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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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Windows Azure Pack updates


Microsoft continuously improves the Windows Azure Pack solution by adding new features and resolving issues since its first release. There is a per quarter update planned for WAP technologies, and usually, it is in line with System Center products updates that majorly include SCVMM and SPF. At the time of writing this book, the latest available update was Update rollup 8.

After Update rollup 4, enhancements and new features were added as per the feedback and suggestions received from customers and partners. If you want to submit an idea or suggestion for Windows Azure Pack features, go to https://feedback.azure.com/forums/255259-azure-pack. Windows Azure Pack is expected to support a future version of Windows Server and System Center in future updates.

The following KB article includes fixed issues and new enhancements added in Azure Pack updates respectively: