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Usage and Billing Update 7 Now Available!

Announcing the release of Usage and Billing Update 7 for Windows Azure Pack

Usage and Billing Update 7 release enables key new scenarios and features such as configuring user level credits to support pre-paid plans, view usage by grouping subscriptions at the user level, support for custom formula for computing usage of metered resources, generating invoice PDF documents, and the *hot new* capability to implement custom usage collectors using C# extensions.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015/Author: Aravind Sundaresan/Number of views (6300)/Comments (2)/ Article rating: 5.0

Usage & Billing Update 7: Usage Collector Extends to C# and PowerShell

Injecting non-WAP Usage details into billing pipeline using our C# based extensibility module

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.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (8865)/Comments (9)/ Article rating: 4.4

How to enable additional users to see WAP Subscription Resources ?

Enable co-admins to WAP Subscriptions

While it is obvious for most of us who dealt with Azure Pack or Azure in the past, for some it may be puzzling how to give access to resources created by one user to another user. In Azure Pack and in traditional Azure the way to accomplish this is by adding someone as co-admins to the existing user subscription. This help center article in support.cloudassert.com shows where and how to accomplish it from Windows Azure Pack admin portal.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (0)/Comments (0)/ Article rating: No rating
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How to invoke System Center Orchestrator Runbooks from VConnect?

VConnect Operations Templates, Custom Operation and Orchestrator Runbooks

Cloud Assert VConnect integrates VMWare vCenter clusters and datacenters with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack.

VConnect provides many ways to extend functionality and customize. Combining those with external tools like Microsoft’s System Center Orchestrator brings lot of flexibility for the Administrators, System Integrators and Power Users. In the following sections, we will go through the steps to invoke an Orchestrator Runbook from VConnect Operations Templates.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (17858)/Comments (7)/ Article rating: 5.0

How to troubleshoot Windows Azure Pack and System Center Usage Pipeline?

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.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (16689)/Comments (8)/ Article rating: 4.8
Announcing Usage and Billing

Announcing Usage and Billing

Usage and Billing Solution for Windows Azure Pack from CLOUD ASSERT

Usage and Billing solution for Windows Azure Pack is a platform for enterprises and service providers to address the need to provide a simple, straight forward Windows Azure Pack resource utilization across various services over time. Usage and Billing solution enables Windows Azure Pack administrators to configure pricing for more than 100+ resources, maintain multiple Pricing Profiles, integrate with billing systems and generate invoices automatically based on real usage from the end users.
Thursday, February 26, 2015/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (10841)/Comments (10)/ Article rating: 5.0

Whats new in VConnect v1.0 Update 3 ?

Features and updates in VConnect update 3

VConnect v1.0 Update 3 adds following features and improvements

 

- VConnect IP Address Pool Management

- Virtual Machine Backups for both VMWare and System Center

- Polished User Experience for setting up VConnect

- Auto discover datacenters and clusters on vCenter

- Validate and warn administrators on potentially incorrect configurations

- Step by step guided Wizard for creating VConnect Templates

 

Tuesday, November 18, 2014/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (5993)/Comments (5)/ Article rating: 5.0
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Create custom VConnect Template to Domain Join a VM

Steps to create a VConnect template that provisions a VM and joins a admin defined domain

VConnect VM Templates support customizing the VM startup configuration. Administrator user can determine if the VM should join a specified domain and can also provide the values needed to join a domain.

Monday, October 6, 2014/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (8750)/Comments (13)/ Article rating: 5.0
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CLOUD ASSERT VConnect Integrates Veeam & VMware with Windows Azure Pack

CLOUD ASSERT is Veeam Silver Partner and Authorized Reseller for Veeam Backup & Replication solutions

CLOUD ASSERT is now a Veeam Silver Partner and a Reseller. Veeam is a leader in providing enterprise backup and replication solutions.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (7038)/Comments (2)/ Article rating: 5.0
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VConnect with VCenter and VM Templates

Setting VConnect with VCenter and VM Templates for Easy Deployment

VConnect latest update supports VMWare VCenter and VM Templates. This makes it much easier for administrators to provide pre-configured virtual machine templates and for tenants to quickly deploy a solution.
Friday, April 18, 2014/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (9901)/Comments (5)/ Article rating: No rating
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