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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

Chapter 1. Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture

In this chapter, we will learn about Microsoft Cloud OS vision and the role of Windows Azure Pack within it. This chapter will help in understanding Windows Azure Pack cloud solution overview, capabilities, and service offerings with building blocks. Later, we will cover the architecture of Windows Azure Pack components and their deployment models in test and production environments.

We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:

  • Microsoft Cloud OS vision

  • What is Windows Azure Pack?

  • Windows Azure Pack capabilities and offerings

  • Windows Azure Pack architectural components and functionalities

  • Windows Azure Pack cloud solution building blocks

  • Windows Azure Pack deployment models

  • Integrating Windows Azure Pack and System Center Suite for IaaS services