Microsoft Cloud computing Windows Azure "Clouds"

In the "cloud" of the times, how can less Microsoft's figure? As Microsoft's public cloud solution, Windows Azure refers to the cloud computing platform running at Microsoft's Data center. Structurally speaking, the Windows Azure platform is divided into two parts, the cloud computing operating system and the development Package SDK. For developers, it provides a familiar development experience and good on-demand scalability.

Windows Azure Platform Components

The following illustration is an architectural diagram of the Windows Azure platform. As mentioned earlier, as a cloud computing platform, Windows Azure is deployed in the "cloud" side of lavender.

The blue area at the bottom is Windows Azure. As the underlying cloud computing operating system, Windows Azure provides a Windows environment for the operation of the upper-level Microsoft Data Center applications and the storage of massive amounts of data. In short, Windows Azure features three big chunks: computing, storage, and management. Details are given below.

The green area in the middle is Windows Azure AppFabric. As the cloud's basic service provider, Windows Azure AppFabric provides cloud services for cloud-based applications, across network boundaries, firewalls, control validation, and distributed caching.

The red area in the middle is SQL Azure. As we all know, database service is a very important basic function of cloud, SQL Azure provides SQL Server based relational database service for cloud, mainly includes: Cloud relational database, continuous development model, automation management, etc.

The purple area on the right is Windows Azure marketplace. As the Microsoft Cloud Solution provides the on-line service interface, provides the customer various cloud data and the cloud application payment service.

With these operating systems and related components that support the interface, customer applications and data can be flexible and free to make "cloud" driving fog.

Windows Azure Cloud Computing operating system detailed

As mentioned above, Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing operating system, which is mainly divided into three parts: computing, storage and management. Below, we combine Windows Azure's architecture diagram to get an insight into what Windows Azure is.

The small image in the lower left corner is the Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform architecture diagram, and the upper-right oval large image is a magnified Windows Azure Cloud Operating system architecture diagram.

The blue "Compute" box in the middle is responsible for the computing module, which refers to Microsoft's application server, Windows Server, which provides a variety of Windows Azure cloud computing services for applications. These applications are not limited to C#,VB programs based on. NET Framwork and are also applicable to C++,java programs outside of the. NET Framework. For developers, they can choose Visual Studio or other Ides.

The blue "Storage" box in the middle is responsible for storage modules that support the storage of binary large data object blobs, providing data queuing services for data traffic between Windows Azure applications. In addition, Windows Azure's enclosure provides simple relational database table lookup capabilities, and for complex advanced features, SQL Azure is needed.

In addition to all the components, loosely speaking, we become Windows Azure's management function. As shown in the black area below, Windows Azure, as a cloud computing system, runs in hundreds of thousands of cloud data centers in a cluster of machines, playing the role of manager by the blue "Fabric controlller" module below, which is transparent to the upper floors, The behavior of all machines is consistent, like a machine. The Blue CDN module on the top right provides the caching service for the data. The blue "Connect" module on the left provides connection services for Windows Azure applications.

Below, we detail Windows Azure's two core modules, Windows Azure compute,windows Azure Storage.

1. Windows Azure Compute

Windows Azure's Computing module, Windows Azure Compute, supports three Windows Azure applications, as shown in the Web role program, Worker role Program, VM role program, respectively. The simple understanding is that the Web role type refers to the web-based application,worker role type, which refers to the windows-based APPLICATION,VM role type referring to the Windows Server 2008 R2 mirroring. Windows Azure Creator is a combination of more than three types of role.