azure iaas tips & tricks
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WINDOWS AZURE IAAS TIPS & TRICKS
• Anton Staykov• @astaykov
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ABOUT ME
• Windows Azure MVP (3 times now)
• With Azure from the beginninghttp://blogs.staykov.net/@astaykov
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AGENDA
Azure IaaS Outside-In connection issues Virtual Networks IP Address predictability AD/DC – Highway to … Mail Server on Azure
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PaaS SaaSPhysical Virtual IaaS
A CONTINUOUS OFFERING FROM PRIVATE TO
PUBLIC CLOUD
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WINDOWS AZURE VIRTUAL MACHINES
Support for key server applications*
Easy storage manageability
High availability features
Advanced networking
Integration with compute PaaS
* http://bit.ly/azurevmsupport
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COMMON ISSUES
VM Disappears or was deleted (MSND /Free Trial)
Blob storage occupied (VHD not deleted)
Temporary Disk (how temporary is it?) What disk size should I chose?
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DEMO
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INTERNET CONNECTIVITY
Outside-In
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DIP
LBVIP
Virtual Machine (IaaS)
Windows Azure Cloud Service (foo.cloudapp.net)
INTERNET
NETWORKING PICTURE
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OUTSIDE-IN CONNECTIVITY
Endpoint Definition Windows Firewall Rules Corporate Firewalls PING times out
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VIRTUAL NETWORK
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VNET SCENARIOS
Define IP Address space for DIP IaaS Interconnectivity Site-to-Site Point-to-Site IaaS-to-PaaS and vice-versa
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VNET
Address Spaces 10.0.0.0 172.16.0.0 192.168.0.0
Sub Nets Gateway Sub-Net
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ADDRESS ALLOCATION SECRETS
Always and only by DHCP The first host gets the 4th IP
Address i.e. 192.168.0.4
Automatic cross-sub-net connectivity
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VNET CROSS-PREMISES
Site-to-Site Point-to-Site Local Address Management
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NAME RESOLUTION
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NAME RESOLUTION SCENARIOS
When not in VNetPaaS only (Web/Worker Roles)
IaaS only (Virtual Machines)
When in Vnet IaaS / PaaS only
IaaS + PaaS IaaS + LocalPaaS + Local IaaS + PaaS + Local
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DNS SERVER ON IAAS
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DNS SERVER SECRETS
Just for the DNS server machine, set DNS to 127.0.0.1 when deploying!
Place the DNS Server on its own subnet Remember the full format of FQDN http://bit.ly/fqdn
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IP ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT SECRETS
IP Address predictability Sub-net isolation Address Space Isolation
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AD/DC ON IAAS
Highway to Clouds
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AC/DC NETWORK LAYOUT
VNET-WE-IAASTIPS-PROD
DNS/ 192.168.30.4
Address Space 192.168.30.0/29
Sub-ADDC: 192.168.30.0/29
Address Space 172.16.0.0/22Sub-Clients: 172.16.0.0/22
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MAIL SERVER ON IAAS
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HOSTING OWN MAIL SERVER ISSUES
Public (dynamic) IP Address Reverse DNS records (PTR Records) http://bit.ly/azureptr
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Never forget Firewall Know your IP Addresses Don’t host Email Server
(yet)
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Q&A
• Anton Staykov
• @astaykov
• http://blogs.staykov.net/