In Windows Azure Pack – Manage VM Networks topic, I have talked about network virtualization implemented with NVGRE and I have implemented it without NVGRE gateway. That means that Virtual Machines weren’t able to be contacted from the outside of its VM network boundary. In this topic, I’m going to implement a NVGRE gateway in order to these VM can ...
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Microsoft has just released Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure Pack. This update fix a lot of issues (mainly on VMM) and add new features as DPM which is now able to backup SQL Server 2012SP2/2014. Below, you can find links to download updates: Virtual Machine Manager: KB2992024 Service Provider Foundation: KB2992021 Operations Manager: KB2992020 Service ...
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The RDS Gateway is useful for VM Clouds in the Windows Azure Pack to connect to Virtual Machine that have no connection to the network. Thanks to RDS gateway, VMs can be managed from console mode and tenants can always have access to VMs even if a network issue occurs. N.B : The above schema comes from this TechNet article. The ...
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When the Windows Azure Pack is installed for production, the access to the cloud services should be accessible 99,9% of the time. To implement this service level, the Windows Azure Pack has to be deployed with high availability mechanisms as Load-Balancing, SQL AlwaysOn and so on. The below schema shows the Windows Azure Pack deployment in high availability that I ...
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SMA (Service Management Automation) is a feature that enables to automate tasks in your private cloud from the Windows Azure Pack. SMA is included in the Orchestrator ISO. Three components are needed to run SMA for Windows Azure Pack: SMA Web Services – This is a REST Endpoint used by the Windows Azure Pack to connect to the SMA service. ...
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In the previous topic, I have configured the Website clouds service in the Windows Azure Pack. However websites usually need a database to store configuration and user data. For example Tech-Coffee is powered by WordPress which needs a MySQL database. So in this topic we will see how to implement the MySQL Servers service on the Windows Azure Pack. MySQL ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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