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TOC
- 1. About Azure
- 2. Video
- 3. RightScale Support for Azure
- 3.1. Features
- 4. Published ServerTemplates
- 4.1. By Azure
- 4.2. By RightScale
- 5. Tutorials
- 6. Runbooks
- 7. FAQs
- 8. Known Issues and Limitations
- 9. Contact Information
- 9.1. Azure
- 9.2. RightScale
- 10. See also
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| Azure
A rock-solid cloud platform for blue-sky thinking. |
Although this new feature/technology has undergone significant testing and is not expected to change significantly prior to general release, the use of this feature/technology is not recommended for production environments. You are encouraged to use this feature/technology for development and testing purposes only. Service-level response times are the same as for general-release features.
About Azure
Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. Windows Azure is built to support open technologies with any OS, language, database, or tool. Comprehensive networking capabilities connect on-premise infrastructure to Azure as well as integrated IaaS and PaaS on a shared network.
Video
Demonstration of RightScale managing a basic deployment in Microsoft Azure. (~4 minutes)
Windows Azure & RightScale from RightScale on Vimeo.
RightScale Support for Azure
Features
In addition to the basics on this unified landing page, two additional levels of information can be found for many supported features:
- Overview - Click to see the entire Cloud Overview or jump to a specific feature (below).
- Detailed View - Click on the "Detail" ( ♦ ) icon. (Future.)
| Feature | West US | East US | East Asia | SE Asia | N Europe | W Europe |
| Instances | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Images | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Instance Types | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Volumes | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Volume Snapshots | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Legend:
♦ - Technical Detail Info (actionable). Reserved for future use.
X - Supported feature
Ø - Not supported
Published ServerTemplates
By Azure
None published yet.
By RightScale
- Microsoft IIS App Server
- Database Manager for Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft SQL Server Witness
- Base ServerTemplate for Windows
- Base ServerTemplate for Linux (RSB)
- Base ServerTemplate for Linux
- LAMP All-In-One with MySQL 5.1
- LAMP All-In-One with MySQL 5.5
- LAMP All-In-One Trial with MySQL 5.5
- Load Balancer with HAProxy
- PHP App Server
- Apache-Rails-Passenger App Server
- Tomcat App Server
- Database Manager for MySQL 5.1
- Database Manager for MySQL 5.5
- Storage Toolbox
Tutorials
Runbooks
Runbooks for Windows Azure have not been built out yet.
FAQs
The following are Azure specific FAQs
- Can I use autoscaling with Azure in RightScale?
- How do I increase my limit of cores?
- How do I share custom images across accounts?
- How do I use my existing subnet?
- How many Azure regions can I add to a RightScale account?
- How many disks can I attach per Azure virtual machine size?
- What if my .pfx content is corrupt or password protected?
- Why am I seeing varying boot times?
- Why am I unable to launch multiple servers at once?
- Why are bulk actions not working with Azure in RightScale?
- Why did I receive an error from dcpromo?
- Why does the cloud account link have a red circle?
- Why I am I noticing odd behavior with restoring from snapshots?
Known Issues and Limitations
Contact Information
Azure
- Corporate website: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/
RightScale
- Sales - For information about your account specifics, contact your account manager or email sales@rightscale.com
- Support - Report any bugs related to RightScale, please raise a support ticket from the Dashboard or email support@rightscale.com.