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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By : Amit Malik
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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

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By: Amit Malik
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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 (12 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture
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1. Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture
Microsoft Cloud OS vision
What is Windows Azure Pack?
Windows Azure Pack capabilities and offerings
Windows Azure Pack components and functionalities
Windows Azure Pack cloud solution building blocks
Windows Azure Pack deployment models
Integrating Windows Azure Pack and System Center Suite for IaaS services
Summary
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2. Getting the Cloud Fabric Ready
2. Getting the Cloud Fabric Ready
Cloud fabric infrastructure planning
Hyper-V deployment best practices
Setting up virtual machines for cloud management fabric
Planning and deploying SQL Server for cloud management DB
Planning and deploying SCVMM 2012 R2
Planning and configuring hypervisor compute layer with SCVMM
Planning and configuring cloud network fabric with SCVMM
Planning and configuring cloud storage fabric with SCVMM
Planning and Deploying Service Provider Foundation
Summary
3
3. Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack
3. Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack
Windows Azure Pack deployment models review
Installing and configuring Windows Azure Pack
Installing Windows Azure Pack in a Distributed architecture
Required firewall ports for WAP components
Customizing WAP portal's accessibility and certificates
Registering Service Provider Foundation with WAP
Summary
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4. Building VM Clouds and IaaS Offerings
4. Building VM Clouds and IaaS Offerings
VM Clouds overview
Registering SCVMM with Windows Azure Pack
Preparing OS images for a cloud catalogue (Windows and Linux VMs)
IaaS virtual machine offerings – standalone VM versus VM Role
Building standalone VM IaaS offerings
The VM Role architecture
Building VM Role IaaS offerings using gallery resources
Using GRIT (Gallery Resource Import) tool
Developing VM Role gallery resource using VM Role Authoring tool
Accessing tenant virtual machines – Windows Azure Pack Console Connect
Summary
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5. Assigning Cloud Services – Plans, Add-Ons, Tenant Accounts, and Subscriptions
5. Assigning Cloud Services – Plans, Add-Ons, Tenant Accounts, and Subscriptions
Windows Azure Pack plans and add-ons – overview and planning
Creating and managing Windows Azure Pack plans and add-ons
Creating and managing tenants' user accounts
Tenant subscriptions – an overview and management
Summary
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6. Experiencing the Cloud Services – the Tenant's Point of View
6. Experiencing the Cloud Services – the Tenant's Point of View
Tenant registrations and account management
Creating and managing virtual networks
Standalone VM – provisioning and management
Virtual machine Role – provisioning and management
Summary
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7. Delivering PaaS – WebSites Cloud and Service Bus
7. Delivering PaaS – WebSites Cloud and Service Bus
Overview and capabilities of the WebSites cloud
WAP WebSites – architecture
Planning the WebSites cloud platform
Preparing the installation of Windows Azure Pack WebSites cloud
Installing and configuring the WebSite cloud
Customizing the WebSite cloud source control and the web gallery feed settings
WebSites cloud – management operations
Authoring WebSite cloud plans
WebSites cloud – a tenant's experience
Windows Azure Pack Service Bus
Summary
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8. Delivering Database as a Service
8. Delivering Database as a Service
Windows Azure Pack DBaaS offerings overview and capabilities
Planning the DBaaS platform fabric
Implementing SQL DBaaS
Implementing the MySQL resource provider fabric
SQL and MySQL DBaaS management operations – service providers
Enabling DB QoS – the SQL resource governor
Authoring DBaaS plans
DBaaS – tenant experience
Dedicating DBaaS offerings
Summary
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9. Automation and Authentication – Service Management Automation and ADFS
9. Automation and Authentication – Service Management Automation and ADFS
SMA – overview and architecture
Planning the SMA infrastructure
Installing and configuring SMA
Integrating SMA with Windows Azure Pack
Dealing with SMA assets
Dealing with SMA runbooks
Enabling ADFS authentication for WAP portals
Summary
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10. Extending WAP Capabilities with Partners' Solutions
10. Extending WAP Capabilities with Partners' Solutions
Microsoft Azure Stack
Windows Azure Pack updates
Windows Azure Pack Partner Ecosystem
Offer VMware with WAP – vConnect by Cloud Assert
Konube Integrator – connect with public clouds
Apprenda – Enterprise PaaS solutions
BlueStripe's performance center for WAP
Usage and billing by Cloud Assert
Cloud Cruiser for WAP
Request Management by GridPro
Odin – WAP APS packages
Cisco ACI – application centric infrastructure
5nine cloud security
Team access control for WAP
Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure for WAP clouds
A NetApp storage for Microsoft Clouds
Summary
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Index
Index

