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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.
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The VM Role architecture


VM Role in Windows Azure Pack adds greater flexibilities and self-service capabilities in IaaS offerings. VM Role is not just about providing virtual machines for tenant's workload, it takes IaaS services to another level by offering automated applications deployment in VM in a self-service manner.

VM Role packages are developed in JSON and provide resources or values, which are used to provision virtual machines and applications. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight format used for data interchanging.

JSON files for a VM Role along with metadata such as logos, resources, and more make a VM Role package.

A VM Role is primarily made up of two components/packages as follows:

  • Resource Definition package

  • Resource Extension package

Before diving into these packages, let's understand VM Role's working mechanism. In a traditional scenario without any self-service portal, VM creation requires some set of input as variables, such as hardware configuration (the number...

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