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Deploy with Azure Resource Manager Templates from Windows Azure Pack

Deploy with Azure Resource Manager Templates from Windows Azure Pack

Provision Virtual Machines from Windows Azure Pack to Microsoft Azure Public cloud with ARM Templates

Create and manage new Virtual Machines from Windows Azure Pack in public Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (7170)/Comments (3)/ Article rating: 5.0
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Metered Resources – Setting up Unit Multiplier and Monthly Unit Price

Cloud Assert Usage & Billing for Windows Azure Pack

Here is a step-by-step guide to configure pricing profiles using the Metered Resource Pricing setup wizard.

Friday, January 8, 2016/Author: Aravind Sundaresan/Number of views (5765)/Comments (4)/ Article rating: 4.5

Setting up Pricing Profiles for System Center Virtual Machines

Cloud Assert Usage & Billing for Windows Azure Pack

This blog post explains how Virtual Machine sizing-based pricing can be achieved using our Pricing Profile configuration, even though System Center sends Usage data of individual resources such CPU, RAM, Disk ...etc.
Friday, December 18, 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (6074)/Comments (13)/ Article rating: 4.5
How to add Microsoft Azure Subscription to Windows Azure Pack ?

How to add Microsoft Azure Subscription to Windows Azure Pack ?

Instructions to onboard Azure subscriptions to VConnect with Azure Connect

Enable provisioning and management of resources in Microsoft Azure public cloud from private or hosted Windows Azure Pack

Saturday, December 12, 2015/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (8159)/Comments (6)/ Article rating: 5.0

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 (6287)/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 (8850)/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
Categories: Windows Azure Pack
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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 (17846)/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 (16609)/Comments (8)/ Article rating: 4.8

CLOUD ASSERT @ WPC 2015 - Come see us

CLOUD ASSERT will be in WPC, Orlando, Florida from July 12th to July 16th

Cloud Assert will be present in upcoming Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference #WPC15, Orlando, Florida from July 12th to 16th. Come see us at booth # MC18 in Microsoft Cloud Partner Pavilion.
7/12/2015 - 7/16/2015/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (2778)/Comments (1)/ Article rating: No rating
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