AX 2012 R3 OnMicrosoftAzureOverview

© Copyright 2013 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Avanade name and logo are registered trademarks in the US and other countries.

AX 2012 on Microsoft Azure-Overview

AX 2012 on Microsoft Azure

Nov,5 2014

1


Agenda

Introduction – Microsoft Azure

Benefits of Azure

Azure services model – Architecture

Making deployments with Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services

Cloud hosted environments tool to deploy the following types of Dynamics AX 2012 R3 environments

Considerations when deploying Dynamics AX 2012 R3 on Azure

2


Introduction – Azure Microsoft Azure (formerly Windows Azure before 25 March 2014) is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure,

for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. It provides both Platform as a service(PAAS) and Infrastructure as a service(IAAS) and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

Microsoft Azure released the following new features:

- Websites allows developers to build sites using ASP.NET, PHP, Node.js, or Python and can be deployed using FTP, Team Foundation Server.

- Virtual machines let developers migrate applications and infrastructure without changing existing code, and can run both Windows Server and Linux virtual machines.

- Cloud services - Microsoft's Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment that is used to create scalable applications and services. It previously named as "Hosted Services". The Cloud Services are containers of hosted applications. These applications can be internet-facing public web applications (such as web sites and e-commerce solutions), or they can be private processing engines for other work, such as processing orders or analyzing data.

- Data management - SQL Database, formerly known as SQL Azure Database, works to create, scale and extend applications into the cloud using Microsoft SQL Server technology. Integrates with Active Directory.

- Media services - A PaaS offering that can be used for encoding, content protection, streaming, and/or analytics.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 on Microsoft Azure :

Dynamics AX 2012 R3 includes capabilities such as: Financial management , Human capital management, Manufacturing , Supply chain management , Project management and accounting , Retail , Business intelligence and reporting. To meet the demand and expectations of both customers and partners, Dynamics AX 2012 R3 is supported to run on Azure’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

Goal: The goal is that we will be able to deploy Dynamics AX 2012 R3 to run fully in the cloud, or various hybrid scenarios, to leverage the power, simplicity and cost savings of Azure

Flexible benefits: Budget maximization, easily scalable operations, simplified equipment provisioning for development and testing environments, and support for the various demands of the business.

3


Benefits of Azure

4

Advantages using Azure over traditional

on-premises data centers and deployment

Agility: For more quickly and easily respond to the changing needs of your

organization. Speed development:

Use of the LCS Cloud hosted environments tool to deploy numerous demo (and soon

development and test environments) to help speed

your development efforts, increase uptime of your

implementations, and create better applications faster

Security and privacy :Delivers a trusted foundation

on which customers can design, build and manage

their own secure cloud applications and

infrastructure and this extends to running Dynamics AX 2012 R3 on the Microsoft

cloud.

Reduce costs: To build out or manage infrastructure

with Azure IaaS, your IT costs may be greatly reduced through the

advantages of only paying for the resources you

actually use

Save time :

Hardware acquisition and deployment can be reduced to just a few hours using the

new deployment facilities provided in Lifecycle Services

Elasticity and flexibility :To scale up

(or scale down) infrastructure

dynamically to meet the changing needs of your

business


Primary benefits of Azure

5

Build, modify and distribute applications to the Web with minimal on-premise resources.

Perform services such as large-volume storage, batch processing, intense or high

volume computations, off-premises

Reduce cost and risks of building and extending on-premise resources

Reduce the effort and cost of IT managment

Cloud Comparing Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services

1) Database : Databases are used to persist your application data such as users, contents, orders etc., there are several database engines. Here

can understand how SQL Server runs in all three cloud providers.

Microsoft Azure provides SQL Database as a low cost, multi-tenant cloud database.

Amazon has two models: (1) You can create a VM with SQL Server. (2) You can use SQL RDS (fully managed by AWS).

Features Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services

Database Support SQL Database (SQL Azure) SQL Server 2008 R2 or Greater and AWS SQL RDS

(Managed SQL Instance)

2) Cloud Storage and CDN : Cloud storage is a file system where you store and retrieve files from your applications. Content

Deliver Networks (CDN) were created to improve website performance by distributing assets to CDN nodes (edge servers). Cloud

providers of CDNs have edge servers around the world and distributed your assets across these networks. By putting your assets closer to your site visitors, you can dramatically improve site performance.

Features Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services

StorageMicrosoft provides the Azure Blob; one of the high-

performing storage providers among other providers.

Amazon provides Simple Storage Service (S3), w hich

has several features above and beyond w hat is

included w ith the Azure Blob

•If you want to run your code without having control over the OS, VM, and so on, then go with Microsoft Azure . For example if you have stateless (no dependency on VM) applications or websites which does not require any persistency then you go with Microso ft Azure.

