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Manage all your Hybrid Cloud Resources with Hybr® SDX Datacenter

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The hybrid cloud management, automation, and integration platform offers a multi-tenant portal experience that enables you provisioning and management of IaaS VMs across VMware vCenter, System Center / Hyper-V, Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub, Azure, AWS, etc., It provides a single-pane of glass experience for all your cloud needs.

Hybr® SDX Datacenter - An Alternative Platform for Windows Azure Pack

Many enterprises and service providers alike are wondering about the IT roadmap for delivering multi-tenant cloud experience from their Data Center after Windows Azure Pack.

Hybr® SDX Datacenter is an independent platform built by Cloud Assert for cross-cloud self-management and billing automation.

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Cloudify Your VMware vCenter

Turn vCenter into a multi-tenant self-service cloud with Hybr® SDX Datacenter for Rich Management, Automation, and Billing.

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Cloud Billing, Management & Orchestration

Automate workloads provisioning, resource utilization tracking, usage reporting across multi-cloud platforms and data sources along with approval workflow processes gives you a total control over your customer policies, pricing profiles, subscriptions, invoices, etc., specifically for the chargeback purposes.

Out of the box integrations for VMWare vCenter, System Center/ Windows Server 2016 and beyond, Open Stack, Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, Commvault, Veeam, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack HCI, XaaS (anything as a service) and more.

Flexible Deployment

  • Integrated UI experience within Azure Stack Hub Portal
  • Portal extension for Windows Azure Pack
  • Cloud Hosted on Microsoft Azure as a SaaS portal
  • On-premise Standalone for Windows Server 2016 and 2019
  • Multiple of the above combinations can be leveraged side by side.

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Admin Portal

HYBR Administrator portal helps you to manage your multi-cloud platforms and allow your tenants to provision VMs across those endpoints. It gives you the total control of your tenant subscriptions, invoices, bills, etc., right within your admin portal.

  • Cross-cloud IaaS integrations and Management
  • Ultimate flexibility and control on your Tenant workloads provisioning and deployment
  • Centralized policy management for VM provisioning
  • Usage and Billing for your different services

Tenant Portal

It allows your end-users to manage and provision VMs against their subscriptions, track the resource consumptions and see their ongoing usages in real-time, pay bills right within your tenant portal via the integrated payment gateways like Stripe, PayPal, etc.,

  • IaaS resource provisioning and Management
  • Setup n-tier approval workflows with automated actions
  • Bulk VM Provisioning and Policy Management like VM turn On/ Off, etc.,
  • Visibility into ongoing usages and its associated cost


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Key Features

Cross-cloud IaaS Integrations

Provision and Manage VMs, Discovery and Sync, Policy Management, Metering and Monitoring & Scheduled tasks

API endpoints Integration

VM Provisioning/management and Billing services are exposed as API endpoints for integration with existing solutions.

Cloud Orchestration

VM Provisioning & Management, Backups, ITSM, Approval Workflows & Portal extensions for Microsoft Azure Stack and Windows Azure Pack

Cloud Governance & Control

Seamless integrations with existing data centers, public and private cloud. Check Policies, Soft budget, Quota Settings, Utilization Tracking & Auditing

Cloud Discovery & Migration

Automated discovery of workloads & Migration of legacy assets to the cloud

Automated Workflows

Enable VM provisioning via manual and automated workflows with multi-level request/order management and approvals.

Hybr® SDX Datacenter Datasheet

Hybr® SDX Datacenter is a cross-cloud automation and integration platform provides a multi-tenant portal experience that enables you to provision and manage your IaaS VMs across VMware vCenter, System Center / Hyper-V, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Stack, AWS, etc., and related resources on a self-service basis.

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How HYBR Benefits your Organization

Increased IT Efficiency

Centralize Control and Improve Visibility across your Clouds

improved productivity

Single Pane of Experience for all your Cloud Needs

reduced cloud spend

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A Leader in Hybrid Cloud Management Since 2014

Cloud Assert has been trusted by Fortune 100 Companies as a Leader in Hybrid Cloud Management, Cost Management and Billing since 2014.

Cloud Assert work closely with Microsoft and our customers in building Hybr VConnect and Billing solutions to complement Microsoft Azure Stack adoption and to deliver a powerful hybrid cloud platform.

We're glad that customers can now take advantage of all the great features of Azure Stack without impacting existing infrastructure investments

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Stay ahead with Usage and Billing v2.1.8.34 for Microsoft Azure Stack

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Author: Arun Krishnan/Wednesday, July 3, 2019/Categories: Microsoft Azure Stack, Products, Usage and Billing

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We are pleased to announce the release of Usage and Billing v2.1.8.34 for Microsoft Azure Stack to General Availability. 

What's New?

