Windows Azure Pack can be used to offer virtual machines hosted on the VMware's server virtualization platform by leveraging vConnect by Cloud Assert. At the time of writing this book, VMware held the highest market share of the server virtualization market. vConnect helps organizations and service providers to use their existing VMware infrastructure to offer IaaS services to internal users and tenants.
vConnect offers tenants to provision and run virtual machines on VMware via VM templates. Provisioning configurations are defined at the VM templates level; parameters are defined by tenants in the self-service portal.
Along with virtual machines, vConnect also offers back up as a service by integrating with Veeam backup solutions.
vConnect offers the following capabilities while offering VMware via WAP:
VMware vCenter integration with WAP
Customized VM's templates for IaaS offerings
VM snapshots support
Backup using Veeam
On-demand configuration...