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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 Partner Ecosystem


WAP, with its custom extension capabilities enables partner and third party vendors to develop solutions to add value in a WAP deployment. These solutions can include technologies from improving existing deployment to adding new features.

There are multiple solutions available today in the market to extend WAP capabilities; a few are the in-development phase. Partner solutions can be segregated under the following categories:

  • Infrastructure: Infrastructure partners provide fabric components, such as server, storage, networks, and so on, to run the Windows Azure Pack management and the tenant's workload. Examples include infrastructure solutions for WAP from Nutanix and NetApp.

  • Resource providers: These add new services to WAP cloud offering catalogues. Examples include VMware VM's offering via WAP by Cloud Assert's vConnect solution.

  • Integration: These solutions are integrated with WAP deployment to provide insights, such as performance or service dashboards...