Moving your SharePoint Development to Azure
Malin De SilvaSharePoint SpecialistExilesoft
About Me
• Experienced with SharePoint 2007/ 2010/ 2013
• Presenter at many meetups and conferences
• A BIG Azure fan.
Let’s Get to Know
SharePoint Developers?
Experienced with Azure?
Worked with Azure Virtual Machines?
SharePoint Development Experience on Azure?
Agenda
Introduction Planning infrastructure Azure VMs for SharePoint Capex vs Opex Cost saving tips Q and A
Running SharePoint on Azure
How much bandwidth required? Develop from ANYWHERE Can scale up easily/ quickly Resources are not idle when VMs are stopped No concerns on local storages Updates automatically if allowed Backup and restore mechanisms
Our Team 5 Members
Full Trust Solutions
1 SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
5 SharePoint 2013 Development Environments
1 QA Environment
Planning Infrastructure – Developer Machines
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Planning Infrastructure – Developer Machines
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DemonstrationCreating a Network and a Virtual Machine
Planning Infrastructure – Test Environment
Same Domain Controller
Database Server for QA
SharePoint WFE
SharePoint App Server
Azure VMs for SharePoint A series – General Purpose
Basic: 300 IOPS Standard: 500 IOPS
D/ DS Series – SSD + 60% faster G Series – Larger RAMs
INSTANCE
CORES
RAM DISK SIZE
PRICE
A0 1 0.75 GB 20 GB $0.02/hrA1 1 1.75 GB 70 GB $0.09/hrA2 2 3.5 GB 135 GB $0.18/hrA3 4 7 GB 285 GB $0.36/hrA4 8 14 GB 605 GB $0.72/hrA5 2 14 GB 135 GB $0.33/hrA6 4 28 GB 285 GB $0.66/hrA7 8 56 GB 605 GB $1.32/hr
Capex vs OpexVirtual Machine
A1 (DC) A5 (Developer)
A6 (Database) A3 (QA)
No. of machines 1 5 1 3Cost per hour (USD)
0.09 0.33 * 5 = 1.65 0.66 0.36 * 3 = 1.08
Active hours per month
220 220 220 33
Annual Cost (USD)
237.6 4356 1742.4 427.7
Total Cost per Year (USD) 6763.7 ~ 6,040 EURAssumptions:
Each machine will stay started for 10 hours daily for 22 days a month. QA server will remain up every quarter for 10 days with 10 hours per day.We will keep creating full trust code through the year.
Cost Saving Tips Auto scaling or Automation
License mobility
Start with Windows Server installations
DemonstrationAuto scaling, Automating
Summary Potentials on cloud Better planning for VMs Cost estimations License mobility Auto scaling and automating
Questions?
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