Adopt Azure IaaS and migrate your on-premise infrastructure partially or fully to Azure. This
book provides practical solutions by following Microsoft's design and best practice guidelines
for building highly available scalable and secure solution stacks using Microsoft Azure IaaS.
The author starts by giving an overview of Azure IaaS and its components: you'll see the new
aspects of Azure Resource Manager storage in IaaS and Azure networking. As such you'll cover
design considerations for migration and implementation of infrastructure services giving you
practical skills to apply to your own projects. The next part of the book takes you through the
different components of Azure IaaS that need to be included in a resilient architecture and how
to set up a highly available infrastructure in Azure. The author focuses on the tools available
for Azure IaaS automated provisioning and the different performance monitoring and fine-tuning
options available for the platform. Finally you'll gain practical skills in Azure security and
implementing Azure architectures. After reading Practical Microsoft Azure IaaS you will have
learned how to map the familiar on-premise architecture components to their cloud
infrastructure counterparts. This book provides a focused and practical approach to designing
solutions to be hosted in Azure IaaS. What You Will Learn Map the key Azure components to
familiar concepts in infrastructure such as virtualization storage provisioning switching
and firewalls Implement Azure IaaS deployment architectures Design IaaS environments in line
with the Microsoft recommended best practices for scalability resiliency availability
performance and security Manage the operational aspects of hosted environments leverage
automation and fine tune for optimal performance Who This Book Is For Infrastructure and
solution architects with skills in on-premise infrastructure design who want to up-skill in
Azure IaaS.
