Windows Azure Pack -VM Role Gallery Item Advanced!Daniel Neumann

Senior Microsoft Cloud Consultant – F&M group

MVP- System Center Cloud & Datacenter Management

Agenda

• WAP VM Role – Client OS

• WAP VM Role – Regional Settings

• WAPVM Role – Linux Distributions

WAP VM Role – Client OS

WAP VM Role – Client OS• Direct link to the VHD in the Resource Definition

WAP VM Role – Client OS• Tenant must be able to define the user name

• Administrator is not allowed

• Product key has to be set on the VHD• Set-SCVirtualHardDisk -VMMServer VMMServer -VirtualHardDisk VHDX –ProductKey “product key”

• http://1drv.ms/1Fyvz8P

WAP VM Role – Regional Settings

WAP VM Role – Regional Settings• Use control panel tools with a XML file

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964650

• Post install script in the Resource Extension

• 4 files needed for en-us and de-de scenario• en-us.xml

• de-de.xml

• SystemLocale.cmd

• SystemLocale.ps1

• http://1drv.ms/1w9mPC4

WAP VM Role – Regional Settings• de-de.xml

• SystemLocale.cmd

WAP VM Role – Regional Settings• SystemLocale.ps1

WAP VM Role – Regional Settings

WAP VM Role – Linux Distributions• You must use root as the user name

• Otherwise a deployment error will occur

• Error (10619)The user name provided is not a valid local administrator user name for this operating system.

• Preinstalled agent in the base VHD• VMM Linux Agent

• Windows Azure Linux Agent

• http://www.danielstechblog.de/linux-deployment-wap-vm-role-gallery-item/

• http://www.danielstechblog.de/linux-deployment-wap-vm-role-gallery-item-addition-one/

WAP VM Role – Linux Distributions*root password not set

** edit interfaces file

*** computer name & root password not set

**** edit ifcfg-eth0 file

Distribution VMM Linux Agent Windows Azure Linux

Agent

CentOS 7.0 successful successful

Debian 7.7 successful successful

fedora 21 successful not successful***

openSUSE 13.1 not successful* not successful*

openSUSE 13.2 not successful* not successful*

Oracle Linux 6.6 successful**** successful****

RHEL 7.0 successful successful

SLES 11 SP3 successful successful

SLES 12 not successful* not successful***

Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 successful successful**

Ubuntu Server 14.04 successful successful

WAP VM Role – Appendix A• https://vmroleauthor.codeplex.com/

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjbVGPEELuaSuM-0eh9GO05zDFUudydJ1

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/07/17/the-windows-azure-pack-vm-role-introduction.aspx

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/07/31/the-windows-azure-pack-vm-role-part-2-concept.aspx

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/09/15/the-windows-azure-pack-vm-role-part-3-resource-definition.aspx

WAP VM Role – Appendix B• http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/08/01/grit-1-2-updated-

tool-to-import-and-configure-vm-role-gallery-items-in-wap.aspx

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/11/25/troubleshooting-windows-azure-pack-amp-gallery-items-vm-roles-part-1.aspx

• http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/11/27/troubleshooting-windows-azure-pack-and-gallery-items-part-2.aspx