Moving your SharePoint Development to Azure

Malin De SilvaSharePoint SpecialistExilesoft

malindesilva@live.com

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

malindesilva@live.com

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?