ENMAX GIS in Azure May 16,2019 Background Why the Azure cloud? In - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ENMAX GIS in Azure

May 16,2019

Background – Why the Azure cloud?

• In 2016 ENMAX IT Infrastructure launched a Data

Centre Transformation project as ENMAX had out grown our on premise data center

• This move was also consistent with a ‘cloud first’

approach ENMAX was taking with respect to new technology spend

• Our IS support team assessed & moved various

applications/servers to Azure

• Project PRISM was also launched in 2016….our

ArcGIS/FM upgrade project

PRISM - ArcGIS/FM Upgrade

• Upgraded GDB and Desktop from 9.2 to 10.2.1
• Implementation of ArcGIS/FM Server 10.4.1 / 10.2.1
• Implementation of ArcFM Web
• Implementation of ArcFM Mobile iOS version
• Implementation of FME Sever

GIS in Azure – PRISM Design

• ESRIC provided a design that met our Azure requirement
• A key design constraint associated with Azure implementations is

higher network latency

• Latency constraint is especially true for ArcGIS/FM Desktop which was

designed to work on a Local Area Network (LAN) i.e. low network latency

• For ArcFM Web & Mobile, that were designed to work over http and a

WAN, this latency constraint does not exist

• Significant aspect of our design is that ArcGIS/FM Desktop is in

Azure…so it could be close to the GDB

GIS in Azure - Design

GIS in Azure – IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

GIS in Azure - Build

• LVS is our IT Infrastructure partner… spin up, manage, decomm VMs
• 18 PRD & 29 non-PRD VM servers running Windows Server 2012
• 40 VDIs running Windows 10
• Changed our DB to SQL Server from Oracle
• Our entire GIS technology stack is in Azure

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DB Server Node 1

Production DB Servers(2)

DB Server Node 2

SQL Server AAG

GIS Editor

FME Server (ETLs) ArcGIS Server Site 2 Maximo Spatial, Integrations ArcFM Mobile Web Adaptors FME Server (OMS) ArcFM Mobile Users CLEVEST (Trouble Response)

GIS in Azure

To eTerra ArcFM Web Users

GIS Power User

Maximo Anywhere ArcFM Web Load Balanced ArcGIS Server Site 1 Cluster Azure Load Balancer License Server Azure VDI To Integration End Points Azure Storage AGS, ArcFM Web FME, Desktop Drive

GIS in Azure – Azure Express Route

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/services/expressroute/

GIS in Azure – Operations & our Experience

• GIS solution hosted in Azure has been transparent
• Latency
• Azure has proven scalable, reliable – one significant issue in 2 years
• Storage has been a challenge but is improving
• VDIs support staffing fluctuations & vendor engagements
• Cost optimization – available but be prepared
• Shutdown VMs

https://qwazurevmtagging.cloudenmax.com/Default

• Burstable VMs/VDIs
• Reserved Instance 1 or 3 year (40% to 60% reduction)
• High visibility of costs…available, show back – charge back

GIS in Azure – Cost Management Tools

• https://portal.azure.com

The end…Thank you!

Appendix A

• What is a public cloud?
• Public clouds are the most common way of deploying cloud
• computing. The cloud resources (like servers and storage) are
• wned and operated by a third-party cloud service

provider and delivered over the Internet. Microsoft Azure is an example of a public cloud. With a public cloud, all hardware, software, and other supporting infrastructure is

• wned and managed by the cloud provider. In a public cloud,

you share the same hardware, storage, and network devices with other organizations or cloud “tenants.”

Appendix B

Appendix C

• How reservation discount is applied
• A reservation discount is "use-it-or-lose-it". So, if you don't

have matching resources for any hour, then you lose a reservation quantity for that hour. You can't carry forward unused reserved hours.

• When you shut down a resource, the reservation discount

automatically applies to another matching resource in the specified scope. If no matching resources are found in the specified scope, then the reserved hours are lost.