Integrating Windows Azure Pack and System Center Suite for IaaS services

Windows Azure pack leverage System Center 2012 R2 products along with Hyper-V in order to provide infrastructure as a service offering. System Center Suite is a set of multiple tightly integrated products which helps in having unified management and provisioning for your entire data center or cloud infrastructure. System Center Suite of products supports both Microsoft and non-Microsoft infrastructure integration.

System Center components are responsible for delivering IaaS services in Windows Azure Pack cloud. System Center products, which can be integrated with Windows Azure Pack are as follows:

  • System Center Service Provider Foundation: SPF adds multi-tenancy to System Center products. Available as a part of System Center Orchestrator media, it provides an extensible OData API over a REST web service enabling programmatic multi-tenant interface to System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Windows Azure Pack uses SPF to integrate with SCVMM for IaaS workload provisioning and life cycle management.
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager: SCVMM is the management solution for virtualization infrastructure provisions and managing compute (Virtualization Hosts), network, and storage resources to deploy virtual machines and services. VMM also enables software defined networking capabilities using Hyper-V Network Virtualization. Windows Azure Pack uses SCVMM to provision and manage clouds, virtual machines, virtual networks and other IaaS services.
  • System Center Service Management Automation (optional—for custom automation capabilities): SMA is an automation solution for Windows Azure Pack cloud infrastructures. It enables provisioning, monitoring and life cycle management of resources in a Windows Azure Pack cloud solution. It is available as a part of System Center Orchestrator.
  • System Center Operations Manager (optional—for monitoring and usage metering): SCOM is a monitoring and usage metering solution. It can be used in a Windows Azure Pack cloud for real-time monitoring of infra resources (using SCOM Console) and usage metering (using partner solutions such as CloudAssert, Cloudcruiser, and so on).

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Other System Center products can also be integrated with Windows Azure Pack using partner provider solutions (for example, GridPro enables System Center Service Manager integration with Windows Azure Pack for request management solution). While some components may not be able to integrate with Windows Azure Pack directly for having self-service, these can be utilized in cloud infrastructure to add capabilities as per product specific functionalities.

Other System Center product capabilities in a cloud management solution include:

  • System Center Configuration Manager: In a Windows Azure Pack based cloud, SCCM deployment would help in compliance management, asset intelligence and inventory, patching solution and device management. SCCM has to be managed using SCCM management console and doesn't have any Windows Azure Pack portal integration functionalities at this point of time.
  • System Center Data Protection Manager: DPM is an enterprise class backup solution. It can be leveraged for backup and recovery of cloud management and workload resources. DPM provides features such as VM and application centric backup with granular recovery capabilities. DPM can also archive backup data to Microsoft Azure which enables hybrid scenarios.
  • System center Service Manager: It provides an IT service management solution for cloud infrastructure. SCSM is built on frameworks by Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). It provides a built in process for handling incident and change management, change control and life cycle management. GridPro provides a way to integrate SCSM with Windows Azure Pack for enabling effective request management solutions.
  • System Center Endpoint Protection: Endpoint protection is an antimalware and security solution for the Microsoft platform. It can be used with SCCM for enterprise class endpoint management solutions.
  • System Center App Controller: App controller provides self-service experience for VMM infrastructure along with support of provisioning workload in Microsoft Azure.
  • System Center Orchestrator (SCORCH): SMA and SPF (discussed above) are part of the SCORCH product and are tightly integrated with Windows Azure Pack for delivering IaaS services. Apart from SMA and SPF, Orchestrator provides workflow management solutions for data centers. Orchestrator can automate data center operations of deployment and management of resources.
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