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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

Registering Service Provider Foundation with WAP


Now that we have our portal ready for Admin and Tenant usage, it's time to integrate or make WAP APIs communicate with Fabric prepared in the previous chapter. In this section, we will register Service Provider Foundation with Windows Azure pack Service Management APIs.

See Chapter 1, Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture, System Centre integration section, to learn more about integration between WAP APIs and SPF.

Before registering, verify if SPF is deployed and configured properly to ensure successful registration:

  • There is network reachability on required ports between the WAP server and SPF

  • SPF application pools identity are running as a domain user

  • The SPF App Pool identity user has admin permissions on SCVMM and SPF DB

  • The local user is created on SPF server for WAP integration. Ensure that this local user is added to the SPF Local Groups Server (SPF_Admin, SPF_Provider, SPF_Usage, and SPF_VMM)

Steps to register SPF Endpoint in WAP are...