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As if all the different components and modules in the Microsoft System Center product family weren’t confusing enough, the new Windows Azure Pack (WAP) could potentially be one of the most head-scratching components of the System Center suite. That said, it also has the potential to be one of the single most important components of the entire system!
Although the Windows Azure Pack started as a way to bring the gorgeous HTML5 user experience developed for Windows Azure for deployment on premise by IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service or VMs to you and me) hosting companies, WAP was first offered to the public under the bewildering moniker “Windows Azure Services for Windows Server” and was commonly referred to by the internal Microsoft codename, Katal.
The Windows Azure Pack (WAP) brings Azure cloud integration to Microsoft System Center and Windows Server. (Source: Microsoft)
Building on the framework of the Azure portal, Windows Azure Pack includes the following components:
As an extensible framework, WAP makes it easy to add new experiences and features to the environment for both the administrators and tenants. The current modules which are available for integration into the framework are:
Windows Azure Pack is delivered as a collection of different components, porting windows Azure features on premise, and offered at no additional cost ready for integrating into your Windows Server System Center 2012 SP1 and newer environments. But is not distributed in the normal manner in which we have become accustomed to with other Microsoft System Center products.
Leveraging the Web Platform Installer, the installation of the pack can be consolidated down to a single machine for evaluation purposes, or deployed in a highly distributed configuration to support extreme scaling and high availability.
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