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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 Deploying Service Provider Foundation


System Center Service Provider Foundation 2012 R2 is part of the System Center suite, available in System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator installation media. SPF add multi-tenancy capabilities to System Center products such as SCVMM, SMA and more. SPF exposes an extensible OData Web Service that interacts with Virtual Machine Manager.

Service providers and organization can design and develop their own cloud portals, and take advantage of SPF for utilizing IaaS capabilities of SCVMM. Windows Azure Pack uses SPF to integrate with SCVMM for provisioning and managing cloud IaaS resources such as virtual machines, virtual networks and so on.

SPF architecture and deployment options

SPF is a collection of four web services as follows:

  • SPF Admin Web Service: Admin Web Service is responsible for creating and managing tenants, roles, stamps (SCVMM) and more. It can be accessed on https://SPFSERVER:8090/SC2012R2/Admin/Microsoft.Management.Odata.svc. User running...