To the cloud! This phrase seems to come up more often for organizations look to reduce their SharePoint footprint and operational expenses in their on-premises datacenters. This session will provide a brief overview of a few of the premier Infrastructure as a Service hosting providers for SharePoint, how SharePoint in the cloud stacks up against Office 365 and how to quickly get your SharePoint system built in a repeatable fashion for development environments. You will learn: * Core Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers. * The complexities of what is involved with implementing SharePoint in a cloud hosted environment * Some of the nuances and workarounds for hosting SharePoint in the cloud

1. To the Cloud!
Using IaaS as a Hosting Provider for
SharePoint
Scott Hoag
scott@psconfig.com

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Cloud Services
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Storage
On-premises
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualizations
Servers
Networking
Infrastructure as a Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Storage
Networking
Servers
Virtualizations
Platform as a Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualizations
Servers
Storage
Networking
Software as a Service
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
OS
Virtualizations
Servers
Storage
Networking
Customer Manages Vendor Manages

6. AZURE REGIONS
Latest launch was in October 2015-
India – Central, India – South, India – West
GENERALLY AVAILABLE
6 new regions announced: Canada Central, Canada East, Germany Central,
Germany North East, United Kingdom (2 – regions TBD)

7. Visual Studio Family + Azure App ServiceDEVELOPER + APP PLATFORM
Azure + Azure Stack + Operations Management SuiteCLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Cortana Analytics SuiteDATA + ANALYTICS
Azure IoT SuiteINTERNET OF THINGS
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

10. Security and Compliance

11. Running in The Cloud​™

12. SharePoint Cloud Continuum
CONTROL
COST-EFFICIENCY
SharePoint (On-
premise)
• SharePoint
Value Prop:
• Full h/w control – size/scale
• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale
Value Prop:
• 100% of API surface area
• Easy migration of existing apps
• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale
SharePoint (IaaS)
• Hosted SharePoint
Value Prop:
• Auto HA, Fault-Tolerance
• Friction-free scale
• Self-provisioning, mgmt. @ scale
• SharePoint Service
Office 365 (SaaS)

13. Functions and
Features
Services and Service
Applications
Users
Content
Business Case
Fundamentals

17. SharePoint Support on Windows Azure
 Microsoft SharePoint Server
‐ SharePoint Server 2010 and later versions are supported on Azure virtual machines.
 Microsoft Office Web Apps Server
‐ Running Office Web Apps Server on Azure is supported but with some licensing limitations
(for example, editing a document with Office Web App is not permitted).
 Microsoft SQL Server
‐ Microsoft SQL Server64-bit versions of SQL Server 2008 and later versions are supported.
 Azure Virtual Machine Readiness Assessment
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2721672

18. Start Small…..
Pilot != Production
Customize the stamps
License Mobility
Leap before you look

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General Azure Configuration
Host cache OFF for data disks
Instance Sizing
Disk Striping Storage Spaces
Disk Size
Static IPs
Scale out – Not up

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How slow can you go?
VM Type Designation IOPS Max IOPS
Basic Basic_A 300 4.8k (A4)
Standard A 500 8k (A4/A7-9)
D-Series Standard_D 500 16k (D14)
8k (D4/D13)
~6k ephemeral
DS-Series Standard_DS ~1.6k 50k (DS14)
G-Series Standard_G 500 32k (G5)

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SQL Server Configuration
SQL Server Filegroups in use
SQL Server 2014 BPE
64k Allocation for SQL
Perform Volume Maintenance
Tasks for SQL Server Acct
AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Single Listener

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General SharePoint Configuration
Really not that different than you do
it today…
But don’t forget about that IOPS
thing…

23. Create a SharePoint Farm
Demo

24. Browse a SharePoint Farm
Demo

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Reference
Virtual Machine and Cloud Service Sizes for
Azure
Microsoft SharePoint Server on AWS
Whitepaper - Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
on the AWS Cloud
AWS Simply Monthly Calculator
SharePoint Server Farm Resource Manager
Template
D-Series SSD VMs in IaaS
Microsoft Online Services – Where is my data?
Using Microsoft Azure Active Directory for
SharePoint 2013 authentication
Performance Best Practices for SQL Server in
Azure Virtual Machines
Wictor Wilén - Microsoft Azure IAAS and
SharePoint 2013 tips and tricks
azure-sdk-tools-samples on Github
AzureRM-SharePoint-Templates on Github
Planning for SharePoint 2013 on Azure
Infrastructure Services
Using SSDs in Azure VMs to store SQL Server
TempDB and Buffer Pool Extensions
Azure Services by Region
AWS Regions and Endpoints

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