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Website clouds is a service provided by Windows Azure Pack to deliver web hosting to your tenants. This service is similar to web hosting provided by Microsoft Azure. Websites can use ASP.NET or PHP technologies and the website databases can be stored on SQL Server or MySQL. Thanks to Windows Azure Pack, several service levels can be delivered. Websites are ...

The Windows Azure Pack provides a feature called notifications that enables to send E-mail. Notifications can be useful for tenants for example to receive an E-mail to obtain their forgotten password. It can also be used to increase the level of security by sending an e-mail to tenants which sign up to validate their identity. this avoids the bot registration ...

As we have seen in a previous post, Windows Azure Pack can be connected to your virtualization infrastructure relying on System Center Virtual Machine Manager. This is Virtual Machine Clouds (VM Clouds) service that enables to connect to your virtualization infrastructure to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to your tenants. In addition to manage virtual machines, VM Clouds enables ...

In the previous Windows Azure Pack post, I have configured the Virtual Machine Clouds to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to my tenants. Now that the service is set correctly, I have to create a hosting plan in order to my tenants subscribe to the services provided by my private cloud across Windows Azure Pack. A hosting plan is an object that ...

In this topic I have deployed Windows Azure Pack without any services for customers (tenants). Today I want to offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to my tenants from Windows Azure Pack by configuring Virtual Machine Clouds (VM clouds). That means that tenants will be able to create a VM from Windows Azure Pack regarding their subscriptions. The VM Clouds ...

The Windows Azure Pack is a collection of web services (Microsoft Azure technology) to provide Self-Portal to your customers (or tenants). The Windows Azure Pack integrates with your System Center and Windows Server infrastructure to make your datacenter a private cloud. It is the same web interface that Microsoft Azure. Self-Portal included in the Windows Azure Pack (WAP for friends) ...

In Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) a private cloud is an entity where you specify an amount of computing resource (CPU, RAM, storage etc.) that you provide to users called tenant in VMM. When a cloud is created and available, some rights can be set on tenants such as create Virtual Machines (VM). So these last can use the private cloud ...

Data Protection Manager is able to use Windows Azure as storage support. The feature is called Backup Vault in Windows Azure. This last can be used also with Windows Server Backup feature. To be able to use Windows Azure with Data Protection Manager, you need a computer certificate on the DPM server (self-signed or signed by a certificate authority, and ...