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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

Developing VM Role gallery resource using VM Role Authoring tool


VM Role Authoring tool is published as an open source project on CodePlex. It provides an easy-to use-GUI for developing custom gallery resources for Windows Azure Pack VM Role.

With VM Role Authoring tool, the components of VM Role such as Resource Definition package and Resource Extension package can be developed from scratch, and it can also be used to modify the available gallery items at Microsoft for environmental specific requirements.

VM Role Authoring tool can be used for VM Roles developing and modifications operations, including:

  • A Resource Definition package

  • View Definition packages and localized resource files

  • Resource Extension packages for Windows and Linux machines

  • The mapping of parameters and values of Resource Definition to Resource Extension

Getting the VM Role Authoring tool

This tool is available on the CodePlex site. The latest, stable version available at the point of writing this book was 1.1.

Any supported...