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Implementing SharePoint on Azure, Lessons Learnt from a Real World Project
This document discusses lessons learned from implementing SharePoint on Azure. It covers Azure architecture concepts like virtual networks, cloud services, availability sets, and load balancing. It provides an example reference architecture for a hybrid on-premises and Azure environment. It also discusses topics like database planning, disk performance, server topology with multiple tiers, and reserving IP addresses. The presentation aims to share best practices for deploying SharePoint on Azure based on a real-world project.
Implementing SharePoint on Azure, Lessons Learnt from a Real World Project
- 1. Implementing SharePoint onAzure. Lessons Learnt from a Real World Project K Mohamad Faizal, Microsoft Azure MVP www.zquad.in @kmdfaizal 66thth March 2015- 11AMMarch 2015- 11AM
- 2. Implementing SharePoint on Azure. LessonsLearnt from a Real World Project K Mohamad Faizal, Microsoft Azure MVP www.zquad.in / @kmdfaizal
- 3. Azure architecture conceptsfor SharePoint IT Pros 11 Virtual Network 22 Cloud Service 44 Reserve IP / Domain Name55 Database Planning and Disk Performance Load Balancer Configuration66 33 SharePoint Server Topology
- 4. Microsoft positioning forSharePoint in Microsoft Azure
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- 6. Example — Hybridon-premises and Azure Reference architecture for a Microsoft Azure-based environment to integrate an on-premises environment Virtual Network Windows Azure VPN Gateway Gateway subnet Active VPN Cloud Service Availability Set Active Directory & DNS Cloud Service Cloud Service Active Directory Windows Server 2012 RRAS Availability Set Front End Availability Set Distributed Cache Availability Set Search Front End Availability Set Search Backend Availability Set Backend On-premises environment Availability Set Database B Microsoft Azure
- 7. Virtual network A containerwhere you define the IP address ranges your virtual machines will use. Microsoft Azure uses infinite-lease DHCP addresses and you can’t assign static IP addresses. Virtual Network Windows Azure Active Directory Windows Server 2012 RRAS On-premises environment B Microsoft Azure
- 8. Site-to-Site VPN gatewayand subnet When you setup a VPN connection, the VPN service resides in a separate subnet. Microsoft Azure manages the primary and secondary instances of this service for high availability. You will not see the secondary instance. You do not need to configure high availability for the VPN service. Virtual Network Windows Azure VPN Gateway Gateway subnet Active VPN Active Directory Windows Server 2012 RRAS On-premises environment Standby VPN Not visible. Automatically configured and managed by Azure. B Microsoft Azure
- 9. Cloud services Cloud servicesare typically used to group VMs by role based on functionality that takes place at the cloud service level Virtual Network Windows Azure VPN Gateway Gateway subnet Active VPN Cloud Service Cloud Service Cloud Service Active Directory Windows Server 2012 RRAS On-premises environment Active Directory and DNS SharePoint Server roles Database servers Plan cloud services before creating VMs! B Microsoft Azure
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- 11. Availability sets andfault domains Configure identical server roles to be part of an availability set. This ensures that the VMs are spread across multiple fault domains. A fault domain is a grouping of hardware in which role instances run. Cloud Service Availability Set Active Directory & DNS Cloud Service Cloud Service Availability Set Front End Availability Set Distributed Cache Availability Set Search Front End Availability Set Search Backend Availability Set Backend Availability Set Database B
- 12. 12 Virtual Machine AvailabilitySets Putting two or more VMs in availability sets guarantees that your VMs are spread across multiple racks in the Azure Data Centers. This means redundant power supply, switches and servers. 99.95% SLA
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- 14. Use Larger MemorySKUs Number of Server Cores Server SKU Approx. Cost $/Month US-West RAM in GB Local Disk Size in GB 4 Cores A3 Basic $229 7 120 Std A3 Standard $268 7 285 Std A6 Standard $491 28 285 Std D3 $509 14 200 SSD D12 $600 28 200 SSD 8 Cores A4 Basic $458 14 240 Std A4 Standard $536 14 605 Std A7 Standard $982 56 605 Std D4 $1,018 28 400 SSD D13 $1,080 56 400 SSD
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- 16. Web Front EndTier Availability Set #1 Front End ServicesDistibuted Cache Workflow Manager Query Processing Front End ServicesDistibuted Cache Workflow Manager Query Processing Index Partion #0 Index Partion #0Replica Front End ServicesDistibuted Cache Workflow Manager Query Processing ReplicaReplica XL - 8 cores / 14GB C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File, Blob Cache) 604GB E: (Log) 40GB F: (Index) 500GB C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File, Blob Cache) 604GB E: (Log) 40GB F: (Index) 500GB C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File, Blob Cache) 604GB E: (Log) 40GB F: (Index) 500GB XL - 8 cores / 14GB XL - 8 cores / 14GB Replica Front End ServicesDistibuted Cache Workflow Manager Query Processing XL - 8 cores / 14GB C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File, Blob Cache) 604GB E: (Log) 40GB F: (Index) 500GB K
