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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By : Amit Malik
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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

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By: Amit Malik
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Overview of this book

Windows Azure Pack is an on-premises cloud solution by Microsoft, which can be leveraged by Organizations and Services providers for building an enterprise class cloud solution. WAP provides consistent experience to Microsoft Azure, along with capabilities such as multi-tenancy, high density, self-service, automated. WAP can be leveraged to provide both IaaS & PaaS Offerings to internal and external customers. In this book, we will learn about planning and deployment of Cloud Fabric for Windows Azure Pack, Azure Pack components, VM Clouds and IaaS offerings, PaaS Offering including WebSites & Service Bus, DBaaS offerings, Automation with SMA, and extending capabilities with third party products integration and tenant experience for all services.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture
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1. Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture
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Microsoft Cloud OS vision
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What is Windows Azure Pack?
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Windows Azure Pack capabilities and offerings
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Windows Azure Pack components and functionalities
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Windows Azure Pack cloud solution building blocks
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Windows Azure Pack deployment models
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Integrating Windows Azure Pack and System Center Suite for IaaS services
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Summary
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2. Getting the Cloud Fabric Ready
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2. Getting the Cloud Fabric Ready
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Cloud fabric infrastructure planning
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Hyper-V deployment best practices
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Setting up virtual machines for cloud management fabric
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Planning and deploying SQL Server for cloud management DB
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Planning and deploying SCVMM 2012 R2
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Planning and configuring hypervisor compute layer with SCVMM
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Planning and configuring cloud network fabric with SCVMM
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Planning and configuring cloud storage fabric with SCVMM
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Planning and Deploying Service Provider Foundation
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Summary
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3. Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack
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3. Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack
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Windows Azure Pack deployment models review
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Installing and configuring Windows Azure Pack
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Installing Windows Azure Pack in a Distributed architecture
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Required firewall ports for WAP components
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Customizing WAP portal's accessibility and certificates
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Registering Service Provider Foundation with WAP
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Summary
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4. Building VM Clouds and IaaS Offerings
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4. Building VM Clouds and IaaS Offerings
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VM Clouds overview
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Registering SCVMM with Windows Azure Pack
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Preparing OS images for a cloud catalogue (Windows and Linux VMs)
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IaaS virtual machine offerings – standalone VM versus VM Role
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Building standalone VM IaaS offerings
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The VM Role architecture
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Building VM Role IaaS offerings using gallery resources
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Using GRIT (Gallery Resource Import) tool
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Developing VM Role gallery resource using VM Role Authoring tool
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Accessing tenant virtual machines – Windows Azure Pack Console Connect
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5. Assigning Cloud Services – Plans, Add-Ons, Tenant Accounts, and Subscriptions
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5. Assigning Cloud Services – Plans, Add-Ons, Tenant Accounts, and Subscriptions
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Windows Azure Pack plans and add-ons – overview and planning
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Creating and managing Windows Azure Pack plans and add-ons
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Creating and managing tenants' user accounts
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Tenant subscriptions – an overview and management
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6. Experiencing the Cloud Services – the Tenant's Point of View
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6. Experiencing the Cloud Services – the Tenant's Point of View
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Tenant registrations and account management
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Creating and managing virtual networks
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Standalone VM – provisioning and management
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Virtual machine Role – provisioning and management
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7. Delivering PaaS – WebSites Cloud and Service Bus
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7. Delivering PaaS – WebSites Cloud and Service Bus
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Overview and capabilities of the WebSites cloud
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WAP WebSites – architecture
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Planning the WebSites cloud platform
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Preparing the installation of Windows Azure Pack WebSites cloud
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Installing and configuring the WebSite cloud
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Customizing the WebSite cloud source control and the web gallery feed settings
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WebSites cloud – management operations
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Authoring WebSite cloud plans
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WebSites cloud – a tenant's experience
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Windows Azure Pack Service Bus
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8. Delivering Database as a Service
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8. Delivering Database as a Service
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Windows Azure Pack DBaaS offerings overview and capabilities
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Planning the DBaaS platform fabric
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Implementing SQL DBaaS
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Implementing the MySQL resource provider fabric
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SQL and MySQL DBaaS management operations – service providers
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Enabling DB QoS – the SQL resource governor
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Authoring DBaaS plans
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DBaaS – tenant experience
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Dedicating DBaaS offerings
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9. Automation and Authentication – Service Management Automation and ADFS
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9. Automation and Authentication – Service Management Automation and ADFS
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SMA – overview and architecture
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Planning the SMA infrastructure
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Installing and configuring SMA
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Integrating SMA with Windows Azure Pack
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Dealing with SMA assets
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Dealing with SMA runbooks
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Enabling ADFS authentication for WAP portals
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10. Extending WAP Capabilities with Partners' Solutions
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10. Extending WAP Capabilities with Partners' Solutions
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Microsoft Azure Stack
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Windows Azure Pack updates
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Windows Azure Pack Partner Ecosystem
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Offer VMware with WAP – vConnect by Cloud Assert
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Konube Integrator – connect with public clouds
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Apprenda – Enterprise PaaS solutions
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BlueStripe's performance center for WAP
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Usage and billing by Cloud Assert
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Cloud Cruiser for WAP
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Request Management by GridPro
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Odin – WAP APS packages
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Cisco ACI – application centric infrastructure
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5nine cloud security
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Team access control for WAP
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Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure for WAP clouds
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A NetApp storage for Microsoft Clouds
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Summary
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Chapter 3. Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack

In the previous chapter, we covered planning and configuration of Cloud Fabric Infrastructure, which is used to host the Cloud Fabric management and tenant workloads. Moving ahead, in this chapter we shall cover the installation and configuration of Windows Azure Pack websites, APIs, and authentication sites. We shall also cover post deployment steps such as customizing portal names and certificates as per enterprise and service providers' needs.

We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:

  • Windows Azure Pack deployment model review
  • Installing and configuring Windows Azure Pack
  • Installing Windows Azure Pack in a distributed model
  • Required firewall ports for WAP components
  • Customizing WAP portals' accessibility and certificates summary
  • Registering the Service Provider Foundation with WAP
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