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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

Installing and configuring Windows Azure Pack


Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WEB PI) is used to install Windows Azure Pack components in both Express and Distributed Architectures. Microsoft Web Platform is a free tool available, which is used to download and install latest components of Microsoft Web platform-related components such as IIS, .NET, web development tools, web applications, Windows Azure Pack, and so on. Web PI automatically detects the operating system on which it's executed and displays only compatible solutions available for download and installation.

Before downloading and starting Web Platform installer, we need to ensure that Windows Azure Pack installation prerequisites are completed. Let's finish up the prerequisites before starting the installation.

WAP installation prerequisite

For the purpose of evaluation, we are installing Windows Azure Pack in the Express Deployment model. The following hardware and software prerequisites have to be met before starting the installation...