ThisvideoispartoftheMicrosoft®VirtualAcademy.1Thissessionisgoingtocovertheinfrastructureoftheprivatecloud.We’regoingtoreallyunderstandwhatarethecriticalrequirementswhenwelookatthehardwaretodesignourownprivatecloudimplementation.Thisparticularsectionisgoingtoprovideanoverview,talkaboutsomeoftheplanningconsiderationsthatweneedwhendesigningthisinitialinfrastructure.Latermodulesaregoingtogofurtherinanalyzingtheinfrastructureandlookatactualdeploymentconfigurationaswellaslongtermmanagementofthiscorepieceoftheprivatecloudfabric.I’mSymonPerriman,atechnicalevangelistwithMicrosoft,andwiththissessionwearegoingtogiveyouabroadfoundationofeverythingyouneedtogetstarteddeployingyourprivatecloud.2Overtheyearstechnologyhasseenanumberoftransformations,fromtheintroductionofthemainframe…First,let’stakeaquicklookathowwegottowherewearetodaywiththecurrentdatacenter.Asyoumayremember,backinthedaywestartedwithamainframe.Itwasatechnologyfrommanyyearsagoandsincethenwehaveseenanumberoftransformations.3…theclientserver…Afterthemainframecametheclientservermodel.Youhaveaseparatelaptop,everybody’sconnectedtotheserver…4…totheworldwideweb…ThenwemovedovertotheWebandthewholeshifttherewasthinkingeverythingwasgoingtogoonline.5…tovirtualization.VirtualizationhasbeenadriverofefficiencyinITfornearlyadecade.Sincethen,thingshavekindofreturnedbacktothiswholedatacenteragain,oncewerealizedsomeofthebroadbenefitsofvirtualization.Andmanyofyououtthereareprobablyatthisstageinyourdeploymentmodel,whereyouhavebroadvirtualizationyethowdoyoutakeittothenextstep?6whatwillthatnexttransformationbe?Whatisthisnextstep?Whatwillthisnexttransformationbe?7Well,webelieveitistheconceptofITasaservice,inwhichcomponentsarereleasedandusedondemandasneeded.Insteadofbroadupfrontcapitalexpenditures,everythingisdonewhenneeded.Ifyouneedaserveryougetitondemandratherthanhavingtopurchaseitsixmonthsaheadoftime.UsingthisconceptofITasaservice,thisisourfoundationtowardswhatwecalltheprivat