Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations

The goal of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Foundations series is to help enterprise IT departments and cloud service providers understand, develop, and implement IaaS infrastructures. This series provides comprehensive conceptual background that combines Microsoft software, consolidated guidance, and validated configurations with partner technologies such as compute, network, and storage architectures, in addition to value-added software features.

The IaaS Foundations Series utilizes the core capabilities of the Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system, Hyper-V, System Center 2012 R2, Windows Azure Pack and Microsoft Azure to deliver on-premises and hybrid cloud Infrastructure as a Service.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations (this article)

Chapter 2: Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Compute Foundations

Chapter 3: Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Network Foundations

Chapter 4: Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Storage Foundations

Chapter 5: Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Virtualization Platform Foundations

Chapter 6: Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Design Patterns–Overview

Chapter 7: Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations—Converged Architecture Pattern

Chapter 8: Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations-Software Defined Architecture Pattern

Chapter 9: Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations-Multi-Tenant Designs

Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service Foundations is written and presented in a way that enables architects, designers, implementers and operators to view the content that is most relevant to them. Some readers will choose the read the entire “book”, while others will focus on areas that are most interesting and relevant to them.

At this time, the Microsoft IaaS Foundations “book” is available in web format only. In the coming days, individual files (one for each chapter) and a single file that represents a compilation of all the chapters, will be made available for download. A link to these files will be included in this article, and in each of the articles included in this “book”.

The world of cloud computing moves quickly and the underlying technologies supporting the infrastructure that powers the cloud change and improve just as fast. For this reason, each of the chapters includes a published date and the versions of the software that are discussed in the text. For non-versioned software and services (such as Microsoft Azure), a note of “feature set and capabilities as of…” date is included.

Your feedback is crucial

A lot of time, energy and expense goes into creating this kind of information. And while it has been a labor of love for all of us involved here at Microsoft, we need to know from you if you find this information valuable and if you want us to update this information on a periodic basis. If you communicate to us that you want and need updated versions of this “book”, because you find it indispensable for architecting and designing your cloud infrastructures, then please leave a comment below, or write to me, Tom Shinder at tomsh@microsoft.com

Contributors:
Adam Fazio – Microsoft
David Ziembicki – Microsoft
Joel Yoker – Microsoft
Artem Pronichkin – Microsoft
Jeff Baker – Microsoft
Michael Lubanski – Microsoft
Robert Larson – Microsoft
Steve Chadly – Microsoft
Alex Lee – Microsoft
Yuri Diogenes – Microsoft
Carlos Mayol Berral – Microsoft
Ricardo Machado – Microsoft
Sacha Narinx – Microsoft
Tom Shinder – Microsoft
Jim Dial – Microsoft

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Hi Havard - Thanks! There was a hold up for the holidays, and I'm waiting for just a few more people to ask for a the book. -Tom.
• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Hi Martin -
  Thanks! I appreciate the kind words and I'll let the rest of the team know that you like what you see so far.
  In fact, we do some content on design patterns for disaster recovery and design patterns around those - let me assess what resource we have to surface that information. Thanks! -Tom.
• Anonymous
  November 24, 2014
  Thank you for providing this valuable information! Its a very useful and logical structured reference for developing MS IaaS infrastructures.
  
  For me it would be very helpful if future versions of this "awesome book" would also include design patterns covering Multi-Site scenario's providing HA and DR from both a Management and Tenant perspective.
• Anonymous
  January 06, 2015
  Great stuff! When will the "book" be available?
• Anonymous
  January 08, 2015
  I would love a book version of this information :)
• Anonymous
  January 16, 2015
  ... in this case I'll jump right in: Where's the book :-) ?