After your resources are configured and your SPF is registered, you’re ready to start rolling out services! The way services are exposed is through plans and subscriptions. Here’s how: Creating a plan In the WAP Admin Portal go to Plans. Click on + New -> PLAN -> CREATE PLAN. Specify a name for the plan […]
If you have added resources (hyper V hosts) to your virtual machine manager and created a cloud, the next step is to register your SPF and VMM servers on the WAPADMIN portal (you can learn more about why here). Thankfully, this is a straightforward process. Registering SPF and VMM on the WAPADMIN Login to the WAPADMIN […]
Creating a Virtual Machine Template Copy a Hyper V virtual hard disk image over to your VMM Library share. [e.g. we used the Windows 2012 vhdx file that came with the WAP installation media and copied it over to our share \\vmm01\VMMLibrary share]. You can use this article if you need to import the resource. Sign […]
From the VMM Console, go to VMs and Services tab in the lower left panel On the left middle menu, right clock on Clouds and choose “Create Cloud” Pick a name and the hosts that will be a part of the cloud. The VMs created by tenants will reside on these hosts. Choose the appropriate logical […]
To add a host Sign on the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) server with the service account (VMM_SVC). Navigate and open up the Virtual Machine Console. Open the Fabric work-space In the Fabric pane, click Servers You can create host groups for easy separation of hosts On the Home tab, click Add Resources, then Hyper-V Hosts and […]
Preparing your WAP setup to make available the VM Clouds service to your tenant is a many-step process and it’s easy to go wrong in so many places making the process unnecessarily long-drawn-out. Once these steps are complete, your admin should be able to offer VM Clouds services: And your tenant will be able to create and […]
Not having your deployment machines regularly updated can run you into many issues, and the error messages being vague as they are, it’s possible to be troubleshooting in the dark for a while (as we did!). Here’s a list of issues we found related to Windows’ updates not being installed: we’ll add to this list as […]
Here’s something that might save someone a lot of time (also cross-posted on our Support site). If, while configuring SQL Server database as a service, you run into a red exclamation point on the SQL Server Database menu item on the tenant portal and/or get an ‘unexpected error’ while trying to add a database, it […]
Monitoring your service reveals problems, but do you know the scope & impact of those problems?
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