Does your business have Windows Azure Pack based private or hybrid Cloud deployed, but was limited by the set of Usage details captured by it for billing? Here is hot release with new feature additions to our 'Usage & Billing' solution, which enables simple C# code and Powershell script extensions to capture and inject custom Usage details into our Cloud Assert Billing pipeline, provide visibility in Windows Azure Pack Tenant Portal and leverage all the goodness of Cloud Assert Usage and Billing Solution.
Cloud Assert VConnect integrates VMWare vCenter clusters and datacenters with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack.
Cloud Assert Usage and Billing pulls and aggregates data from Windows Azure Pack and System Center Usage data pipeline frequently in order to provide up-to-date metered resource / consumption based usage to end users.
This underlying usage pipeline has many moving parts and more often users are left with no usage data shown for System Center Virtual Machines. This post provides steps and tricks to troubleshoot and fix various components in the Windows Azure Pack, System Center and Operations Manager.
VConnect is a custom extension for Windows Azure Pack to allow management and provisioning of VMs hosted on VMWare. VConnect helps integrate VMWare hosts and Virtual Machines with Windows Azure Pack. Provides admin and tenant management functionalities for VMWare resources through Windows Azure Pack (WAP) service management portal.
What are the motivations for choosing one type of cloud vs the other ? We will explore and provide pointers to help you get started on the journey of choosing and implementing the right cloud architecture for your business. This article series is more of an exploration and discussion around this area. For your specific scenarios and needs, to find a recommended architecture, we need to analyze and research the right model. We love to hear your thoughts and specific scenarios that we may have not covered, please use the comments section to talk about it, see you there.
Details about Azure Connect beta updates to the install binaries.
Compliance, Security Concerns, Consolidate existing on-premise infrastructure, Self-service & agility, Transparency, visibility and collaboration