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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 the WebSite cloud


Microsoft Web Platform Installer is used to download and install websites cloud components. See Chapter 3, Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack to know more on the Web Platform Installer.

Before starting installation, verify that all the design decisions and planning is made and prerequisites are completed.

First, the controller server is installed, and later, it is used to install and configure other roles. The installation of the controller server also installs one management console for Windows Azure Pack websites, which can be used to install and configure other server roles in conjunction with the WAP service management portal.

Installing and configuring controller and management servers

The following steps outline the installation and configuration process for the controller and management servers:

  1. Log into the server designated for the WebSites controller.

  2. Run the Microsoft Web PI.

  3. Search for Windows Azure Pack WebSites.

  4. Select Windows...