TechEd NZ 2014: Azure and Sharepoint

Azure and SharePoint

Aben SamuelSenior SharePoint and Technical ConsultantIntergen

DCIM211

Who am I?

Working for Team Yellow in Auckland

Live and breath Infrastructure and SharePoint

Motorbikes

Drink quite a bit of Coffee

@[email protected]://wellytonian.com

“SharePoint is a Hardware-Eating Monster”

Agenda

Why Azure?

Why do SharePoint on Azure?

What keeps it ticking?

What are the lessons learnt?

Why Azure?

By 2015, 35% of enterprise IT expenditures for most organizations will be managed outside the IT department’s budget.

2015 IT budget

Source: Gartner Predicts, Gartner, 2011

2020

By 2020, cloud will represent nearly 30% of all IT spending

Source: IDC Black Book 2013, IDC, 2013

Azure Platform ScaleWinter Olympics in SochiComputing and Storage for live video encoding and streaming

100 Million viewers

2.1 Million Concurrent users during US vs Canada Hockey

Azure Platform ScaleTitanfall – Multiplayer gameDay 1 Microsoft fired up over 100,000 Azure Virtual Machines

Over 300,000 cores dedicated to the VMs

Azure Platform ScaleHosting over 300 Million Active Directory Users

18 Billion Authentications per week

Azure Storage has over 25 Trillion objects with over 2.5 Million transactions per second for file requests from users

Azure

HyperscaleHybrid Capabilities

Enterprise Capabilities

Azure footprint

16 regions worldwide in 2014

IT Challenges

Save cost and increase revenue

Bring in more and more innovation into the organization

Users demand a higher quality of experience across their enterprise solutions

Business process driving towards new outcomes

Opportunity

System Administrators

Transition

Value Added Service Brokers

The most important cloud characteristic is the ability to migrate workloads between public and private cloudNorth American CloudTrac Survey, IDC, 2012

Public Private

Service Level Agreements

What’s includedCompute Hardware failure (disk, CPU, memory)Datacenter failures - Network failure, power failureHardware upgrades, Software maintenance – Host OS Updates

What is not includedVM Container crashes, Guest OS Updates

99.95% for multiple role instances4.38 hours of downtime per year

What are Infrastructure Services?

Cloud Based Virtual Machines Hyper-V Based Hosting Technology

Run workloads in Azure that were traditionally run on-premises

What are Infrastructure Services?NetworkingPrivate IPV4 Network support, and hybrid connectivity to

on-premises

Access Control Lists, External and Internal Load Balancing,

Reserved IPs

Cloud Models On Premises

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Data

Applications

Runtime

You m

anage

Infrastructure(as a Service)

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Data

Applications

Runtime

Managed b

y M

icroso

ft

You m

anage

Platform(as a Service)

Managed b

y M

icroso

ft

You m

anage

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Applications

Runtime

Data

Software(as a Service)

Managed b

y M

icroso

ft

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Applications

Runtime

Data

SharePoint Cloud Continuum

CONTROL

CO

ST-E

FF

ICIE

NC

Y

SharePoint (On-premises)

• SharePoint

• Full h/w control – size/scale• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale

• 100% of API surface area• Easy migration of existing

apps• Roll-your-own HA/DR/scale

SharePoint (IaaS)• Hosted SharePoint

• Auto HA, Fault-Tolerance• Friction-free scale• Self-provisioning, mgmt. @

scale

• SharePoint Service

Office 365 (SaaS)

Recommended SharePoint Solutions for Azure IAASDevelopment and Test Platforms

Intranet and Collaboration Platforms

Disaster Recovery of On-Premises SharePoint Farm to Azure

Internet Facing sites that use features and scale out not available in Office 365

Development and Test Platform

Its easy to create and manage these environments

Value Delivered

FastQuickly get new SharePoint developers on your projects up and running with little downtime.

Quickly get new system test environments provisioned.

Reduced CostTear down developer machines when vendors leave the project.

Reduced capital expenditures as no laptops need to be issued to new developers.

Tear down system test environments when not in use or a particular release has finished.

Integrate the customer’s vendors easily. The customer doesn’t have to add the vendor to the corporate domain.

Reduced Operations

MSDN Azure BenefitMSDN products can be

used on Virtual Machines

Single monetary credit (e.g. VPN gateway fee, no overspending)

Focuses on Dev/Test Usage

R

DemoCreate a development SharePoint 2013 Server

@neop26Aben Samuel#DCIM211

Intranet and Collaboration Solutions and WorkloadsSome ConsiderationsDetermine if O365 meets business requirements

If O365 does not meet all your business requirements, consider a standard implementation of SharePoint 2013 on Premises

If using a cloud platform is important for your business requirements, use Azure. SharePoint solutions are easier to support in Azure than other non-native Microsoft public cloud platforms

Disaster Recovery of On-Premises SharePoint 2013 WorkloadHosted Secondary DatacentreUse Azure instead of investing in secondary datacentre in a different region

Lower-cost disaster recovery environmentsMaintain and pay for fewer resources than on-premises DR environment. Cold, Warm or Hot Standby

More Elastic PlatformIn the event of disaster, easily scale-out your recovery SharePoint farm to meet load requirements.

