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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By : Marcel van den Berg
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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By: Marcel van den Berg

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Summary and a Look into the Near Future
Index

Introduction to System Center App Controller


One of the essential characteristics of cloud computing is that it provides a self-service portal. A self-service portal enables persons without or with minor IT knowledge to deploy virtual machines and services running on it.

The on-premises self-service portal of Microsoft System Center is called App Controller. App Controller is a web-based tool that allows developers and non-IT staff to manage virtual machines on both private and public clouds.

App Controller is not a replacement for System Center Virtual Machine Manager or Azure Management Portal. It is limited to provisioning new virtual machines and the target audience is certainly not system administrators.

The target audience for App Controller is application developers, application owners, and other roles that require to roll out applications but cannot be given full control to Virtual Machine Manager.

In the R2 release, App Controller misses some features that are available when using SCVMM...