To the cloud! This phrase seems to come up more and more often for organizations looking to reduce their SharePoint footprint in their data center. In this session, Scott will give 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 Azure can help us spin up environments in just a few hours! You will learn: * The core cloud concepts of IaaS, SaaS and PaaS * How Azure and AWS EC2 differ and are similar in their product offerings as well as where Azure makes the most sense * How to setup a SharePoint environment through script and web interfaces in Azure

1. To the Cloud!
Utilising Azure as a Cloud Hosting Provider for SharePoint
Scott Hoag
Senior Systems Engineer, AIS
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4. As a service…

5. Cloud Services

6. Cloud Services

12. Running in The Cloud ™

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

15. AWS Costing
$4304.60 USD
SharePoint 2013 on AWS
Whitepaper
Calculator

16. Azure Costing
$1458 USD OR $3478 USD OR
$6355 USD
Microsoft's SharePoint Stamp
Pricing
Calculator

17. Start small…
Pilot != Production
Customise the stamps
License Mobility
Leap before you look

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

19. How slow can you go?
VM Type Designation IOPS Max IOPS
Basic Basic_AX 300 4.8k (A4)
Standard AX 500 8k (A4/A7-9)
D-Series Standard_DX 500 16k (D14)
8k (D4/D13)
~6k ephemeral
G-Series ? ? ?

20. 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

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

22. Demo
Create a SharePoint Farm

23. Demo
Browse a SharePoint Farm

25. 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

26. Thanks for listening
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