Windows Azure Pack terminology

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Applies To: Windows Azure Pack

The following terms are used in Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server.

  • Add-on
    In Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server, an optional service that is offered by a hosting service provider that can be added to a service plan.

  • Billing adapter
    A billing adapter is software written by a cloud service provider to capture tenant usage data and recent event notification from a Windows Azure Pack installation. The data captured is then used to calculate tenant billing information or used for analytics processing.

  • Gallery
    A collection of standard and reusable virtual machine roles that a tenant of a hosting service provider can receive as part of a service plan to provision their virtual machines. Gallery items can include base operating system images as well as images with preinstalled applications.

  • Hosting service provider
    A service provider that offers scalable infrastructure services to multiple customers.

  • Management portal for administrators
    The Windows Azure Pack portal interface used by hosting service providers to configure and manage resource clouds; user accounts; and tenant offers, quotas and pricing.

  • Management portal for tenants
    A customizable self-service portal that tenants use to subscribe to and manage services such as Web Sites, Virtual Machines, and Service Bus.

  • Plan
    Defines a package of one or more services, and possibly resource usage quotas, that can be offered by a hosting service provider.

  • Runbook
    A collection of tasks and process steps that are performed in a given order to automate a business process.

  • Subscription
    An agreement by the customer of a hosting service provider to pay for selected plan services.

  • Tenant
    A tenant is a subscriber, typically an organization, that uses the cloud services created and provisioned by a hosting service provider.