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Published inJan 2016
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781785882470
Edition1st Edition
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Amit Malik
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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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IaaS virtual machine offerings – standalone VM versus VM Role


Windows Azure Pack-based cloud solution provides the following two options to tenants for provisioning virtual machine workloads:

  • Standalone virtual machine

  • Virtual machine role (VM Role)

Standalone virtual machine

Standalone virtual machine in Windows Azure Pack tenant admin portal is a direct mapping between standalone the VM offerings catalogue and the VM template created and configured in SCVMM.

For a standalone virtual machine, all the configurations are performed at the SCVMM level. The Windows Azure Pack portal is used to create virtual machine using predefined configurations in the SCVMM VM template. This does not give any flexibility to the tenant user to customize VM as per custom needs.

Cloud administrator needs to precreate multiple SCVMM VM templates for different sizes and options for providing flexibility to tenants in terms of choice. Any changes in the existing standalone VM offering has to be performed at the SCVMM...

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Published in: Jan 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785882470

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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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