July 2019

Webinar Series:

Azure Advanced Technologies In Practice

Azure stack Hybrid Cloud Platform

Petros PetrouCloud Technical Leader

Get in touch:p.petrou@logicom.net

Series of 10 Webinars beginning 24 July 2019

Based on the new Logicom’ s Azure Advanced Solutions Catalogue

One hour Webinar for each Advanced Solution in the Catalogue

Simple and consistent webinar structure:– Business Need, Proposed Solution, Solution Abstract, Solution Details, Solution Demo (where possible), Q & A

Easy registration for each webinar in the series at https://cloud.logicom.net/events/

Watch on demand the webinars recording at https://cloud.logicom.net/webinars/

Share reference solutions for business problems with combinations of Azure services

What is Webinar Series About?

Webinar Series Details

• Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Platform

• Build Serverless Applications on Cloud

• Build IoT Solutions on Cloud

• Build Intelligent Chatbots on Cloud

• Deliver Virtual Applications on Cloud

• Deliver Virtual Desktops on Cloud

• Big Data with Analytics on Cloud

• Securing & Monitoring Hybrid Cloud Environments

• Development & Testing in Cloud

• HPC Video Rendering in Cloud

Real life Business Requirement

Proposed Solution Abstract

Proposed Solution Details

o Solution Characteristics & Business Benefits

o Solution Architectural Components

o Deployment Guidance

o Solution Use cases

o Indicative Configuration

Q n A

Contoso, a Financial Services Provider company wants to bring new cloud services to their Datacentres and edge locations to deliver new hybrid cloud solutions to their internal business unit teams. Due to latency and regulatory compliance Contoso can’t use the public cloud for several scenarios.

The company needs a true hybrid cloud solution to deliver a consistent experience across their entire digital estate.

✓ Due to regulatory compliance all data must reside within the company’ s Datacenters✓ Billing must follow a pay-as-you-go consumption based model for all new deployments✓ Ensure the best possible user experience with the minimum possible latency✓ Maximize developer productivity by empowering them to build and deploy applications

the same way whether they run on premise or cloud

Business Need

Requirements

How can we help?

Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Platform

Solution Abstract✓What is Azure Stack

✓Why Azure Stack

✓ Azure Stack Partner Ecosystem

✓ Azure Stack Development Kit

✓ Azure Stack Key Concepts

Why Azure Stack?

Microsoft Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud platform that allows delivering Azure services in a company’s datacentre. This platform is designed to support evolving business requirements. Azure Stack can enable new scenarios for modern applications, such as edge and disconnected environments, or meet specific security and compliance requirements.

Azure stack is effectively an extension of Azure to consistently run hybrid applications on-premises.

What is Azure Stack?

Azure Stack Integrated Systems

Azure Stack integrated systems are multi-server systems meant for production use, and are designed to get customers up and running quickly. They are offered through a partnership of Microsoft and various hardware partners, creating a solution that offers cloud-paced innovation and computing management simplicity.

Because Azure Stack is offered as an integrated hardware and software system, companies have the flexibility and control they need, along with the ability to innovate from the cloud.

Azure Stack integrated systems range in size from 4-16 nodes, and are jointly supported by the hardware partner and Microsoft. Azure Stack integrated systems can be used to create new scenarios and deploy new solutions for any production workloads.

Azure Stack Integrated Partners

Azure Stack Development Kit

The Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) is a single-node deployment of Azure Stack that can be downloaded and used for free. All ASDK components are installed in virtual machines running on a single host server computer that must meet or exceed certain requirements.

The ASDK is meant to provide an environment in which companies can evaluate Azure Stack and develop modern applications using APIs and tooling consistent with Azure in a non-production environment.

The ASDK is designed to provide an Azure-consistent hybrid cloud experience for:

❑ Administrators: The ASDK is a great resource to evaluate and learn about the available Azure Stack services.

❑ Developers: The ASDK can be used to develop hybrid or modern applications on-premises (dev/test environments). This offers repeatability of development experience prior to, or alongside, Azure Stack production deployments.

Who will benefit using ASDK?

Deployment Connection Model: Choose to deploy Azure Stack either connected to the internet (and to Azure) or disconnected. To get the most benefit from Azure Stack, including hybrid scenarios between Azure Stack and Azure, its recommended to deploy connected to Azure, and this is the model adopted in this solution.

Billing model: Option to choose either Pay-as-you-use or the Capacity billing model. Pay-as-you-use billing model deployments must be able to report usage through a connection to Azure at least once every 30 days. Therefore, the Pay-as-you-use billing model is only available for connected deployments.

Subscriptions: For each Azure Stack, there is one default subscription and many tenant subscriptions. The default subscription is an Azure subscription that is charged if there isn't a tenant-specific subscription. Cloud Service Provider (CSP) subscriptions are the preferred choice for registration when a CSP reseller or an end customer operates Azure Stack.

