Building an OLAP Farm in the Cloud with Azure Virtual Machines

This is the second part of a series of posts on the "OLAP Farm" - which is an Analysis Services architecture that makes use of remote partitions on the backend and linked dimensions and linked measure groups on the front end in order to support solutions where datasets and latency requirements simply can't be handled by a single processing server. It was discussed in more detail in the previous blog post - so if you're not familiar, stop now and check it out before continuing. Building an OLAP Farm in the Cloud with Azure Virtual Machines - Part 1 Building an OLAP Farm in the Cloud with Azure Virtual Machines - Part 1