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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

You're reading from Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

Product type Book

Published in Jan 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882470

Pages 380 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Amit Malik

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Know Windows Azure Pack and Its Architecture

2. Getting the Cloud Fabric Ready

3. Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack

4. Building VM Clouds and IaaS Offerings

5. Assigning Cloud Services – Plans, Add-Ons, Tenant Accounts, and Subscriptions

6. Experiencing the Cloud Services – the Tenant's Point of View

7. Delivering PaaS – WebSites Cloud and Service Bus

8. Delivering Database as a Service

9. Automation and Authentication – Service Management Automation and ADFS

10. Extending WAP Capabilities with Partners' Solutions

Index

Hyper-V deployment best practices

Hypervisor is the core foundation of WAP-based cloud infrastructure as every virtual machine including management workload VMs such as WAP admin/tenant portal VM, SCVMM, SPF will be running inside a VM on Hyper-V host only. Let's have a look at a few of the deployment best practices of Hyper-V Server.

It is recommended to maintain symmetry in terms of configuration, best practices applied across all Hyper-V hosts. SCVMM and AD group policies can be used to configure and manage Hyper-V configurations and policies across all the hosts.

Centralized management is the key element in every cloud solution.

Hyper-V installation best practices

Though Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V installation is quite straightforward. It's recommended to follow best practices of Hyper-V installation for a smooth and stable virtualized infrastructure.

Best practices for hypervisor installation are as follows:

Supported hardware and latest hardware firmware: It is recommended to use supported...

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Authors (1)

Amit Malik

Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik99)or email (contact2amitmalik@gmail.com)

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