  1. Supports Microsoft Azure Stack Version 1905:
    • The Deployment scripts for the Cloud Assert Billing solution is now compatible with Azure Stack PowerShell version 1.7.2.
    • Cloud Assert Billing resource provider for Microsoft Azure Stack was tested against 1905 version.

  2. Daily cost trend for user’s subscriptions:
    • In the Tenant portal, the cost trend for each subscription of the user can be seen.
    • The cost trend can be seen for previous billing cycles as well.

  3. Configure Budgets for user’s subscriptions:
    • Tenants can set budgets for each subscription they own and set thresholds (say like 90% reach) to trigger a kind of warning alerts.
    • Warning alerts can be sent via email and it could be seen in the Tenant portal as well.

Known Issues:

  1. The CSP customer profile will be created before the administrator approves.
  2. The admin approval for a created customer profile is needed for the tenants to purchase CSP offers/licenses.
  3. Only 200 metered pricing will be displayed/ listed when a pricing profile is opened.

Installers:



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Upgrade Notes: 
Updating Billing API and Agent Service
Pre-uninstall Steps

  • Take a backup of Cloud Assert billing database.
  • Take a backup of the following files from their respective locations.

File Name

File Path

Web.config

C:\inetpub\MgmtSvc-CloudAssertBilling

License.cal

C:\inetpub\MgmtSvc-CloudAssertBilling\bin

CloudAssert.WAP.Billing.AgentService.exe.config

C:\Program Files\CloudAssertBilling\CloudAssert.WAP.Billing.AgentService

 
Uninstallation Steps

  • Uninstall existing Usage and Billing installers from Add or Remove Programs on the resource provider machine.
  • Delete ‘CloudAssertBilling’ from ‘C:\Program Files’ if it presents after uninstalling Billing Agent Service setup.

Installation Steps

  • Copy the initialize.ini file from the following location ‘C:\Packages\Plugins\Microsoft.Powershell.DSC\2.19.0.0\DSCWork\setupBillingConfiguration.0\AzureStack.Billing.Setup.1.0.0\content\Setup\Packages’.
  • Place ‘setup.bat’ and ‘initialize.ini’ (which are acquired from the above steps) files in the folder where the billing installers have been extracted.

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Installing Billing API Service

  • Open a command prompt as administrator.
  • Navigate to the billing installers folder.
  • Run ‘setup.bat install-api’.

Installing Billing Agent Service

  • Refresh the admin/tenant portal and verify that Billing extension is working fine.
  • Open a command prompt as administrator.
  • Navigate to the billing installers folder.
  • Run ‘setup.bat install-agent’.

Post Installation Steps

  • Download the Billing tool and extract it.
  • Open a command prompt as administrator.
  • Navigate to the billing tool folder.
  • Run the ‘UpdateDatabase’ command in BillingTool.exe as below (the API endpoint, user name and password can be found from ‘initialize.ini’ file which is mentioned in Installation Steps),


Updating Resource Provider Components
Pre-Uninstall Steps

  • Take a backup of the following files from their respective locations.

File Name

File Path

web.config

C:\inetpub\AzureStack-BillingAdminExtension

web.config

C:\inetpub\AzureStack-BillingTenantExtension

Web.config

C:\inetpub\AzureStack-BillingRP

 

Installing Billing Admin Extension

  • Download and extract the admin extension.
  • In the command prompt, change the directory to the AdminExtension folder.
  • Run the command “CloudAssert.AzureStack.Billing.AdminExtension.deploy.cmd /y”.
  • Open the web.config file from ‘C:\inetpub\AzureStack-BillingAdminExtension’.
  • Replace the <appSettings> section from the corresponding backup file.

Installing Billing Tenant Extension

  • Download and extract tenant extension.
  • In the command prompt, change the directory to the TenantExtension folder.
  • Run the command “CloudAssert.AzureStack.Billing.TenantExtension.deploy.cmd /y”.
  • Open the web.config file from ‘C:\inetpub\AzureStack- AzureStack-BillingTenantExtension’.
  • Replace the <appSettings> section from the corresponding backup file.

Installing Billing Resource Provider

  • Download and extract resource provider.
  • In the command prompt, change the directory to the RP folder.
  • Run the command “CloudAssert.MAS.Billing.ResourceProvider.deploy.cmd /y”.
  • Open the web.config file from ‘C:\inetpub\AzureStack-BillingRP’.
  • Replace the <appSettings> section from the corresponding backup file.
  • Ensure that the following two app settings are present in the config file after replacing the old app settings. Incase it is not available; copy paste the below two lines inside the <appSettings> section.

<add key="BillingRp.AdminTrustedCertificateThumbPrint" value="AdminThumbPrint1, AdminThumbPrint2" />

<add key="BillingRp.TenantTrustedCertificateThumbPrint" value="TenantThumbPrint1, TenantThumbPrint1" />



If you face any issues during the installation please reach us at support@cloudassert.com

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