Windows Azure Pack-based cloud solution provides the following two options to tenants for provisioning virtual machine workloads:
Standalone virtual machine
Virtual machine role (VM Role)
Standalone virtual machine in Windows Azure Pack tenant admin portal is a direct mapping between standalone the VM offerings catalogue and the VM template created and configured in SCVMM.
For a standalone virtual machine, all the configurations are performed at the SCVMM level. The Windows Azure Pack portal is used to create virtual machine using predefined configurations in the SCVMM VM template. This does not give any flexibility to the tenant user to customize VM as per custom needs.
Cloud administrator needs to precreate multiple SCVMM VM templates for different sizes and options for providing flexibility to tenants in terms of choice. Any changes in the existing standalone VM offering has to be performed at the SCVMM...