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Thought experiment
Microsoft Azure Pack for Windows Server at Tailspin Toys
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n this thought experiment, apply what you've learned about this objective. You can
find answers to these questions in the “Answers” section at the end of this chapter.
You are the private cloud administrator at Tailspin Toys. You are investigating the
benefits of deploying Microsoft Azure Pack for Windows Server. Stakeholders at
the organization want to know about the functionality of Microsoft Azure Pack and
have forwarded you the following questions:
1.
Which VM operating systems can be requested through the portal after Micro-
soft Azure Pack for Windows Server is deployed and operational?
2.
Which database servers can be used to host databases used to store the data for
web applications deployed in a Microsoft Azure Pack for Windows Server web
cloud?
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Service Provider Foundation allows you to build a multi-tenant self-service private
cloud.
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Service Provider Foundation clouds support multi-tenancy, usage monitoring, usage
billing, usage metering, and management stamps.
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A management stamp represents a unit of virtualized platform infrastructure that
includes a VMM deployment, one or more virtualization hosts, the VMs that are man-
aged by VMM, and the unique service accounts and user roles that are individual to
that stamp.
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Stamps allow service providers to spread tenants and services across System Center
elements in separate datacenters.
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As a tenant's capacity requirements increase, additional stamps can be allocated to
meet that demand.
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Microsoft Azure Pack provides an on-premises replica of Microsoft Azure services that
you can deploy in your datacenter, including Virtual Machine and website provisioning.
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When deploying Microsoft Azure Pack, you need to provide credentials for the VMM,
Usage, Admin and Provider Application Pool identities on the Service Provider Founda-
tion server.
