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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

Cloud fabric infrastructure planning


Planning a cloud fabric infrastructure involves practice and involvement of business and technical decision makers. Cloud fabric has to be planned in such a manner that ensures that services are available for the business in a reliable and efficient manner. Current infrastructure assessment, forecasting and future resource planning, cloud service catalogues, along with strategic vision and financials are the key facts to consider while planning for cloud infrastructure. Let's have a look at the foundation and basic principles for planning a WAP-based cloud fabric infrastructure for delivering IaaS services.

Choosing the hardware

While choosing hardware for your cloud infrastructure, there is a long list of precautions to be taken care of. The following are some of these precautions:

  • Follow the Microsoft certified hardware and software supportability and compatibility list. It is not a mandatory requirement as a WAP-based solution can be installed on almost...