•If you need more control over the machines and software then go with Amazon. For example if you need to run some of the enterprise servers like SharePoint or SOLR then Amazon EC2 instances are the best fit because they are persisted VMs.

•If you just need compute to process large data for reporting then either of these options will work well .


Key differences with amazon cloud services

6

Best price for performance : Azure leads Amazon Web Services in several third party performance tests. Cloud

Spectator's recent study, A Comparative Analysis of 5 Large Cloud IaaS Providers , showed Azure Infrastructure

Services was the highest performing provider and on average has 3X better price for performance than Amazon

EC2(Elastic Compute).

Best hybrid solution: Only Microsoft provides a consistent platform approach that lets you easily move between

on-premises and the public cloud. While Amazon Web Services locks customers into a proprietary AMI format.

Azure uses the open VHD standard that allows you to easily move your workloads from your datacenter to Azure or

a hosting service provider and back to on-premises. It provides you with great choice and flexibility in creating

your own roadmap to the cloud based on your unique business needs and existing technology

investments.

Best development-test solution : Save time and money when you develop and test applications with Azure.

Unlike AWS, Azure provides by-the-minute rather than hourly billing, saving you money when you're developing

and testing your applications. You'll also benefit from no charges for stopped VMs and you can easily export the

virtual machine in your test environment back to on-premises for production.

Best platform for Microsoft applications and databases : Azure works seamlessly with your existing Microsoft

applications and, unlike Amazon Web Services, Microsoft provides end-to-end support from the infrastructure to

your operating system to your applications.

Best support for Oracle: Azure is the only cloud provider certified for Oracle applications and databases.

For details : Refer to http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/dev-test/


Azure – Service Model

7

.

Azure offers three flavors of services

Azure Operating System (Platform as a Service)

Worker/Web Role, Blobs(Binary large Objects), Queues, TablesAzure .NET Services (Software as a Service)Access Control Service

SQL Azure (SQL Server in the sky)Workflow ServicesAzure Hosted Services (Application as a Service)

Hosted ExchangeHost SharePoint

Services of Microsoft Azure Platform


Azure – Service Model continue-1

8

SAAS PAAS IAAS

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) delivers hardware (server, network, load balancer, and so on) and software (OS, database,

and app servers). Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest IaaS provider. Users have full control over the VM and need to

manage the OS, system upgrades, security patches, and so on

Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides infrastructure and OS management (such as, security, OS upgrades, paths, and so

on). Users do not have control over the OS, system updates, versions, patches, security, and so on, which are controlled and

implemented by PaaS provider.


Azure – Service Model continue-2

9

Dynamics AX 2012 R3 is deployed to Azure subscription using Azure IaaS. This means that Azure

provides the virtual machines, storage, and networking capabilities to support implementation by still giving you the control you want of your systems. The way we do for on-premises deployments, you still are required to manage, secure, and license the operating systems, applications, and data installed on

the virtual machines in implementations.

Azure is simply providing virtualized hardware and networking facilities through your subscription, which

is what grants you access to, and controls the amount of Azure resources and services that you have contracted to use.


Making deployments with Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services

10

Lifecycle Services (LCS) is an Azure-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. However, deployment of Dynamics AX 2012

R3 environments using LCS utilizes separate Azure subscription and the IaaS facilities of Azure. LCS expedites the deployment

and also provides other facilities to operate and maintain your deployment, but it is not providing Dynamics AX 2012 R3 as a

software service. Rather, once Dynamics AX 2012 R3 is deployed, it runs on the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) virtual

hardware and networks of Azure, but must be operated and maintain by your IT staff as if it were an on-premises deployment.

- Demo Environment

- Developer/Test Environement

For details: Refer to

http://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/dn741581.aspx

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-how-to-

create-deploy/


Considerations when deploying AX 2012 R3 on Azure

11

- Azure is a deployment option for Dynamics AX 2012 R3; however, you do not have to deploy Dynamics AX 2012 R3 on Azure. You can deploy Dynamics AX 2012 R3 to your local on-premises network if you prefer.

- There is no price difference for your Dynamics AX 2012 R3 licenses whether you are deploying Dynamics AX 2012 R3 on Azure or deploying it on-premises. It is the same license for either deployment method.

- When deploying Dynamics AX 2012 R3 on Azure, you are utilizing the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities of Microsoft’s cloud.

• You will need your own Azure subscription • You will need to determine the different services including Compute, Data Services (which includes

storage), App Services, and Networking that your organization need .• Lifecycle services Cloud hosted environment tool is available to customer , or any registered partner so

need to verify whether can log on to LCS services.

• Purchase an Azure Subscription , support plan, and get familiar with Azure management portal.• Understand the billing process• Consider legal and regulatory requirements.

AX 2012 R3 OnMicrosoftAzureOverview

Documents

Transcript of AX 2012 R3 OnMicrosoftAzureOverview