Windows Azure pack--Microsoft Private Cloud Development Future

Cloud computing has been supported by a lot of users from the advent of cloud concepts to more and more instances. But in the face of a wide range of cloud solutions and tools, users who are just beginning to try cloud applications are more confused and disoriented. The biggest concern for users is the complexity of cloud deployments. In fact, finding the most appropriate cloud environment for a business--the best we can call it--is simple.

Windows Azure Pack is a free set of Windows Azure technology installed in the data Center for Microsoft users, based on Windows Server R2 and the system Center R2 platform. With Windows Azure Technology, Microsoft users can provide the same rich self-service multi-tenant cloud as the public Windows Azure experience. With a simple deployment, you can run many different types of workloads at a lower cost.

We can summarize the three advantages of Windows Azure Pack, including: simple architecture, strong deployment capability, low cost performance, and make Windows Azure pack the best tool platform in cloud environment application.

Simple architecture, tenant management

In the enterprise constructs the mixed cloud environment originally, the enterprise does not need to invent the acceleration business development "The fresh steamer", many existing IT equipment, the tool, the product, the technology and so on constructs can take. In other words, companies can increase enterprise applications on existing infrastructure.

An information company, a company that blends applications with the latest Windows Azure pack Private cloud architecture, consists of Windows Azure and Windows Server, System Center, and manages APIs Connected to the internal deployment of the enterprise.

Overall, the user's IaaS architecture is simple, with Windows Server Hyper-V at the bottom, and the management layer includes three parts, including virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, and an automated management tool. Can control all the internal and external virtual environment architecture, and when the user resources are insufficient, can also do virtual machine or virtual service expansion.

The cloud architecture also has a middle tier where users can manage and develop through the Server Manager API. The front end is divided into two management portals: one is the tenant portal site, the other is the manager portal site. When a user presents an application, all processes in the cloud are delegated through the manager, which determines what applications the tenant uses through the permissions setting.

In a virtual environment, IT staff does not need to consider what specifications are being developed, what applications are highly available, and where all resources are stored. In a virtual environment, the prerequisites are all configured to complete. Only through the tenant management interface, users can get the resources assigned by the administrator.

Rapid deployment, consistency experience

As a powerful trans-environmental asset, Microsoft Cloud OS helps businesses extend their identities to the cloud in a secure way through the Internet and securely extend applications and data to devices.

In addition, Microsoft Cloud OS has a more agile advantage, leveraging virtualization technology to provide a more scalable and adaptable infrastructure, delivering consistently available, always online services through shared resources, and providing support for the delivery model of cloud services through more automated management and self-service provisioning.

Most importantly, in a mixed cloud environment, the user has a consistent experience across the cloud OS. Not only does it have a consistent IaaS platform, it also supports scale-out applications. The Cloud OS delivers a management platform that can be applied to a variety of workloads across multiple data centers.

In the face of cloud virtualization management, it is not enough for an enterprise to manage only a single virtual machine, through remote control, after the enterprise set up the cloud, can put the underlying host, network equipment and storage device, unified as a whole structure, the underlying infrastructure moved to the cloud, and can be delegated to users.

Reduce costs and improve operational efficiency

With Microsoft's hybrid cloud architecture capabilities, users can reduce infrastructure complexity, reduce costs, and perform operational management in an efficient manner. Integration through the most basic server virtualization technology is just the most basic means. By automating technology, you can ensure that users have a predictable environment.

Microsoft user authorization Way completely compliance, according to different management flow and usage rate, user can carry on independent analysis. For example: through the license metering function. The supplier can plan and charge for all tenants, license the user usage and capacity planning, and can assist the supplier to maintain the compliant authorization framework, license the report contains all the detailed display. Vendors can manage public resources, users do not need to worry about the infrastructure, according to different requirements to do different billing standards, whether public cloud, private cloud, or mixed cloud model, each service has different pricing.

To build Low-cost, high-performance storage, the file and storage services capabilities of Windows server can be managed with industry-standard storage devices entirely by the server software. Its storage technology provides the availability, adaptability, and performance that only high-end hardware can achieve. These storage technologies can be managed uniformly in system center,vmm, including a flat-metal supply scale-out file server cluster, Physical disk discovery, and the creation of virtualized storage pools. The VMM component of System Center R2 plays an important role in promoting the large-scale management of virtualization. IT staff should consider setting different categories of administrative rights, because top managers have almost the same privileges as VMM, setting different administrative rights and scopes through role setting. VMM is the foundation platform of building virtualized environment, can control hardware completely, the efficiency of resource virtualization is high. When problems occur in the cloud environment, managers can see the dynamic inside the host storage, the first to do interpretation. VMM enables storage management by supporting a variety of storage methods from file to block storage. For customers who have already invested in block storage technology, such as SAN (storage Area Network), VMM can support high load virtualization by enabling virtual machines to connect to sans via virtual Fibre Channel switches.

To conserve the time it takes to upgrade from Windows Server 2012, Windows Server R2 provides virtual machine migration, enabling users to quickly migrate to Windows Server 2012 for virtual machines on Windows Server 2012 R2. The VMM component has a cross version migration capability that helps users transfer load from the Windows Server 2012 host via Hyper-V real-time migration.

In addition, there are many new additions to Windows Server R2. These new and enhanced features, including virtualization, management, storage, networking, virtual Desktop infrastructure, access and information protection, WEB and application platforms, can help users further optimize the cloud experience.

And now the hybrid cloud, like the internet 10 years ago, revolutionized the business operations of many companies, and as an important tool in emerging industries Windows Azure Pack relies on its powerful private cloud consolidation capabilities, especially in the context of cloud usability and usability, Win the user's deep approval.

The IT head of the information company said: At present, all of the company's applications are controlled under Windows Azure Pack, fully implement the enterprise management policies, and can quickly respond to a large number of temporary project provisioning, and provide convenient self-service portal and interface for information management. The Windows Azure Pack adds more revenue to the company, particularly with regard to system integration and compatibility features in virtual machine management, as well as centralized management mechanisms.