IaaS And Disaster Recovery

Cloud ServiceVirtual Network

Windows Azure

SQL DR1(A6)

SP DR1

(Large)

AD1(X-Small)

On Premises

Web servers

Application servers

SQL DR2(A6)

SP DR2

(Large)

SP DR4

(Large)

SP DR5

(Large)

SP DR3

(Large)

Directory servers

SQL Server Log Shipping

VPN Tunnel

DemoDisaster Recovery of SharePoint to Azure Workload


Internet Facing Sites using SharePoint on AzureFocus on developing a great site rather than building infrastructure

Take advantage of elasticity in AzureSize the farm for demand and pay only for resources you need.

Use Azure Active DirectoryTaking advantage of Azure AD for customer (External) accounts.

Add SharePoint functionality not available within O356

Extranet and Public-Facing Internet

Cloud Service

Virtual Network

Windows Azure On Premises

Active Directory

Site developers and authors

VPN Tunnel

SharePoint 2013 Farm

Web Application

Windows Azure Active Directory

Internet Zone

Anonymous

Extranet Zone Default Zone

WindowsWindows

SAML

FBA Active DirectoryDomain Services

Partners and Customers

Visitors

SharePoint farms in Microsoft Azure

Virtual Machine Instance Size

Azure Portal Deployment

Affinity Groups

Azure Storage and Disks

Azure Networking

Availability Sets

PowerShell for Automation

Virtual Machine Instance SizesSize Name CPU Cores Memory Max. data disks Max. IOPS

ExtraSmall Shared 768 MB 1 1x500

Small 1 1.75 GB 2 2x500

Medium 2 3.5 GB 4 4x500

Large 4 7 GB 8 8x500

ExtraLarge 8 14 GB 16 16x500

A5 2 14 GB 4 4X500

A6 4 28 GB 8 8x500

A7 8 56 GB 16 16x500

A8 8 56 GB 16 16x500

A9 16 112 GB 16 16x500

Each data disk can hold up to 1 TB of storage.

SharePoint Virtual Machines

Azure Portal

Create new VM from image gallery

Virtual Machine booted. Changes direct-write

to blob storage

Log in toWindows Azure

Management Portal

The image is copied toyour blob storage account

Affinity Groups

Closely locate your compute, network and storage resources in the same datacentre

Get better performance

Get lower latency

Reduce egress costs

AffinityGroup

Persistent Disks And Highly Durable

Windows Azure Storage

Windows Azure Storage (Disaster Recovery)

Virtual Machine

Persistent Disks And Highly Durable

Windows Azure Storage

Windows Azure Storage (Disaster Recovery)

Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine

Protocols And Endpoints

Port Forwarded EndpointsDirect communication to multiple VMs in the same cloud app

Support for All IP-Based Protocols (VM to VM)Instance-to-instance communicationTCP, UDP, and ICMP, dynamic ports

UDP Traffic Supported in WALoad-balanced incoming traffic and allows outbound traffic

Custom Load Balancer Health ProbesHealth check with probe timeoutsHTTP-based probing, allowing granular control of health checks

Windows Azure

WA Gatew

ay

On-premises

Your datacenter

Hardware VPN or Windows RRAS

Virtual Network

<subnet 1>

<subnet 2>

<subnet 3>

DNS Server

Site-to-Site VPN

Virtual Networks – Site-to-Site

Windows Azure

On-premises

Your datacenter

Individual computers behind corporate firewall

Point-to-Site VPN

Remote workers

Virtual Networks – Point-to-Site

Virtual Network

<subnet 1>

<subnet 2>

<subnet 3>

DNS Server

Hardware VPN or Windows RRAS

Site-to-Site VPN

WA Gatew

ay

DemoVPN Connectivity with Azure


External Load Balancing

Load BalancerExternal – public sites

Uses health probes for additional availability

Use Reserved IP for Public IP addresses or map external domains using a CNAME

AD-VM-01Subnet AD10.0.2.4


SP-WFW-01Subnet WEB

10.0.3.4

Cloud Service

SP-WFE-02Subnet WEB

10.0.3.5

AV Set: ADAV Set: SPWFE

SP-APP-01Subnet APPS

10.0.4.4


10.0.4.5

AV Set: SPAPP

SQL-AO-01Subnet SQL

10.0.1.5

SQLWITNESSSubnet SQL

10.0.1.6

SQL-AO-01Subnet SQL

10.0.1.4

AV Set: SQL


SP-WFE-02Subnet WEB

10.0.3.5


10.0.4.5

SPVNET

Load Balancing With Always On Listener

SQL Always On uses external load balancer for listener virtual name.

Use Reserved IP for Public IP. SQL AO will stop working if external IP changes.



