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Azure Fabric Controller Insights

The Fabric Controller is the "brain" of the Azure service that analyzes processes and makes decisions about resource allocation and load balancing. It manages clusters of machines in the Microsoft datacenter that are grouped together and connected via switches. The Fabric Controller communicates with fabric agents running on each machine to monitor health and make recovery decisions. It selects where new applications and virtual machines will run, optimizing hardware utilization, and instantly replaces failed instances or machines to ensure continuity of service.

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Azure Fabric Controller Insights

The Fabric Controller is the "brain" of the Azure service that analyzes processes and makes decisions about resource allocation and load balancing. It manages clusters of machines in the Microsoft datacenter that are grouped together and connected via switches. The Fabric Controller communicates with fabric agents running on each machine to monitor health and make recovery decisions. It selects where new applications and virtual machines will run, optimizing hardware utilization, and instantly replaces failed instances or machines to ensure continuity of service.

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Fabric Controller is a significant part of Windows Azure architecture.

When
thinking of the
components or services provided by Windows Azure, we wonder how all this works and
what is happening in clouds. It seems very complex from our end. Let us look into
the
physical architecture of these services to have a better understanding of Fabric
Controller.
Inside the datacenter, there are many machines or servers aggregated by a switch.
We
can say that fabric controller is a brain of the azure service that analyses the
processes
and makes decisions. Fabrics are group of machines in Microsoft’s datacenter which
are
aggregated by a switch. The group of these machines is called cluster. Each cluster
is
managed and owned by a fabric controller. They are replicated along with these
machines.
It manages everything inside those machines, for e.g., load balancers, switches,
etc. Each
machine has a fabric agent running inside it and fabric controller can communicate
with
each fabric agent.
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When selecting a virtual machine offered by Windows Azure services, there are five
options
to choose from. The configuration is as follows:
Memory CPU Instance Storage
Extra Small 768 MB Single core 1.0 GHz 20 GB
Small 1.75 GB Single core 1.6 GHz 225 GB
Medium 3.5 GB Dual core 1.6 GHz 490 GB
Large 7 GB Four core 1.6 GHz 1,000 GB
Extra Large 14 GB Eight core 1.6 GHz 2,040 GB
When a user chooses one of the virtual machine, the operating system, patch updates
and
software updates are performed by fabric controller. It decides where the new
application
should run which is one of the most important functions of Fabric Controller. It
also selects
the physical server to optimize hardware utilization.
When a new application is published in Azure, an application configuration file
written in
XML is also attached. The fabric controller reads those files in Microsoft
datacenter and
makes the setting accordingly.
In addition to managing the allocation of resources to a specific application, it
also monitors
the health of compute and storage services. It also makes the failure recoveries
for a
system.
Imagine a situation where four instances of web role are running, and one of them
dies.
The fabric controller will initiate a new instance to replace the dead one
immediately.
Similarly, in case any virtual machine fails, a new one is assigned by the fabric
controller.
It also resets the load balancers after assigning the new machine, so that it
points to the
new machine instantaneously. Thus, all the intelligent tasks are performed by the
Fabric
Controller in Windows Azure architecture.

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