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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

Dealing with SMA runbooks


SMA runbooks consist of PowerShell workflows, which include PowerShell cmdlets to perform specified tasks in an automated manner.

The Runbooks can be managed from the RUNBOOKS tab under the automation workspace WAP portal. Service providers can write PowerShell workflows and runbooks anywhere, and then import them in the WAP SMA.

The RUNBOOKS tab in the automation workspace provides functionality to perform the following basic operations on runbooks:

  • Start the execution of any runbook

  • Import a runbook to WAP (PS1 file)

  • Export any existing runbook to the PS1 file on a local system

  • Delete any existing runbook from WAP

Note that there is no GUI (drag and drop item) available for authoring runbooks such as System Center Orchestrator (SCO); it must be written manually in PowerShell workflows.

Sample runbooks

Windows Azure Pack along with SMA by default provides a few samples of runbooks that can be used and leveraged as a reference to author new runbooks.

The following steps outline...