Hilton Giesenow
Principal Consultant, 3fifteen
Microsoft MVP
Case Study
What is “the cloud”
[x] as a Service
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
Windows Azure, On One Slide
Why the Cloud
“Azure”
Windows Azure, In One Picture
Business Portal
Developer Portal
…
…
REST
MS Datacenters
…
Compute Cluster
Service Management Service
Storage Cluster
REST
Reporting
Business
Analytics
Data Sync
SQL Azure Database Overview
L
SQL Azure Network Topology
Applications use standard SQL
client libraries: ODBC,
ADO.Net, PHP, …
Application
Internet
Azure
Cloud
TDS (tcp)
Security Boundary
LB
Load balancer forwards ‘sticky’
sessions to TDS protocol tier
TDS (tcp)
Gateway
Gateway
Gateway
Gateway
Gateway
Gateway
Gateway: TDS protocol gateway, enforces AUTHN/AUTHZ policy; proxy to CloudDB
TDS (tcp)
SQL
SQL
SQL
SQL
Scalability and Availability: Fabric, Failover, Replication, and Load balancing
Demo
Overview
SQL Azure Service Provisioning
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Account
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Server
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Database
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Case Study
Synchronization
Example Sync Framework Customers
Credit Suisse
Relational
PIM Data
SyncToy
Files
SharePoint 2010
Lists
SharePoint Workspace 2010
(Groove)
Favorites
Relational
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Summary
Offline-Capable
Cached Mode
Applications
Browser
Clients
On-Premises
Applications
Sync
SQL Azure Platform
BusinesstoBusiness
SyncFX Application Components
Configure
Sync Application
Configure
Sync()
Sync Orchestrator
Store
Sync
Provider
Sync
Provider
Sync
Runtime
Sync
Runtime
Store
>>FUTURE
Trustworthy Collaboration Example
System
Administrators
Sensitive
Business
Data
Audit logs
Auditors
Capability
Generation
Center
Publishers
Data Owners
Collaboration with sensitive data
Subscribers
Case Study
“Web Role”
“Worker Role”
Web vs Worker Role
Storage
Fundamental Storage Concepts
− Tables
− Queues
− Blobs
− Drives
(new)
31
Queues
Queue Summary
Blobs
Blob Features and Functions
− PutBlob, GetBlob, DeleteBlob
− CopyBlob, SnapshotBlob, LeaseBlob
Table Storage Concepts
Accounts
Tables
Entities
37
Windows Azure Tables
38
Development Fabric and Storage
Roles
Case Study
Service Bus – 3 Patterns
Service Remoting
• RPC-style,
Request/Response
or Duplex
Eventing
• One-way
communication
• Unicast or
Multicast
Tunneling
• Full-Duplex
Tunneling of Raw
Streams
• TCP, Pipes, Proxies,
…
Access Control Services
How It Works
3. Map input claims
1. Define access control
rules for a customer
6.Token
Validated
0. Secret
exchange;
periodically
refreshed
litware REST
Web Service
to output claims based on
access control rules
litware ACS
Service Namespace
5. Send Message
w/ Access Token
Customer
Case Study
Is It For Me?
“Growing Fast“
Compute
Compute
“On and Off “
Inactivity
Period
Time
Time
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On & off workloads (e.g. batch job)
Over provisioned capacity is wasted
Time to market can be cumbersome
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Successful services needs to grow/scale
Keeping up w/ growth is big IT challenge
Complex lead time for deployment
“Unpredictable Bursting“
Compute
Compute
“Predictable Bursting“
Average Usage
Average Usage
Time
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•
•
Average Usage
Usage
Average
Unexpected/unplanned peak in demand
Sudden spike impacts performance
Can’t over provision for extreme cases
Time
•
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Services with micro seasonality trends
Peaks due to periodic increased demand
IT complexity and wasted capacity
TicketDirect Architecture
Windows Azure Roles
Client Applications
Service Bus
Dynamic
Worker
(tasks uploaded
as blobs)
http:// TicketDirect .*
Distributed
Cache Worker
Windows Azure Storage
------ Tables to
Blobs to
store web
record
--and worker
--- server &
role
partition
---resources
information
Partitioner
Worker
WCF
Queues for
communication
between clients
and roles
Castellan.Azure
• Box Office sales
• Ticket Printing
• System Administration
• Venue/Event
Management
• Partitioning
On Premises
SQL Server
Castellan
Venue
SQL Azure
Castellan
Castellan
Castellan
Venue
Venue
DB 1
Partition(s)
DB’s
Castellan
Castellan
Venue
Venue
DB 2
Partition(s)
DB’s
Castellan
Castellan
Venue
Venue
DBN
Partition(s)
DB’s
One application DB, many venue DB’s – each partitioned in to many parts (40+)
...
Castellan.old (VB6)
Some Other Possible Examples
Windows Azure Platform Consumption Prices
$0.12/hour
+ Variable Instance Sizes
$0.15 GB/month
$0.01/10K transactions
Per Message Operation
$0.015/10k Message Operations
$9.99/month
(up to 1 GB DB/month)
Per Message Operation
$0.015/10k Message Operations
$99.99/month
(up to 10 GB DB/month)
Windows Azure Instance Sizes
$0.12
$0.24
$0.48
$0.96
Unit of Compute Defined
1 x 1.6Ghz
2 x 1.6Ghz
4 x 1.6Ghz
8 x 1.6Ghz
1.75 GB memory
3.5 GB memory
7.0 GB memory
14 GB memory
250 GB storage
(instance storage)
500 GB storage
(instance storage)
1000 GB storage
(instance storage)
2000 GB
(instance storage)
Windows Azure Platform Data Transfer
North America Region
N. Central – US
Sub-region
Europe Region
Asia Pacific Region
N. Europe
Sub-region
W. Europe
Sub-region
E. Asia
Sub-region
S. Central - US
Sub-region
S.E. Asia
Sub-region
On-board to Windows Azure platform at no charge
Off peak times defined as: 10pm-6am Mon-Fri & from 10pm-Fri to 6am-Mon for
weekends in each designated regional time zones below
North America
PST = UTC-8
Europe
WET = UTC
Asia Pacific
SST = UTC+8
Quiz Time
Resources
msdn.com
microsoft.com/learning
www.azure.com
http://msdn.microsoft.com/azure
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dd439432.aspx
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