Portal: The primary methods of interacting with Microsoft Azure Stack are the administrator portal, user portal, and PowerShell

Usage data: Microsoft Azure Stack collects and aggregates usage data across all resource providers, and transmits it to Azure for processing by Azure commerce. The usage data collected on Azure Stack can be viewed via a REST API.

Azure Stack Key Concepts:

Identity: Azure Stack uses either Azure Active Directory or Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) as an identity provider.

Personas: There are two varieties of users for Microsoft Azure Stack:

Cloud operator: Can configure Azure Stack and manage offers, plans, services, quotas, and pricing to provide resources for their tenants. Cloud operators also manage capacity and respond to alerts.

Tenant: (user) consumes services that the cloud administrator offers. Tenants can provision, monitor, and manage services that they havesubscribed to, such as Web Apps, Storage, and Virtual Machines.

Regions: Azure Stack regions are a basic element of scale and management. An organization may have multiple regions with resources available in each region. Regions may also have different service offerings available.

Services: Microsoft Azure Stack enables providers to deliver a wide variety of services and applications, such as virtual machines, SQL Server databases, SharePoint, Exchange, and more.

Plans: Plans are groupings of one or more services. Create plans to offer to tenants. In turn, tenants subscribe to offers to use the plans and services they include.

Offers: Offers are groups of one or more plans that tenants subscribe to. An offer comes with a set of base plans, and service administrators can create add-on plans that tenants can add to their subscription.

Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Platform

Azure Solution Details✓ Solution Characteristics and Business Benefits

✓ Solution Architectural Components

✓ Solution Use cases

✓ Key points of Consideration

✓ Implementation steps

✓ Indicative Configuration

✓ Chose any favorite hardware partner✓ Azure Stack integrated systems come full ready to operate✓ Flexibility to start with 4 and expand to 12 - 16 nodes✓ Extend Azure services and capabilities on-premises✓ Pay-as-you-use Azure Stack Software pricing✓ Azure Resource Manager is the Unified App Model✓ Integrate to company’s Datacenter network✓ Option of having Azure Stack delivered and operated as a

fully managed service

Solution Characteristics Business Benefits

✓ Address latency and connectivity requirements✓ Data resides locally in business datacenters✓ Meet regulatory and policy requirements✓ Same Azure Portal look and feel experience✓ Consistent application development✓ Integrated delivery experience✓ Pay only for what is consumed

Azure Stack Architectural Components *Indicative HW diagram for HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack

• Azure stack is constantly becoming available to many countries around the world by integrated partners. Here is the list of countries that it is currently supported.

• You can try Azure stack for free using the Azure Stack Development Kit, a single-server deployment option (Details)

• Azure Stack is delivered as an integrated system with software installed by Microsoft’s hardware partners on pre-qualified hardware

• Using Azure CSP Subscriptions with Azure Stack supports only connected deployment modes with Pay-as-you use billing

• Currently Azure stack Expansion Nodes must have identical configuration with the existing ones.

• It’s considered a best practice to begin with less nodes (min 4) with higher spec configuration, to maximize the expandability potential

• A list of Azure Marketplace items are available for Azure Stack (Details)

• Hardware Partners can offer hardware maintenance support. Microsoft CSP Partners offer support for Azure Stack Services.

• There are two key categories for Azure Stack deployments which refer to Customer Owned and Service Provider deployments (Details)

• Azure Stack Hardware Datasheets are available from hardware partners, for example HPE to help with the deployment capacity planning (Details)

1. Evaluate Azure Stack using ASDK

2. Provision an Azure CSP Subscription from Logicom Marketplace1

3. Find a Technology Partner for Azure Stack

4. Review Datacenter Integration Considerations for Azure Stack

5. Perform Capacity Planning using Azure Stack Capacity Planner

6. Technology Partner will implement Azure Stack System 2

7. Prepare and setup administrator’s management environment

8. Register Azure stack to Azure

9. Setup Identity for Azure Stack and additional Azure Stack Operators

10. Integrate Azure Stack with your datacenter Network

11. Download and Populate Azure Stack Marketplace offerings

12. Configure Plans, Offers and Quotas and Offer Selected Services 3

13. Optionally connect to Azure 4

14. Configure Backup and DR for Azure Stack

15. Monitor Azure Stack and Manage Updates

1. An Existing Azure CSP subscription can also be registered with Azure Stack2. Technology Partner takes care of delivery and installation of Azure Stack Hardware 3. Execute this step according to organization structure, business needs and scenario4. Option to connect Azure Stack with Azure VNets using S2S VPN or Express Route

*High level guide for Azure Stack licensed using a Connected deployment with CSP Azure Subscriptions

Indicative configuration and pricing summary

Notes:1. Reference sizing reflects minimum Azure Stack configuration from HPE2. *Usable refers to available resources for consumption

▪ Number of Regions: 1

▪ Number of Scale Units: 1

▪ Number of Nodes: 4

▪ Expandability Capacity (Nodes): 16

▪ *Usable Physical Cores: 72

▪ *Usable Memory (RAM): 1,2 TB

▪ *Usable Storage: 50 TB

▪ Caching (SSD): 24 SSD, 100k IOPS

Qty Product # Product DescriptionUnit Price

(EUR)

