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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

Building standalone VM IaaS offerings


For every standalone VM offering in Windows Azure pack cloud, there has to be a direct mapping present with VM template in the SCVMM library. The VM template in the SCVMM library can be configured using a virtual disk prepared in the earlier topics. Let's start creating VM templates in SCVMM for Windows Azure Pack usage. Multiple templates can be created using the same VHD and defined hardware/OS profile combinations to provide flexible options for tenants for deploying VM workloads.

Requirements for using VM templates for Windows Azure Pack

The following consideration must be taken care while creating VM templates to be used for a standalone VM in Windows Azure Pack:

  • There must not be any cloud capability profile selected on the hardware profile page in the template creation wizard. The same case applies in case of any preconfigured hardware profile that is being used.

  • The VHD that is being used to create the template must have a remote desktop enabled...