Microsoft delivers on-premises private-cloud building functionality
When it comes to building private clouds, Microsoft is planning to offer customers two ways to go: One using its Windows Azure cloud operating system on forthcoming pre-configured Windows Azure Appliances; and one assembled of various on-premises components atop Windows Server.
On August 15, Microsoft made available the final version of one of the building blocks for its latter option. That product — System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Self Service Portal 2.0 — is the customer-focused version of what was formerly known as the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit. It is available from the Microsoft Download Center.
The VMMSSP self-service portal is a collection of tools and guidance for building cloud services on top of the Windows Server (rather than the Windows Azure) platform. As Microsoft explains it, VMMSSP is a partner-extensible offering that can be used to “pool, allocate, and manage resources to offer infrastructure as a service and to deliver the foundation for a private cloud platform inside your datacenter.”
The portal features a dynamic-provisioning engine, as well as a pre-built web-based user interface that “has sectionsfor both the datacenter managers and the business unit IT consumers, with role-based access control,” according to a new post on TechNet blogs.
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