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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

Authoring WebSite cloud plans


Windows Azure Pack plans for websites allows administrators to offer websites cloud services to tenants with granular control on services and resources, such as CPU or memory. Multiple plans can be created from a single cloud farm with different limits and capabilities. See Chapter 5, Assigning Cloud Services – Plans, Add-Ons, Tenant Accounts, and Subscriptions to know more about Windows Azure Pack plans.

Websites cloud plans overview and service models

WAP plans for websites are configured to provide three service models:

  • Intro

  • Basic

  • Reserved

For each plan, 17 quota settings can be configured, which include QOS such as subscription CPU time, maximum memory working set, and more.

  • The Intro mode: This is also known as the free mode. It provides a shared platform for hosting a tenant's websites. This is an entry level offering and should be used for test and development purposes. A tenant website in the Intro mode can be upgraded to basic and reserved as per requirement...