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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 VM Role IaaS offerings using gallery resources


Microsoft and some third-party vendors have developed a wide range of standard gallery items for public usage. These gallery items can be downloaded and used by organizations or service providers for their cloud IaaS offerings. The beauty is that these can also be customized or modified to meet specific custom requirements.

The Microsoft Web Platform installer is used to download the Microsoft provided Windows Azure Pack gallery items.

Downloading gallery items using Microsoft Web PI

Windows Azure Pack gallery items aren't available in the standard WEB PI downloads list; custom feeds have to be added. Let's have a look at the steps to download these resources:

  1. Log into Windows Azure Pack or any other server with Internet connectivity.

  2. Launch Microsoft Web Platform Installer (https://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx).

  3. Click on the Options link at the bottom of Web PI.

  4. Add http://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/partners/servicemodels...