Success Story of SharePoint Development on Azure
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The document details a presentation by Malin de Silva on the advantages of using Azure virtual machines for SharePoint development, outlining in-depth experience and technical specifications. It covers migration challenges from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, benefits of Azure's flexibility, and options for scaling and recovery, emphasizing the cost-saving potential. The agenda includes insights on scripting capabilities, image mobility, and deployment strategies.
Success Story of SharePoint Development on Azure
- 1. malindesilva@live.com Business 365 Saturday - Singapore 24th October 2015 Success Story of SharePoint Development on Azure Malin De Silva SharePoint Specialist Exilesoft, Sri Lanka
- 2. About Me Planning, Development and administering experience since SharePoint 2007. Speaker at many forums and conferences. Blogger, StackExchange contributor and a big Azure fan.
- 3. Agenda • Introduction • Our Experience • Developer Advantages • Azure Virtual Machines for SharePoint • Promising Platform Support • Cost breakdown • Cost Savings malindesilva@live.com
- 4. Azure Virtual Machines • Supports multiple Operating Systems • Plenty of options to choose from • Hosted across multiple regions • Lower latency • Disaster recovery • Flexible administering capabilities • Many UI capabilities • PowerShell scripts for non frequent operations malindesilva@live.com
- 5. Video: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines malindesilva@live.com
- 6. Quick Note • Cloud Service • Availability Set • Site-to-site connectivity • Point-to-site connectivity malindesilva@live.com
- 7. We were with SharePoint 2010 • 5 member team • Complete environment installations • 3 virtual machines for each user • Many Full-Trust solutions • 60 GB and 30 GB data warehouses • Connecting external data sources • Developer machines • 500 GB/ 1TB of Physical hard disks • 16 GB RAM malindesilva@live.com
- 8. Then came 2013 migration… • Should migrate all Full-trust code as it is • Identical SharePoint 2013 environments • 3 virtual machines for each user • New workflows development • Both machines up in same time • More disk space • More memory (RAM) • More hardware for a limited time malindesilva@live.com
- 9. Then we thought Azure Virtual Machines
- 10. The Change 2010 Environments in local VMs 2013 Environments in Azure VMs 15 Virtual Machines (3*5) 7 Virtual Machines (Users and Data Shared) 450 GB for Data warehouses (90*5) 90 GB for Data warehouses Take laptop home on vacations Can use free Wi-Fi at train station No disk space to make snapshots Plenty of options for making snapshots Shut down and restart take time Can schedule for a time in day malindesilva@live.com
- 11. The Developer Advantage • High-speed virtual machines • Quick scale-up and scale-down capabilities • Scheduled machine restart • Auto-install updates • Connect from anywhere • Many backup and recovery options • Continuous integration and build deployment malindesilva@live.com
- 12. Azure Virtual Machine Options (Windows) • A series • Basic tier • No load balancing, No auto-scaling • 300 IOPS • Standard tier • More flexibility • 500 IOPS • D series • 60% faster than A-series • Local SSDs • Dv2 series • 35% faster than D series • 2.4 GHz Intel Xenon v3 Processors • G series • 2 times more memory, 4 times more SSDs • GS Series • Premium storage malindesilva@live.com
- 13. Virtual Machines for SharePoint Development malindesilva@live.com Domain Controller (Users) Database Server (Data) SharePoint Server (Web)
- 14. Demonstration Setting Up a SharePoint Environment on Azure
- 15. Scripting Capabilities • Perform multiple operations • Provisioning, Removal • Reboot, Start • Import and Export VM Settings • Automate virtual network capabilities • Many resources • Blogs/ Articles • Azure Script Center • Cross Platform Scripting Build on Node.js malindesilva@live.com
- 16. Image Mobility and Availability • Image Mobility • Bring existing virtual machines to cloud • 99.95% for multiple role instances • Applies to Availability Sets • 4.38 hours of downtime for year • What's included • Computer hardware failures • Datacenter failures • Upgrades and maintenance malindesilva@live.com • Not included • VM Container Crashes • Guest OS updates
- 17. Cost Saving Options • Auto Scaling or Automating • Start with Windows Server Installations • License Mobility malindesilva@live.com
- 18. Demonstration Auto scaling and Automating
- 20. Thank You! Malin De Silva SharePoint Specialist Exilesoft mds@Exilesoft.com/ malindesilva@live.com @MalinD19