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Editor's Notes

• #4: Speaking Points: There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc. Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices. The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
• #5: Slide Objectives: Explain the three established industry terms for cloud services Speaker Notes: There is a lot of talk in the industry about different terms like Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service. Since PDC08 when we first announced the Windows Azure our focus has been on delivering a platform as a service offering where you can build applications. Where the platform abstracts you from the complexities of building and running applications. We fundamentally believe that the future path forward for development is by providing a platform. In fact, as you’ll see in a few minutes, we believe that there are a number of new capabilities that should be delivered as services to the platform. Notes: There is a lot of confusion in the industry when it comes to the cloud. It’s important that you understand both what is happening in the industry and how we think about the cloud. This is the most commonly used taxonomy for differentiating between types of cloud services. The industry has defined three categories of services: IaaS – a set of infrastructure level capabilities such as an operating system, network connectivity, etc. that are delivered as pay for use services and can be used to host applications. PaaS – higher level sets of functionality that are delivered as consumable services for developers who are building applications. PaaS is about abstracting developers from the underlying infrastructure to enable applications to quickly be composed. SaaS – applications that are delivered using a service delivery model where organizations can simply consume and use the application. Typically an organization would pay for the use of the application or the application could be monetized through ad revenue. It is important to note that these 3 types of services may exist independently of one another or combined with one another.
• #6: Slide Objectives: Explain the differences and relationship between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS in more detail. Speaking Points: Here’s another way to look at the cloud services taxonomy and how this taxonomy maps to the components in an IT infrastructure. Packaged Software With packaged software a customer would be responsible for managing the entire stack – ranging from the network connectivity to the applications. IaaS With Infrastructure as a Service, the lower levels of the stack are managed by a vendor. Some of these components can be provided by traditional hosters – in fact most of them have moved to having a virtualized offering. Very few actually provide an OS The customer is still responsible for managing the OS through the Applications. For the developer, an obvious benefit with IaaS is that it frees the developer from many concerns when provisioning physical or virtual machines. This was one of the earliest and primary use cases for Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). Developers were able to readily provision virtual machines (AMIs) on EC2, develop and test solutions and, often, run the results ‘in production’. The only requirement was a credit card to pay for the services. PaaS With Platform as a Service, everything from the network connectivity through the runtime is provided and managed by the platform vendor. The Windows Azure best fits in this category today. In fact because we don’t provide access to the underlying virtualization or operating system today, we’re often referred to as not providing IaaS. PaaS offerings further reduce the developer burden by additionally supporting the platform runtime and related application services. With PaaS, the developer can, almost immediately, begin creating the business logic for an application. Potentially, the increases in productivity are considerable and, because the hardware and operational aspects of the cloud platform are also managed by the cloud platform provider, applications can quickly be taken from an idea to reality very quickly. SaaS Finally, with SaaS, a vendor provides the application and abstracts you from all of the underlying components.
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• #15: Slide Objectives: High-level selling points of virtual machines. Speaker Notes: Both Linux and Windows are supported. It’s important to reiterate on this as many developers are still not aware of this. Mention scaling at enterprise level using DSC, Puppet or Chef. Emphasize on the openness – we are not forcing your to lock on Microsoft technologies. Instead, Azure is more open than ever. You can leverage your existing skills, tools and services, and Azure is providing more and more first-class supports for them.
• #16: Slide Objectives: High-level selling points of virtual machines. Speaker Notes: Both Linux and Windows are supported. It’s important to reiterate on this as many developers are still not aware of this. Mention scaling at enterprise level using DSC, Puppet or Chef. Emphasize on the openness – we are not forcing your to lock on Microsoft technologies. Instead, Azure is more open than ever. You can leverage your existing skills, tools and services, and Azure is providing more and more first-class supports for them.
• #17: Slide Objective: Explain workflow for provisioning VMs in the cloud Speaker Notes: You have three methods of starting this process: Build a VM from the portal, from the command line OR programmatically calling the REST API. Once your choice of provisioning is made you will need to select the image and instance size to start from. The newly created disk will be stored in blob storage and your machine will boot.
• #18: Slide Objective: Explain a wide variety of images that you can choose from. Speaker Notes: First of all, you can choose from different Windows Servers and a variety of Linux implementations. [Click] As well as pre-built images for different flavors of SQL Database and Oracle databases. [Click] You can also choose from a number of first-party and certified third-party images for various application servers and infrastructural components. [Click] And last but not least, if you are a MSDN subscriber, you also have access to Visual Studio images and client Windows systems such as Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 for your DevTest purposes.
• #19: Slide Objective: Introduce different virtual machine sizes. Speaker Notes: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/
• #21: Demo: Provisioning VM Prerequisites: A Windows Server 2012 is already provisioned. Steps: Open Ibiza portal and click the NEW button at the lower-left corner. Show the short list of resources. Explain that I can directly create popular resources here such as a Windows Server 2012. Click on the Everything link. In Gallery blade, open the Virtual machines category. Scroll down the view and show images of different types (refer back to slide 9). Click on Windows Server 2012 R2, and then click the Create button in the overview blade. For non-Microsoft focused audience, consider to pick a Linux image instead. Fill in the Create VM form and click on the Create button to provision the VM. Explain this will take a few minutes. Open the already provisioned VM. Scroll down the blade to show various of information available on the blade. Click on the Extensions tile. On the Extensions blade, click on the ADD icon to bring up the extension list. Introduce that VM extensions are installable components to customize VM instances. Switch to slides to continue with VM extension introduction.
• #22: Slide Objective: Introduce VM extensions. Speaker Notes: No matter how big the image gallery is, your projects may have specific needs that can’t be satisfied by standard images. Some components such as anti-virus, configuration management agents are required on most machines for compliance and management purposes. This allows use to innovate faster to meet with your project needs. And you have flexibility to pick and combine extensions for your goals. Point out some of existing extensions: Custom Script Extension, which allows you to download and execute PowerShell scripts. Chef Extension and Puppet Extension for automated management at scale. Symantec Endpoint Protection etc. for protection. Docker (Linux only). Visual Studio Remote Debugger.
• #24: Slide Objective: Explain the differences between disks and images with VMs
• #26: Slide Objective: Explain availability sets Notes: Availability sets tell the Fabric Controller to place VMs in the same set on different racks for faults and in separate upgrade domains for updates. This essentially tells the FC not to take the guest OS down of all VMs in the same set for host updates.
• #32: Slide Objective: Explain availability sets Notes: Availability sets tell the Fabric Controller to place VMs in the same set on different racks for faults and in separate upgrade domains for updates. This essentially tells the FC not to take the guest OS down of all VMs in the same set for host updates.