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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

Planning and configuring hypervisor compute layer with SCVMM


In this section we will learn to plan and configure hypervisor resources such as Hyper-V hosts and clusters, VMware and Citrix hypervisors. In a WAP-based cloud solution the hypervisor layer has to be in control of SCVMM for IaaS services provisioning and lifecycle management.

In this section we will cover various ways of adding and managing a hypervisor layer in SCVMM.

Planning and creating SCVMM host groups

In a large scale cloud deployment comprising hundreds of Hyper-V hosts and thousands of virtual machines or more, managing the hosts effectively in terms of resource provisioning and controlling becomes challenging. SCVMM host groups can be used to avoid such challenges, it provides flexibilities to group multiple hypervisor hosts and uses as a single entity for resource provisioning and management.

Host group planning would have a different foundation and strategy for organizations and service providers. A few common options...