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In summary, I submit that these features,

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these Hyper‑V features that we've been discussing,

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particularly in this lesson,

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highlight some differences between local Windows Server

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administration and Azure Windows Server administration.

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I want you to think about the high availability

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options that Microsoft Azure offers.

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The Azure administrator and Azure solution architect certifications

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and associated Pluralsight learning paths will give you a very deep

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coverage of all of those options,

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but let me just mention it this way or let me state it this way,

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instead of setting up multiple VMs in Azure to host a

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database and a failover cluster,

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you might want to think about using a Platform as a Service hosted database

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like Azure SQL database that gives you a much easier setup workflow and can

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give you potentially much higher levels of availability than if you do it all

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in an Infrastructure as a Service context.

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Likewise, in Azure, we've got several load balancers that you can use,

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instead of the network load balancer, that's built into the operating system.

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I mean think of it this way,

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your web server running in a VM probably has enough work to do anyway.

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Do you really want to burden it with NLB?

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I don't.

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And then lastly,

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that piece I mentioned about SR‑IOV is a way to

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improve network throughput for your VMs,

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and you have to have hardware in your host that supports SR‑IOV.

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You have to enable and configure, there is quite a bit of overhead there.

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simply choose a VM size that supports Azure accelerated networking,

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and those VMs are SR‑IOV‑ed right out of the gate.

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And then, lastly, as you saw in the first demo,

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you pretty much can count on massaging your local

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VHDs to prepare them for Azure,

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and this is another reason why I keep harping on PowerShell so that you

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can do these preparation exercises at great scale,

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instead of clicking around one VHD at a time,

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ain't nobody got time for that.

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And speaking of time for that,

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it's time for me to mention that the next lesson in this course

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series is called Create and Manage Containers.

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We'll get down and dirty with Docker and Windows Server containers.

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I look forward to it, and I hope you do as well. Thank you very much.