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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

Planning the WebSites cloud platform


In this topic, we will discuss about planning factors and best practices for the website's cloud platform in terms of capacity, resiliency, and more.

Planning for resiliency

Windows Azure Pack Websites cloud solution can be protected against failures by adding redundant servers at each role or layer. Adding additional server for redundancy is quite an easy and simple process.

Following are the resiliency recommendations for each role:

  • WebSites roles: This role can be protected against failure by deploying additional servers for redundancy:

    • Controller servers: A maximum of two controller servers can be provisioned in a WAP website's deployment. This provides high availability at the controller layer.

    • Management and publisher: For the management and publisher role, it is recommended to have a minimum of two servers hosting this to provide resiliency. Additional servers can also be added as per scalability requirements.

    • Front end: Two front end servers can be deployed...