Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack: Implementing on-premises Azure infrastructure

369 Pages·2017·35.052 MB·English

by  Markus Klein, Susan Roesner

Building Hybrid Clouds with
Azure Stack
Implementing on-premises Azure infrastructure
Markus Klein
Susan Roesner
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack
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Credits
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Markus Klein Stuti Shrivastava
Susan Roesner Madhusudan Uchil
Reviewer Project Coordinator
Mag. Stefan Denninger Virginia Dias
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About the Authors
Markus Klein has been working as a senior IT architect at Orange Networks GmbH on
Microsoft technology for about 20 years now (and specifically with Microsoft Cloud
technology for the last 15 years), starting with System Center, Service Provider Foundation,
KATAL, Azure Pack, Azure, and now Azure Stack. In 2011, he founded the Microsoft
Cloud community (building clouds community) and has been recognized as an MVP in
cloud and datacenter management for the sixth year in a row. He speaks at Microsoft
conferences (starting in 2002 at TechEd Germany) and is a regular speaker at conferences in
Europe and abroad. His Twitter handle is @Dr_AzureStack.
Thank you for all the support from the Microsoft Product Group of Azure Stack and all the
people who somehow helped make this book possible. I do not want to add specific names to
thank because I might forget someone, which is not my intention.
Many thanks to my family for giving me the chance to spend time writing this book and
providing you with this information that was, in my opinion, missing in the market.

Susan Roesner is a cloud architect with expertise in a wide range of technologies and
industries (public and private), including Fortune 500 organizations. Since 2009, she has
been working in Microsoft virtualization and Microsoft System Center technology, IT
management consulting, focusing on cloud solutions for on-premise enterprise customers
as well as hosting provider in addition to compliance aspects.
Before joining Bytes at Work GmbH in 2015, she worked as an IT architect consultant, in the
financial sector, and in compliance/IT security, working on projects such as SOX and ISMS
implementations, on compliance audits (internal and external), and compliance
policy/process creation.
About the Reviewer
Mag. Stefan Denninger is a senior cloud architect with a 20 years’ experience in running IT.
In the last few years, he has focused on Hybrid Cloud Solutions because these are the
solutions that are most complex and where there is maximum variety.
This is the field where he feels comfortable. As he started with networking staff like
configuring Cisco Routers and later with MS Biztalk Server bringing Business Processes to
modern environments, the bandwidth is perfect for Hybrid Solutions.
The latest projects were all based on Microsoft Azure and local Environments such as Azure
Pack or even now on Azure Stack.
His Twitter handle is @stefandenninger.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1
Chapter 1: The Microsoft Azure Stack Architecture
7
Cloud as the new IT infrastructure 7
Cloud terminology 8
The Microsoft cloud story 9
Microsoft Azure Stack 10
Technical design 12
Storage Spaces Direct 12
VxLAN networking technology 14
Nano Server 15
Azure Resource Manager 15
PowerShell desired state configuration 19
Azure Stack VMs 20
AzS-ACS01 20
AzS-ADFS01 21
AzS-SQL01 22
AzS-BGPNAT01 22
AzS-CA01 22
MAS-DC01 23
AzS-ERCS01 23
AzS-Gwy01 23
AzS-NC01 23
AzS-SLB01 24
AzS-WASP01 25
AzS-WAS01 25
AzS-XRP01 25
Services summary 26
(Re)starting an Azure Stack environment 26
Resource providers 27
Azure Stack's core management services 28
The authorization management service 28
Subscriptions, Plans, and Offers 29
Plan 29
Offer 30
Subscription 30
Gallery 30
Events 30
Monitoring 30
Usage 31
Using Azure Stack 32
Azure Stack Portal 32
PowerShell commandlets 33
Application programming interface 35
Custom portal for Azure Stack 36
Azure Stack CLI 36
Tools for Azure Stack 36
Migrating services to Azure Stack 37
Azure Website Migration Assistant 37
Virtual Machines Readiness Assessment 39
Virtual Machines Optimization Assessment 40
Summary 40
Chapter 2: Planning the Deployment of Microsoft Azure Stack for
Private Clouds
41
Solution design 42
Virtual machines 44
SQL Database as a Service 44
Born-in-the-cloud web apps 45
Cloud Foundry 45
Mesosphere Enterprise Server (DC/OS) 46
Sizing Azure Stack 46
Authentication in Azure Stack 48
Azure Active Directory for Azure Stack 49
Active Directory Federation Services for Azure Stack 50
Choosing the authentication provider 51
Securing Azure Stack 51
Secure by default 51
Certificates 51
Testing/staging environment 52
Role-based access control 53
Key Vault 54
Azure Stack syndication with Azure Marketplace 55
Compliance with Azure Stack 55
Preparing the deployment 57
Monitoring Azure Stack 59
Business continuity with Azure Stack 60
Azure Stack backup concept 60
Location of ARM and portal in Azure Stack 61
Backup and restore your first Azure Stack rack 61
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