Gil Gross's lecture during the Enterprise Cloud Workshop - Part of Back2School

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REHL On Azure
By Gil Gross
Azure Technical Lead & Microsoft PTSP
gilgr@cloudzone.io
http://gilgrossblog.wordpress.com

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Red Hat & Microsoft Partnership
Full Support for
running Red Hat
Products in Azure
including
REHL OpenShift Gluster REHL For SAP CloudForms…
Red Hat support engineers are located with Azure support engineers in Redmond
REHL is available as an On Demand Image Through Azure Market Place
MS SQL Server on REHL

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Full support for Azure services
Load
Balancers
Application
Gateways
Scale Sets Batch
Security
Center
Backup &
DR
OMS

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Backup & DR
Both Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery fully support REHL
Azure Backup provides
full VM backup with
geo storage option
and file level recovery
ASR provides full VM
replication to a second
Azure region

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Security Center
Security Center helps you safeguard virtual machine data in Azure by providing
visibility into your virtual machine’s security settings and monitoring for threats.
• Operating System (OS) security settings with the recommended
configuration rules
• System security and critical updates that are missing
• Endpoint protection recommendations
• Disk encryption validation
• Network based attacks
Security Center can monitor your virtual machines for:

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OMS
With OMS, you can collect and act on data generated from Linux, residing in your on-premises data
center as physical servers or virtual machines, virtual machines in Azure. You can also use management
solutions available in OMS such as Change Tracking, to identify configuration changes, and Update
Management to manage software updates to proactively manage the lifecycle of your Linux VMs.
• Alert Management
• Automation
• Change Tracking
• System Patching
• Much More
OMS Capabilities

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Current Linux Stats
Support
All images include platform support by
Microsoft via Azure Linux support
Premium images (SUSE and RHEL)
include single-point-of-contact, and
integrated support experiences (for
RHEL)
+

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Best Practice and Tips
Deploy VM’s using managed disks – managed disks allow on the fly resizing, easy conversion from HDD to
SSD & Snapshots.
Use Resource Groups to manage deployment lifecycles and access permissions.
Deploy HA VM’s to availability groups
Use resource group policies to control allowed resources such as Public IP’s
Backup VM’s and deployment templates
Use Security Center to monitor your environment Security
Use OMS to monitor your environment health

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Azure is an open cloud

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Thank You!
Gil Gross – gilgr@cloudzone.io