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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

Installing Windows Azure Pack in a Distributed architecture


Installation of Windows Azure Pack in a Distributed architecture is similar to Express installation. In a Distributed architecture, instead of selecting Windows Azure Pack: Portal and API Express, individual components such as Admin site and Admin authentication sites are selected and installed on multiple servers.

Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is used to select individual components and installation of each of them on all the WAP servers. Let's have a look at the steps to deploy WAP in a Distributed architecture.

  1. Complete the hardware and software prerequisite on all WAP servers (see Chapter 1, Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture, for various deployment topologies of WAP in a Distributed architecture, last topic for software prerequisites).

  2. Verify required firewall ports allowed in Windows or network firewalls.

  3. Deploy any load balancers (physical or logical) for WAP virtual machines as per architecture.

  4. Install...