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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 (8867)/Comments (9)/ Article rating: 4.4

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 (17859)/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 (16696)/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 (10842)/Comments (10)/ Article rating: 5.0
VConnect Windows Azure Pack Extension - Beta v1.0 Update 3

VConnect Windows Azure Pack Extension - Beta v1.0 Update 3

VConnect for VMWare® - WAP Extension

VConnect is a custom extension for Windows Azure Pack to allow management and provisioning of VMs hosted on VMWare. VConnect helps integrate VMWare hosts and Virtual Machines with Windows Azure Pack. Provides admin and tenant management functionalities for VMWare resources through Windows Azure Pack (WAP) service management portal.

Monday, April 7, 2014/Author: Anonym/Number of views (10478)/Comments (11)/ Article rating: 5.0

Road to Cloud Part 1: Which cloud type suits for your organization?

When to choose 'Private Cloud' vs 'Public Cloud' vs 'Hybrid Cloud' vs 'Hosted Cloud' ?

What are the motivations for choosing one type of cloud vs the other ? We will explore and provide pointers to help you get started on the journey of choosing and implementing the right cloud architecture for your business. This article series is more of an exploration and discussion around this area. For your specific scenarios and needs, to find a recommended architecture, we need to analyze and research the right model. We love to hear your thoughts and specific scenarios that we may have not covered, please use the comments section to talk about it, see you there.

Thursday, March 27, 2014/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (6484)/Comments (3)/ Article rating: 4.0
Categories: Tech Tuesday

Azure Connect (Beta) Updates

Updates to Azure Connect Beta for Windows Azure Pack

Details about Azure Connect beta updates to the install binaries.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (7768)/Comments (2)/ Article rating: No rating

Windows Azure vs Windows Azure Pack

Top 5 reasons for choosing Windows Azure Pack on-premise cloud for Enterprise

Compliance, Security Concerns, Consolidate existing on-premise infrastructure, Self-service & agility, Transparency, visibility and collaboration

Monday, February 10, 2014/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (19891)/Comments (3)/ Article rating: 4.5
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