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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

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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Usage and billing by Cloud Assert


Cloud Assert provides a chargeback solution for Windows Azure Pack, which can be used to manage usage and billing for tenants and internal customers.

Cloud Assert writes following on their official website for usage and billing solutions:

Usage and billing solution enables Windows Azure Pack administrators to configure pricing for more than 100 plus resources, maintain multiple Pricing Profiles, integrate with billing systems, and generate invoices automatically based on real usage from end users.

It supports multiple scenarios including the following:

  • Plan Credits: This is similar to Azure. Users can have an overall credit of say X amount, and they are free to use any resource for this X amount. Excess usage is automatically billed based on utilization.

  • Bundled Offers: This is similar to popular service provider offerings. Users buy a bundle of resources in advance, such as X CPU, Y DB Size, and Z websites. Only usage that exceeds these including unit credits...

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