SP-WFW-01Subnet WEB

10.0.3.4

Cloud Service

SP-WFE-02Subnet WEB

10.0.3.5



10.0.4.4


10.0.4.5

AV Set: SPAPP

SQL-AO-01Subnet SQL

10.0.1.5

SQL-AO-03Subnet SQL

10.0.1.6

SQL-AO-01Subnet SQL

10.0.1.4

AV Set: SQL


SP-WFE-02Subnet WEB

10.0.3.5


10.0.4.5

SPVNET

Access Control ListsUsed to restrict access to endpoints Protect SQL Listener Load Balanced EndpointAdd Permit rule for SharePoint Cloud Service IP(Denies everyone else)

Internal Load Balancing

Virtual Network Address Space: 10.0.0.0/16


SP-WFW-01Subnet WEB

10.0.1.4

Cloud Service

SP-WFE-02Subnet WEB

10.0.1.5



10.0.2.4


10.0.2.5

AV Set: SPAPP

SQL-AO-01Subnet SQL

10.0.3.5

SQLWITNESSSubnet SQL

10.0.3.6

SQL-AO-01Subnet SQL

10.0.3.4

AV Set: SQL

SP-WFE-02Subnet WEB

10.0.1.5


10.0.2.5

AD-DC-01192.168.0.1

AD-DC-02192.168.0.2

On Premises192.168.0.0/16


OtherServers

Active Directory ReplicationAccess on-premises resources Access intranet over hybrid connection

https://spintranet Map to: 10.0.0.100

Set Internal Load Balancer IPNew-AzureInternalLoadBalancerConfig

http://spintranet

Hybrid Connection

Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine

Availability Sets

Get SLA by deploying multiple instances in availability sets

Ensure availability during updates & maintenance

Architect availability into the application

Web Front End Tier

Availability Set #1

Front End ServicesDistibuted Cache

Workflow Manager Query Processing



Index Partion #0 Index Partion #0Replica



ReplicaReplica

XL - 8 cores / 14GB

C: (System) 127GBD: (Page File, Blob Cache) 604GBE: (Log) 40GBF: (Index) 500GB



XL - 8 cores / 14GB XL - 8 cores / 14GB

Replica



XL - 8 cores / 14GB


App Server Tier

Availability Set #2

Content Processing

Admin

Crawl

Analytics Back End Services

Content Processing

Admin

Crawl


C: (System) 127GBD: (Page File) 604GBE: (Log) 40GBF: (Analytics) 300GB



Content Processing

Admin

Crawl



XL - 8 cores / 14GB

Data Server Tier

Availability Set #3

Availability Group #1



Search

Content

Content

Configuration

Service Applications

C: (System) 127GBD: (Page File) 604GBE:, F:, G:, H: (TempDB Files) 500GBI: (TempDB Logs) 500GBL: (Transaction Logs) 500GBJ:, K:, M:, N: (Content Data) 1024GBO: (Search Databases) 1024GB



Content

Content

Configuration

Service Applications


XL - 8 cores / 14GB

PowerShell for Automation and Advanced Management

AutomationQuery, manage and configure – at scale:

Virtual Machines

Storage across multiple subscriptions and storage accounts

Tiered deployment workflows

Virtual MachinesConfigure storage and networking

Domain join to AD on-premises

Bring your own machine images or disks

Use remote PowerShell

Virtual NetworkConfigure Virtual Network

Manage configuration and gateway

Connect to on-premises networks

StorageUpload & download VHDs from storage accounts to on-premises

Copy VHDs between storage accounts and subscriptions

Demo PowerShell for Automation and Management


SharePoint 2013Deployment Tips

Use Static IP’s

Install SharePoint on C Drive

Put each SharePoint logical tier into its own Availability Set (WFE, APP)

Put blob cache onto a data disk for higher IOPS.

Do not use “D:\” drive for any application information

SharePoint 2013SQL Server Best Practices

Split Content databases across multiple disks

Verify Disk Cache Settings on Data Disks

Put database and transactional logs on separate disks


Use SQL Server File Groups instead of Disk Stripping

SharePoint is almost married to TempDB – Split and move

TempDB onto its own Data Disk

Consider latency when looking at HA options


Do not use temporary disk “D:\”

Spend time doing capacity planning on Storage Account.

20,000 IOPS per Storage Account – 500 IOPS per disk

SharePoint 2013Scale Out Not Up

Move content database to separate SQL Servers

Move search databases onto separate SQL Servers

Add more WFE for scaling SharePoint services

Add dedicated Search Servers and SQL Server

SharePoint 2013Active Directory Design Considerations

Should be deployed in a Virtual Network

Specify Static IP to ensure persistence

AD should be deployed within its own Subnet

SYSVOL Location

Deploy it to a Data Disk or disable OS Disk Caching on C:\

Summary

Why Azure?




Don’t just deploy SharePoint…. Plan it out !

“SharePoint is a Hardware-Eating Monster”

“Azure is food”

Related contentBreakout Sessions

Creating Enterprise SharePoint solutions in the cloud (OFC202)To the Cloud and Fast(Automating SharePoint Online Deployments) (OFC307)SharePoint Solution Architecture for NZ Size Deployments (OFC320)StorSimple vNext and Microsoft Azure (DCIM313)

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Azure and SharePoint

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