Enterprises and Service providers have been leveraging Windows Azure Pack and System Center VMM to deliver an on-premises private cloud experience to customers for several years now. With the end-of-life set for Windows Azure Pack in July 2022 comes the challenge of migrating users from those platforms to a future-proof solution that will scale well and bring continuous innovations for service delivery for years to come. An essential aspect of the challenge is to migrate users as seamlessly as possible, with zero impact on the workloads. This article will explore how to accomplish it and a real-life success story of migrating a large customer with hundreds of tenants from Windows Azure Pack to the modern Hybr® SDX Datacenter platform.

We are pleased to announce the release of VConnect 2.1.6 for Windows Azure Pack to General Availability. 

What's New?

1. Service Requests/Deployment Request:
   • Edit option for the failed deployments of the Service Requests in the tenant portal.
   • Edit and Upload file options included in the Deployment request details page for the tenants

We are pleased to announce the release of VConnect 2.1.5 for Windows Azure Pack to General Availability. 

What's New?

1. VMware:
   • VM Creation would not use Cache for retrieving templates from the server.

We are pleased to announce the release of VConnect 2.1.4 for Windows Azure Pack to General Availability. 

What's New?

1. Service/ Deployment Requests:
   • In the Tenant portal, Included the Refresh button in the Approval tab of the Deployment Requests.

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

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

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.

Cloud Assert VConnect integrates VMWare vCenter clusters and datacenters with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack.