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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 3. Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack

In the previous chapter, we covered planning and configuration of Cloud Fabric Infrastructure, which is used to host the Cloud Fabric management and tenant workloads. Moving ahead, in this chapter we shall cover the installation and configuration of Windows Azure Pack websites, APIs, and authentication sites. We shall also cover post deployment steps such as customizing portal names and certificates as per enterprise and service providers' needs.

We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:

  • Windows Azure Pack deployment model review

  • Installing and configuring Windows Azure Pack

  • Installing Windows Azure Pack in a distributed model

  • Required firewall ports for WAP components

  • Customizing WAP portals' accessibility and certificates summary

  • Registering the Service Provider Foundation with WAP