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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

Planning and deploying SQL Server for cloud management DB


All components of Windows Azure Pack and system center uses SQL Server database to store its configuration, run time data, historical usage data etc. Failure of the database is directly proportional to the failure of respective components.

Choosing the database server version and deployment model

In a bare minimum deployment, this SQL Server for management databases shall be used by the following components:

  • Windows Azure Pack components

  • SCVMM

  • SPF

  • SMA

While choosing the database version a deployment model, supportability and compatibility has to be aligned with respect to each of the components mentioned previously.

Windows Azure Pack supports the following MS SQL Server versions for managing databases:

  • MS SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3

  • MS SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2

  • MS SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1

  • MS SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2

  • MS SQL Server 2014

System Center 2012 R2 has different SQL Server version support differentiating upon components...