Microsoft IaaS Product Line Architecture Guides on Server 2012 and System Center 2012

Grazed from up2v.nl.  Author: Marcel Van Der Berg.

Microsoft published two very interesting documents which assist in designing and understanding  Infrastructure as a Service based on Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1.

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide (Windows Server 2012).
  This 112 pages document provides specific guidance for developing fabric architectures (compute, network, storage, and virtualization layers) of an overall private cloud solution. All of the Windows Server 2012 features are discussed.
  Very much recommended reading if your task is to design a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V infrastructure.
  Download here…

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Management Architecture Guide (System Center 2012)
  Fabric management is the concept of treating discrete capacity pools of servers, storage, and networks as a single fabric. The fabric is then subdivided into capacity clouds, or resource pools, that carry characteristics like delegation of access and administration, SLAs, and cost metering. Fabric management allows centralizing and automating complex management functions that can be carried out in a highly standardized, repeatable fashion to increase availability and lower operational costs…

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