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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

Summary


At the end of this chapter, we have completed building essential services for our WAP cloud solution. You learned about building a SMA solution for automating the WAP cloud resource provisioning, monitoring, and management. You learned about planning, installing, and configuring SMA. You learned about SMA assets and runbooks including authoring and managing runbooks.

We also covered using authentication capabilities of ADFS with Windows Azure Pack for admin and tenant portal authentication.

In the next chapter, we will look at the extensible architecture of the Windows Azure Pack cloud by learning about partner and third-party developed products for extending WAP capabilities and features.