Free Webinars - Azure Technologies in the Private Cloud

This is just an announcement that I will be holding a presentation related to my last whitepaper, published by Savision in the upcoming weeks.

Sign up for August 20^th by following this link: http://www.savision.com/webinar-azure-technologies-private-cloud-mvp-kristian-nese-august-20th

Sign up for August 21^st by following this link: http://www.savision.com/webinar-azure-technologies-private-cloud-mvp-kristian-nese-august-21st

During this session, I will walk through the importance of a private cloud and how you can make this become real with technologies from Microsoft.

Especially interesting is the focus on Windows Azure Pack that has gotten a lot of attention during the last months.

Dive in to see what Azure Pack is all about and what the benefits are.

I encourage you all to ask any questions during these webcast, as long as it is related to the content or Led Zeppelin ;-)

New whitepaper - Azure Technologies in the Private Cloud

New whitepaper – Azure Technologies in the Private Cloud

Together with Savision, I am glad to announce that a new whitepaper has been published.

The content is focusing on the Cloud OS – and especially the private cloud enabled by Windows Azure Pack.

If you find this interesting, I suggest that you download it and sign up for one of our free webinars in the near future.

Feedback is highly appreciated.

The whitepaper can be downloaded by following this link:

http://www.savision.com/resources/news/free-whitepaper-azure-technologies-private-cloud-mvp-kristian-nese

Whitepaper update!

Hi everyone. This is just a heads up for our upcoming update of our whitepaper.

Together with experts like Flemming, Damian, Daniel, Marc and Stan the man, we are proud to say that we are almost done with a major update.

We have added something very interesting to our whitepaper so that you can get the best experience on how to learn the configuration steps to deliver a multi-tenant infrastructure as a service cloud.

So, what have we done this time?

Windows Azure Pack plays an important role for the service provider cloud, as well as for the enterprises. 

We wanted to show how you can fully leverage the setup of a multi-tenant fabric, with NVGRE enabled, when using Windows Azure Pack together with Service Provider Foundation. Therefore, the scope was to add content that walks you through the configuration, so that you can have a complete WAP solution running, enabling the VM Cloud. 

The following content has been added:

·         Adding the VM Cloud Resource Provider – we will see how we can add the VMM cloud we will be creating in part 1 into Windows Azure Pack and use this foundation for our IaaS services.

·         Adding gallery Items to the VM Cloud – create and add Gallery Items to the VM cloud, so that tenants who subscribe to the plan, can deploy sophisticated services by simply clicking on a few buttons.

·         Configuring Remote Console with RD Gateway – We want to provide our tenants with the option of remote into their virtual machines, without requiring the VMs to be on a connected network.

·         Creating Plans – we will include our VM Cloud in a Plan so that tenants can subscribe and deploy workloads in our multi-tenant fabric, which also will cover explanation of our management stamp, architecture and modeling of clouds in VMM for use with Plans.

·         Tenant experience – the look and feel, as well as the experience for our tenants when subscribing to Plans.

·         Creating VM networks – how to create VM networks – using NVGRE in the fabric, combining both NAT and S2S VPN for hybrid environments.

·         Deploying workloads – deploy Active Directory Domain Controllers, SQL Servers and other customized VM roles to simplify the tenant experience.

When can we download the updated whitepaper?

The updated content should be available in the end of this week (we will let you know), and as always, we are looking forward to your feedback!

Updated Whitepaper for Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE (WSSC 2012)

Updated Whitepaper for Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE

We have finally updated the Whitepaper for Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE (WSSC 2012 R2) and you can now download it from http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Hybrid-Cloud-with-NVGRE-aa6e1e9a

What we have done:

·         Added some new content around best practices

·         Updated to 2012 R2 RTM/GA

·         Added HA Service Template for gateway VMs

·         Good old bug fixing

·         Troubleshooting

With this foundation, I can ensure that we are already working on something new in the context of cloud computing that will take advantage of NVGRE and the fabric setup we have.

If you have any feedback, questions etc, please use the Q&A at the TechNet site

White paper - Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE (WSSC 2012 R2)

A very interesting weekend is over, and we are happy to announce the release of our white paper that covers implementation and configuration of network virtualization with Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V, and System Center 2012 R2 - Virtual Machine Manager.


Download the white paper here

A couple of weeks ago, I was discussing network virtualization with a fellow MVP, Flemming Riis.
We decided quickly that we needed to embrace this technology and help the community to adopt it.
Generally speaking, NVGRE should be simple to implement, but when we add all the possible configuration options with VMM into the mix, we need to know what we are doing.
Let us be clear: if you consider to implement NVGRE, you should consider VMM to be mandatory. Period.

Flemming provided us with his own lab, running blades, SAN's and everything we needed to make this as realistic as possible.

Stanislav Zhelyazkov and Daniel Neumann had the role as technical reviewers and provided us with deep insight and helpful stuff that we either didn't know of, or had missed. Thank you guys.

Please note that this white paper is in its first release.
Once we reach RTM, additional content will be added.

- Site-2-Site VPN

- Self-service and tenants with Windows Azure Pack

If you have any comments or questions related to the white paper, please leave a comment.

thx.

-kn