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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

WebSites cloud – management operations


The Windows Azure Pack management portal offers a self-service experience not only for tenant users but also for cloud administrators. The WAP management portal can be used to perform monitoring and management operations on a websites cloud farm such as the following:

  • Monitoring the utilization and availability status of the cloud farm and the tenants' websites

  • Provisioning, monitoring, and starting or stopping websites roles

  • Customizing WebSites settings such as SSL and DNS records

  • Configuring and managing block lists, IP SSL, and platform credentials

The utilization dashboard

The DASHBOARD page of the WebSites cloud provides graphs for the CPU and memory utilization of a complete website cloud farm. Along with utilization, event logs for website cloud can also be viewed using the DASHBOARD page.

Roles – configuration and management

The ROLES page enables administrators to perform the following operations:

  • Provision and remove any websites server roles

  • Reboot...