machine

Deploying an existing server to Microsoft Azure

Summary

3. Deploying Linux Virtual Machines on Azure

What is Linux?

Ubuntu

CoreOS

CentOS-based

SUSE

Oracle

Creating a Linux-based virtual machine

Working with your Linux virtual machine

Connect using Secure Shell (SSH)

Connect using Remote Desktop Protocol

Useful Linux commands

Summary

4. Virtual Networks

What is an Azure Virtual Network?

The benefits of virtual networks

The virtual network topology

A cloud-only virtual network

A cross-premises virtual network

Configuring a virtual network

Creating a cloud-only virtual network

Redeploying virtual machines into a virtual network

Configuring a cross-premises virtual network

Configuring the virtual network with a dynamic gateway

Creating certificates

Configuring the VPN client

Summary

5. Managing and Monitoring Virtual Machines

Monitoring cloud services using the Azure portal

Configuring monitoring for cloud services

Prerequisites

Creating a storage account

Azure storage replication options

The steps to create a storage account

Enabling Azure Diagnostics in a virtual machine

Adding metrics

Management services

Alerts

Operational logs

Other monitoring tools

PowerShell

System Center Operation Manager

Third-party monitoring tools

Summary

6. Microsoft Azure and Active Directory

What is Microsoft Azure Active Directory?

Azure AD editions

Configuring a standalone Microsoft Azure Active Directory

Setting up your own domain

Creating a user

Creating a group

Adding a member to the group

Synchronization of on-premises Active Directory and Azure AD

Directory Sync

Directory Sync with password

Directory Sync with single sign-on

Multi-Factor Authentication

Summary

7. High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Azure Virtual Machines

Microsoft Azure High Availability

System availability

System scalability

Redundancy and fault tolerance

Azure virtual machine downtime and availability

The multiple-tier architecture

Availability Set – Azure Internals

Configuring an Availability Set

Creating an Availability Set when provisioning a virtual machine

Creating a new Availability Set for an existing virtual machine

The Microsoft Azure load balancer and Availability Set

Microsoft Azure as a Disaster Recovery site

Summary

Index

Microsoft Azure IaaS Essentials

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Credits

Author

Gethyn Ellis

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About the Author

Gethyn Ellis runs a small IT consulting and training company that offers services to cloud, virtualization, and database technologies. He is based mainly in the UK and has been working with clients in both the private and public sectors. He does, however, support clients in both North America and the rest of Europe. He has been involved in several projects in deploying a virtual machine infrastructure to Azure and other cloud offerings. He has also written Getting Started with S...