SQL Server on Virtual Machines Best Practices Show Provisioning of a Virtual Machine (Server 2012) Show a pre-provisioned Virtual Machine with a 1 TB disk attached. Show them backed by storage using CloudXPlorer Add another disk through the portal and watch it surface in disk management Provision a Linux VM and have it “connect” to the existing booted Server 2012 VM and ping to show connectivity You can get supported by us

4. Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service
Overview of Windows Azure Virtual Machine, Storage and Networking
Windows Azure - Migrating Apps and Workloads
Overview of what kinds of apps and workloads to migrate and how to get
started

6. Line of Business Applications
Custom Applications, CRM, CMS, ERP, Business Intelligence
Application Infrastructure
File Servers, Databases, Identity, Source Control
Developer, Test and Staging Environments
Quickly Provision and Un-provision Entire Environments
Hybrid Applications

8. Supported Versions
SQL Server 2012, 2008 R2, 2008
Supported Features
All SQL Server features supported except failover clustering *
SQL Server Provisioning
Cloud-first using stock images, bring your own server / VHD, capture cloud
images
SQL Server Licensing
Pay by the hour or migrate your own license via Software Assurance **

12. Storage Recommendations
Do not use write caching
Avoid using OS drive for large databases
Consider putting database and transaction log files on separate drives
Consider putting tempdb on the non-persistent cache disk (D:)
Database Recommendations
Consider using database page compression to reduce I/O
High Availability Recommendations
Consider latency between primary and replica when choosing sync mode

14. SQL Server
(IaaS)
Windows Azure SQL Database
(PaaS)
Development
Migrate Existing Apps
Develop New Apps
Management
Full Control
Managed Service
Compatibility
Full SQL Server Capabilities
Based on SQL Server Technology
Shared Technology
Network transport (Tabular Data Stream)
SQL dialect (Transact-SQL)
Data access APIs (ADO.NET, ODBC, JDBC)
Development tools (SQL Server Data Tools)
Management tools (SQL Server Management Studio)

15. Microsoft has a continuous offering from private to
public cloud
Windows Azure now supports IaaS workloads
SQL Server is fully supported on Windows Azure
Virtual Machine
IaaS is about migration, PaaS is about new
development