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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

Creating and managing Windows Azure Pack plans and add-ons


Windows Azure Pack cloud administrators can create and manage plans or add-ons using the WAP management portal. Before creating a plan or an add-on, a cloud provider must plan and decide the number of plans and add-ons for their configuration.

Creating a WAP plan

Let's carry out the following steps to create a WAP plan:

  1. Log into the WAP management portal for administrators.

  2. Navigate to the plans workspace.

  3. Click on CREATE A NEW HOSTING PLAN.

  4. Provide a friendly name for the hosting plan; by default, this name will be visible to tenants while signing up.

  5. Select the services or the type of resource providers to be made available in the plan.

  6. Select any add-on to be linked to the plan. This can also be configured later.

  7. Click on the checkmark to create the plan.

  8. By default, any plan gets created in a private state. It has to be changed to Public manually to make it available for tenants.

  9. Click on the NAME plan to start configuring the plan for...