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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

Hyper-V deployment best practices


Hypervisor is the core foundation of WAP-based cloud infrastructure as every virtual machine including management workload VMs such as WAP admin/tenant portal VM, SCVMM, SPF will be running inside a VM on Hyper-V host only. Let's have a look at a few of the deployment best practices of Hyper-V Server.

It is recommended to maintain symmetry in terms of configuration, best practices applied across all Hyper-V hosts. SCVMM and AD group policies can be used to configure and manage Hyper-V configurations and policies across all the hosts.

Centralized management is the key element in every cloud solution.

Hyper-V installation best practices

Though Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V installation is quite straightforward. It's recommended to follow best practices of Hyper-V installation for a smooth and stable virtualized infrastructure.

Best practices for hypervisor installation are as follows:

  • Supported hardware and latest hardware firmware: It is recommended to use supported...