In summary, I submit that these features,
these Hyper‑V features that we've been discussing,
particularly in this lesson,
highlight some differences between local Windows Server
administration and Azure Windows Server administration.
I want you to think about the high availability
options that Microsoft Azure offers.
The Azure administrator and Azure solution architect certifications
and associated Pluralsight learning paths will give you a very deep
coverage of all of those options,
but let me just mention it this way or let me state it this way,
instead of setting up multiple VMs in Azure to host a
database and a failover cluster,
you might want to think about using a Platform as a Service hosted database
like Azure SQL database that gives you a much easier setup workflow and can
give you potentially much higher levels of availability than if you do it all
in an Infrastructure as a Service context.
Likewise, in Azure, we've got several load balancers that you can use,
instead of the network load balancer, that's built into the operating system.
I mean think of it this way,
your web server running in a VM probably has enough work to do anyway.
Do you really want to burden it with NLB?
I don't.
And then lastly,
that piece I mentioned about SR‑IOV is a way to
improve network throughput for your VMs,
and you have to have hardware in your host that supports SR‑IOV.
You have to enable and configure, there is quite a bit of overhead there.
In Azure,
simply choose a VM size that supports Azure accelerated networking,
and those VMs are SR‑IOV‑ed right out of the gate.
And then, lastly, as you saw in the first demo,
you pretty much can count on massaging your local
VHDs to prepare them for Azure,
and this is another reason why I keep harping on PowerShell so that you
can do these preparation exercises at great scale,
instead of clicking around one VHD at a time,
ain't nobody got time for that.
And speaking of time for that,
it's time for me to mention that the next lesson in this course
series is called Create and Manage Containers.
We'll get down and dirty with Docker and Windows Server containers.
I look forward to it, and I hope you do as well. Thank you very much.