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Introductio
The book you are holding is the result of 20 years of experience in the IT world; over 15 years of
virtualization experience that started with VMware, Virtual PC, and now Hyper-V; and many
years focusing on public cloud solutions, especially Microsoft Azure. My goal for this book
is simple: to make you knowledgeable and effective in architecting and managing an Azure-
based public cloud environment. If you were to look at the scope of Azure functionality in a
sin
le book, that book would be the size o
the Enc
c
o
e
ia Britannic
. M
ocus
or this book is
the infrastructure-related services, includin
virtual machines in Azure, stora
e, networkin
,
an
some comp
ementar
tec
no
o
ies. I wi
a
so s
ow
ou
ow to automate processes usin
technolo
ies such as PowerShell, how to inte
rate Azure with
our on-premises infrastructure
to create a
ri
so
ution, an
ow to use Azure as a
isaster recover
so
ution. A
t
ou
public cloud infrastructure services are relativel
new, Microsoft is one of onl
two vendors that
quali es as a leader for a solution in the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Gartner
Ma
ic Quadrant. In addition, Azure is bein
used b
man
of the lar
est companies in the world
I am a stron
believer that doin
is the best wa
to learn somethin
. I therefore hi
hl
encoura
e
ou to tr
out all the technolo
ies and principles I cover in this book. Because Azure
is a public cloud solution,
ou don’t need an
local resources except for a machine to connect to
Azure an
use PowerS
e
. I
ea
y, you wi
a
so
ave a sma
on-premises
a
environment to
test t
e networ
ing to Azure an
y
ri
scenarios,
ut you
on’t nee
a
uge
a
environment.
For most o
the items, you can use a single Windows Server machine with 8 GB o
memory to
enable a
ew virtual machines to run concurrently. In this book, sometimes I provide step-by
step instructions to gui
e you t
roug
a process, sometimes I provi
e a
in
to an externa
source t
at a
rea
y
as a goo
step-
y-step gui
e, an
sometimes I provi
e a
in
to my vi
eos
to ensure maximum un
erstan
ing
This book was one o
the most challenging I’ve written. Azure is updated so
requently
that it was necessary to update the book while writing as capabilities changed. The Microso
t
product group teams helped greatly, giving me early access to in
ormation and even
environments to enable the book to be as current as possible. To keep the content relevant, I
wi
e up
ating t
e
igita
version regu
ar
y, a n
I
ave create
an app
ication, Mastering
Azure IaaS, avai
a
e in t
e Win
ows Store, t
at provi
es easy access to t
e externa
in
s,
videos, and code samples I use in this book (which I will also update with new information).
You can download the application from
www.savillte.ch/mstrazureap
and from the
Windows Store (see the following gure). You must download this application and use it as a
companion to the book. As
ou read each chapter, look at the application for videos and other
information that will help your understanding. I do not speci cally call these references out in
the text of the book