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Azure technology in your datacenter

Once installed in your datacenter, the Windows Azure Pack integrates with System Center and Windows Server to help provide the following capabilities.

Capabilities

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Management portal for tenants

A Microsoft Azure-consistent, customizable self-service portal experience for provisioning, monitoring and management of services such as Web Sites, Virtual Machines, and Service Bus.

Management portal for administrators

A portal for administrators to configure and manage resource clouds, user accounts, tenant offers, quotas, and pricing.

Service Management API

The foundation for the capabilities in the management portal, the service management API is a REST API that helps enable service access and a range of integration scenarios including custom portals and billing systems.

Web Sites

Consistent with Microsoft Azure Web Sites, this service helps provide a high-density, scalable shared web hosting platform for ASP.NET, PHP, and Node.js web applications. It includes a customizable web application gallery of popular open source web applications and integration with source control systems for custom-developed websites and applications.

Virtual Machines

This service helps provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities for Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs) based on Windows Hyper-V and System Center. It includes a VM template gallery, scaling options, and virtual networking capabilities.

Service Bus

Consistent with Microsoft Azure Service Bus, this service helps provide reliable messaging services between distributed applications. It includes queued and topic-based publish/subscribe capabilities.

Automation and extensibility

The Windows Azure Pack also includes capabilities for automating and integrating additional custom services into the services framework, including a runbook editor and execution environment.

Database as a Service

This service helps provide Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) capabilities for SQL Server and MySQL database servers. This capability is used by web applications in the Web Sites service and more generally by other applications.

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