Extended List

Price (EUR)

4 Q8N42A HPE DL380 Gen10 with Microsoft Azure Stack Node 2127.00 8508.00

4 Q8N42A 001 HPE DL380 Gen10 with Microsoft Azure Stack FIO Node 1.00 4.00

4 826862-L21 HPE DL380 Gen10 Intel Xeon-Gold 6126 (2.6GHz/12-core/120W) FIO Processor Kit 2771.00 11084.00

4 826862-B21 HPE DL380 Gen10 Intel Xeon-Gold 6126 (2.6GHz/12-core/120W) Processor Kit 2771.00 11084.00

48 815100-B21 HPE 32GB (1x32GB) Dual Rank x4 DDR4-2666 CAS-19-19-19 Registered Smart Memory Kit 871.00 41808.00

4 826687-B21 HPE DL38X Gen10 2SFF Premium HDD Front NVMe or Front/Rear SAS/SATA Kit 240.00 960.00

8 826688-B21 HPE DL38X Gen10 2SFF HDD SAS/SATA Riser Kit 275.00 2200.00

48 872487-B21 HPE 4TB SAS 12G Midline 7.2K LFF (3.5in) SC 1yr Wty Digitally Signed Firmware HDD 587.00 28176.00

24 873363-B21 HPE 800GB SAS 12G Mixed Use SFF (2.5in) SC 3yr Wty Digitally Signed Firmware SSD 2740.00 65760.00

8 875498-B21 HPE 480GB SATA 6G Read Intensive M.2 2280 3yr Wty Digitally Signed Firmware SSD 820.00 6560.00

4 804326-B21 HPE Smart Array E208i-a SR Gen10 (8 Internal Lanes/No Cache) 12G SAS Modular Controller 290.00 1160.00

4 878783-B21 HPE Universal SATA HHHL 3yr Wty M.2 Kit 145.00 580.00

4 P8B31A HPE OneView w/o iLO including 3yr 24x7 Support 1-server FIO LTU 400.00 1600.00

4 864279-B21 HPE Trusted Platform Module 2.0 Gen10 Option 65.00 260.00

1 Q8N43A HPE DL360 Gen10 with Microsoft Azure Stack Management Node 2070.00 2070.00

1 Q8N43A 001 HPE DL360 Gen10 New MAS Region Node 1.00 1.00

1 860653-L21 HPE DL360 Gen10 Intel Xeon-Silver 4110 (2.1GHz/8-core/85W) FIO Processor Kit 855.00 855.00

1 860653-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 Intel Xeon-Silver 4110 (2.1GHz/8-core/85W) Processor Kit 855.00 855.00

12 815097-B21 HPE 8GB (1x8GB) Single Rank x8 DDR4-2666 CAS-19-19-19 Registered Smart Memory Kit 317.00 3804.00

4 P04476-B21 HPE 960GB SATA 6G Read Intensive SFF (2.5in) SC 3yr Wty Digitally Signed Firmware SSD 922.00 3688.00

1 804331-B21 HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 (8 Internal Lanes/2GB Cache) 12G SAS Modular Controller 560.00 560.00

1 P8B31A HPE OneView w/o iLO including 3yr 24x7 Support 1-server FIO LTU 400.00 400.00

1 864279-B21 HPE Trusted Platform Module 2.0 Gen10 Option 65.00 65.00

- Grouped Network Equipment - 60024.00

- Grouped Rack Equipement - 4402.00

- Grouped Power Supply Equipment - 9543.00

- Grouped Cable Equipment - 7338.00

- Grouped Services - 60510.00

- Grouped Support & Licenses - 41015.00

TOTAL 374,874.00

Scale Unit Requirements

Detailed Configuration:

Configuration Date: 04/12/18

Latency and Connectivity

Address latency and connectivity requirements by processing data locally in Azure Stack and then aggregating in Azure for further analytics, sharing common application logic across both.

Maximize developer productivity by empowering them to build and deploy applications the same way whether they run on Azure or Azure Stack. Implement a common DevOps approach across hybrid cloud environments.

Azure Stack enables to rapidly provision and deploy resources while preserving the secure data isolation of an on-premises environment. It provides private cloud security combined with public cloud flexibility.

Azure Stack allows companies to develop and deploy apps in Azure Stack to meet regulatory requirements. Also, if there is need to keep data in a country without an Azure Datacentre, they can securely be store on-premises with Azure Stack.

Security, data sovereignty and compliance

On-demand resources

Consistent application development

Questions?

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• Build Serverless Applications on Cloud

• Build IoT Solutions on Cloud

• Build Intelligent Chatbots on Cloud

• Deliver Virtual Applications on Cloud

• Deliver Virtual Desktops on Cloud

• Big Data with Analytics on Cloud

• Securing & Monitoring Hybrid Cloud Environments

• Development & Testing in Cloud

• HPC Video Rendering in Cloud

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