Lessons Learned – Deploying a Hybrid CloudShiran Herath - McN CIOJohn Fahey - McN Technology ManagerJoel Neff - Kloud Solutions

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Azure

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Server 2012

Azure

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Server 2012

Windows Azure

McN Technology Template

“JIT”

Windows Azure

McN Technology Template

“JIT”

Hybrid Cloud @ McGrathNicol

With Server 2012 and Azure, we have the opportunity to “REDEFINE” the IT landscape

Connected

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What we did

Considerations

VM Roles are still in PreviewNetworking

Failover clusteringInterfaces and IPs

Broadcast network trafficDHCPNLB

StorageSQL Server configuration

How we did it

Establish Azure environmentConfigure Azure Virtual Network

Establish Virtual GatewayConfigure firewall

Cisco and Juniper are supportedActive Directory integration

DC in Azure for authenticationOn-premises DNS required for domain joined VM

Provisioning

PowerShell is a powerful tool for preconfiguring VMsDomain join on bootIP addressingServer nameAdditional disks

New-AzureVM commands aren’t documented in entirety in some official documentation; see blogs by:

Marc Terblanche: http://bit.ly/OrLWeGMichael Washam: http://bit.ly/KEYFG1

VM Images

Create and upload VHDs from Hyper-VOnly Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 RC are supported

Images must be generalised with Sysprep

Use CSUpload to copy the image to blob storage

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