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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

Standalone VM – provisioning and management


Standalone virtual machines allow the tenant's administrator to create and manage virtual Vanilla OS virtual machines as configured by the cloud provider in the plan. All the added VM templates in the plan by the cloud provider will be visible to tenants in the create standalone VM menu.

Creating a standalone virtual machine

To create a standalone virtual machine, we will have to follow these steps:

  1. Log into the tenant portal using the tenant's admin account.

  2. Click on the NEW button in the bottom pane and select STANDALONE VIRTUAL MACHINE.

  3. Click on QUICK CREATE or FROM GALLERY as applicable.

  4. Select the templates or disks available to tenants. Clicking on the object will display its descriptions configured by the cloud administrator.

  5. Provide the VM name, password, and product key if applicable.

  6. Select the network to which this VM needs to be attached. The newly created VNet will be visible in the drop-down list.

  7. Now the CREATE VIRTUAL MACHINE operation will...