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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By : Amit Malik
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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By: Amit Malik

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.

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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack
Amit Malik
Jan, 2016 | 380 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack
Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture
Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture
Microsoft Cloud OS vision
What is Windows Azure Pack?
Windows Azure Pack capabilities and offerings
Windows Azure Pack components and functionalities
Windows Azure Pack cloud solution building blocks
Windows Azure Pack deployment models
Integrating Windows Azure Pack and System Center Suite for IaaS services
Summary
2
Getting the Cloud Fabric Ready
Getting the Cloud Fabric Ready
Cloud fabric infrastructure planning
Hyper-V deployment best practices
Setting up virtual machines for cloud management fabric
Planning and deploying SQL Server for cloud management DB
Planning and deploying SCVMM 2012 R2
Planning and configuring hypervisor compute layer with SCVMM
Planning and configuring cloud network fabric with SCVMM
Planning and configuring cloud storage fabric with SCVMM
Planning and Deploying Service Provider Foundation
Summary
3
Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack
Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack
Windows Azure Pack deployment models review
Installing and configuring Windows Azure Pack
Installing Windows Azure Pack in a Distributed architecture
Required firewall ports for WAP components
Customizing WAP portal's accessibility and certificates
Registering Service Provider Foundation with WAP
Summary
4
Building VM Clouds and IaaS Offerings
Building VM Clouds and IaaS Offerings
VM Clouds overview
Registering SCVMM with Windows Azure Pack
Preparing OS images for a cloud catalogue (Windows and Linux VMs)
IaaS virtual machine offerings – standalone VM versus VM Role
Building standalone VM IaaS offerings
The VM Role architecture
Building VM Role IaaS offerings using gallery resources
Using GRIT (Gallery Resource Import) tool
Developing VM Role gallery resource using VM Role Authoring tool
Accessing tenant virtual machines – Windows Azure Pack Console Connect
Summary
5
Assigning Cloud Services – Plans, Add-Ons, Tenant Accounts, and Subscriptions
Assigning Cloud Services – Plans, Add-Ons, Tenant Accounts, and Subscriptions
Windows Azure Pack plans and add-ons – overview and planning
Creating and managing Windows Azure Pack plans and add-ons
Creating and managing tenants' user accounts
Tenant subscriptions – an overview and management
Summary
6
Experiencing the Cloud Services – the Tenant's Point of View
Experiencing the Cloud Services – the Tenant's Point of View
Tenant registrations and account management
Creating and managing virtual networks
Standalone VM – provisioning and management
Virtual machine Role – provisioning and management
Summary
7
Delivering PaaS – WebSites Cloud and Service Bus
Delivering PaaS – WebSites Cloud and Service Bus
Overview and capabilities of the WebSites cloud
WAP WebSites – architecture
Planning the WebSites cloud platform
Preparing the installation of Windows Azure Pack WebSites cloud
Installing and configuring the WebSite cloud
Customizing the WebSite cloud source control and the web gallery feed settings
WebSites cloud – management operations
Authoring WebSite cloud plans
WebSites cloud – a tenant's experience
Windows Azure Pack Service Bus
Summary
8
Delivering Database as a Service
Delivering Database as a Service
Windows Azure Pack DBaaS offerings overview and capabilities
Planning the DBaaS platform fabric
Implementing SQL DBaaS
Implementing the MySQL resource provider fabric
SQL and MySQL DBaaS management operations – service providers
Enabling DB QoS – the SQL resource governor
Authoring DBaaS plans
DBaaS – tenant experience
Dedicating DBaaS offerings
Summary
9
Automation and Authentication – Service Management Automation and ADFS
Automation and Authentication – Service Management Automation and ADFS
SMA – overview and architecture
Planning the SMA infrastructure
Installing and configuring SMA
Integrating SMA with Windows Azure Pack
Dealing with SMA assets
Dealing with SMA runbooks
Enabling ADFS authentication for WAP portals
Summary
10
Extending WAP Capabilities with Partners' Solutions
Extending WAP Capabilities with Partners' Solutions
Microsoft Azure Stack
Windows Azure Pack updates
Windows Azure Pack Partner Ecosystem
Offer VMware with WAP – vConnect by Cloud Assert
Konube Integrator – connect with public clouds
Apprenda – Enterprise PaaS solutions
BlueStripe's performance center for WAP
Usage and billing by Cloud Assert
Cloud Cruiser for WAP
Request Management by GridPro
Odin – WAP APS packages
Cisco ACI – application centric infrastructure
5nine cloud security
Team access control for WAP
Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure for WAP clouds
A NetApp storage for Microsoft Clouds
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Microsoft Cloud OS vision and how Windows Azure Pack contributes towards that. We got to know about capabilities and service offerings Windows Azure Pack provides along with an overview and functionalities of its architectural pieces.

We understood the building blocks of Windows Azure Pack cloud solution offerings with required and optional components details.

We also covered the deployment models of Windows Azure Pack components and discussed several sample architectures for test and production ready cloud infrastructures. We discussed the role of System Center products in delivering IaaS services with Windows Azure Pack cloud.

In the next chapter we will setup the cloud fabric which will be utilized by Windows Azure Pack for cloud management and tenant workloads.

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