This is multipart project overview. The brief here was to create a high level design for a virtual datacentre in Azure for a company looking to move the contents of a datacentre and few other sites with On-premise server infrastructure to the cloud.
Part Two goes through the genaral Azure reources required for the design.
All code and documentation is available at https://github.com/jmattmacd/AzureVirtualDatacentre
Part One – Overview and Scoping
Part Two – General Azure Resources
Part Three – Network Resources
Part Four – Server Infrastructure Resources
Azure Tenant
All resources can be created in a single or existing tenant. For the benefit of future Azure AD integration, it may be preferable to use the tenant for the already existing Directory.
Azure Subscription
A new subscription can be created for the virtual data center. An existing subscription can be used as all objects will go into their own resource group.
The subscription name has not been specified in this design as future usage may prefer to use isolated subscriptions per application with Cross-Subscription network peering resulting in multiple subscriptions for which a naming convention will need to be created.
Azure Resource Group
A single resource Group called JMM_RG01 will be created in region UK South.
A code snippet for this component is below: [01] – Create Resource Group.ps1
# connect-azurermaccount
New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name "JMM_RG01" -Location UKSouth 