Microsoft Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture - Fabric Architecture & Fabric Management Architecture Guide

I get a ton of queries on how do we architect or build a Hybrid and Private Cloud from customers. In such a scenario, the most commonly referred to documentation that I refer to is the Infra-As-A-Service Product Line Architecture (PLA).

Microsoft provides PLA's from a variety of workloads and Line of Business architecture guidance. The PLA's, are a series of prescriptive guidance documents, that help you architect/ design your workloads on the basis of certain stringent testing and architecture guidance that we have put together thru years of sustained knowledge gathering. I hope this IAAS PLA documentation helps you put together an agile, elastic and highly scalable Private/ Hybrid Cloud IAAS in place.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38817

This document provides customers with the necessary guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure in accordance with the IaaS PLA patterns that are identified for use with the Windows Server 2012 operating system. This document provides specific guidance for developing fabric architectures (compute, network, storage, and virtualization layers) of an overall private cloud solution.

 

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Management Architecture Guide
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38813

This document provides customers with the necessary guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure in accordance with the IaaS PLA patterns that are identified for use with the Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. This document provides specific guidance for developing a management architecture for an overall private cloud solution.

Cheers!