- 17. App Server Tier AvailabilitySet #2 Content Processing Admin Crawl Analytics Back End Services Content Processing Admin Crawl Analytics Back End Services C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File) 604GB E: (Log) 40GB F: (Analytics) 300GB C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File) 604GB E: (Log) 40GB F: (Analytics) 300GB XL - 8 cores / 14GB XL - 8 cores / 14GB Content Processing Admin Crawl Analytics Back End Services C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File) 604GB E: (Log) 40GB F: (Analytics) 300GB XL - 8 cores / 14GB K
- 18. Data Server Tier AvailabilitySet #3 Availability Group #1 Availability Group #2 Availability Group #3 Search Content Content Configuration Service Applications C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File) 604GB E:, F:, G:, H: (TempDB Files) 500GB I: (TempDB Logs) 500GB L: (Transaction Logs) 500GB J:, K:, M:, N: (Content Data) 1024GB O: (Search Databases) 1024GB XL - 8 cores / 14GB XL - 8 cores / 14GB C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File) 604GB E:, F:, G:, H: (TempDB Files) 500GB I: (TempDB Logs) 500GB L: (Transaction Logs) 500GB J:, K:, M:, N: (Content Data) 1024GB O: (Search Databases) 1024GB Content Content Configuration Service Applications C: (System) 127GB D: (Page File) 604GB E:, F:, G:, H: (TempDB Files) 500GB I: (TempDB Logs) 500GB L: (Transaction Logs) 500GB J:, K:, M:, N: (Content Data) 1024GB O: (Search Databases) 1024GB XL - 8 cores / 14GB K
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- 24. 25 Database Planning Set Minimum andMaximum Server Memory Max Degree of Parallelism = 1
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- 27. Resaved IP and LoadBalancer Configuration
- 28. Reserved IP Addresses •Incase virtual machines are shut down, your IP release and you will another IP when u restart you VM, Reserved IP help persistent the external IP • Reserved IP Addresses for Cloud Service Ips • Persistent external IP address even if all virtual machines are stopped or deleted. • The first 5 reserved IPs IN USE is free. If they are left unused you have to pay for them. • The pricing is cheap at $0.005 per hour per IP (~$4/month per IP). • EA subscriber your subscription is limited to at most 5 IPs. Set via the Azure PowerShell Cmdlets New-AzureReservedIP -ReservedIPName "myIP" ` -Location "West US" New-AzureVM -ReservedIPName "myIP" ...
- 29. Port Forwarding InputEndpoints • Cloud service has only one external IP address, port forwarding is used to direct various access requirements to the right location Port 3389 Port 3389 Port 53591 Port 6237 Remote Desktop connection Cloud Service
- 30. Configure External LoadBalancer • Azure Load Balancer to distribute a specific type of traffic between multiple virtual machines or services • Azure provides random distribution of the incoming traffic. Port 80 Port 80 Port 80 Cloud Service Cloud Service VIP
- 31. TCP Health Probe •The default load balancer probe settings are set to TCP • Load Balancer Probes Every 15 seconds • Looks for ACK on socket connect • Traffic stops until ACK received (two failures) • LB consider the node offline and will stop directing traffic to it • Continues Polling Port 80 Port 80 Port 80 Cloud Service Cloud Service VIP Probe
- 32. HTTP Health Probe •HTTP gives you a bit more flexibility and power on what actions you can take • Health probe every 15 seconds • ProbePath is essentially a relative HTTP URL on your web servers that will respond with an HTTP 200 if the server is fine and ANY other response if the node will be taken out of rotation • Continues polling until healthy Port 80 Port 80 Port 80 Cloud Service Cloud Service VIP Probe
- 33. Internet sites —lessons learned
- 34. Global Azure Bootcampin Singapore • 25th April 2015 • http://globalazurebootcampsg.azurewebsites.net • http://azuresgbootcamp.eventbrite.sg • http://www.meetup.com/mssgug/
- 35. Related Content Introduction toSharePoint and Windows Azure IaaS, By Kirk EvansIntroduction to SharePoint and Windows Azure IaaS, By Kirk Evans Architect, Azure Modern Apps COEArchitect, Azure Modern Apps COE SPC3992- SharePoint Solutions and Architectures on Windows Azure, By Kirk EvansSPC3992- SharePoint Solutions and Architectures on Windows Azure, By Kirk Evans Architect, Azure Modern Apps COEArchitect, Azure Modern Apps COE Architecting SharePoint for the Cloud, Jared Shockley, Sr. IT Service Engineer, MicrosoftArchitecting SharePoint for the Cloud, Jared Shockley, Sr. IT Service Engineer, Microsoft ITIT Michael Washam,Michael Washam, CEO – Opsgility – Microsoft Azure and DevOps TrainingCEO – Opsgility – Microsoft Azure and DevOps Training
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