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Stamps are scalable. This means that as a tenant's capacity requirements increase, addi-
tional stamps can be allocated to meet that demand. For example, if a tenant needs 10,000
additional VMs in the Melbourne datacenter, additional stamps can be allocated to the ten-
ant.
Service Provider Foundation allows organizations to use industry standard web service
interfaces to connect their own web based management interfaces to a System Center cloud
through the REST (Representational State Transfer) web service and the Odata (Open Data
Protocol) API. Service Provider Foundation provides a programmatic web-based management
interface to a large number of VMM scenarios. Rather than being restricted to using one of
Microsoft's self-service portal implementations, a tenant can use their own Self-Service Portal
to interface with the System Center backend resources.
Service Provider Foundation has the following elements:
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Web Services
Theseprovide tenants with portal applications and administration
tools and include the following:
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Admin Web Service
Thisweb service generates User Roles, Servers, management
stamps and other objects required for administrative tasks
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VMM Web Service
Thisweb service interacts with VMM to create and manage
virtual machines, virtual networks, and tenants
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Usage Web Service
Thisweb service collects usage data from tenant virtual ma-
chines and other parts of the fabric such as storage and networking
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SERVICE PROVIDER FOUNDATION
You can learn more about Service Provider Foundation at
http://technet.microsoft.com/
The Service Provider Foundation installation files are located on the System Center 2012 R2
Orchestrator installation media. Service Provider Foundation has the following prerequisites
as shown in Figure 4-30:
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Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2
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PowerShell 4.0
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IIS Version 7.5 or later
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IIS Management Scripts and Tools role service
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IIS Security Basic Authentication
