MICROSOFT® CLOUD OS
The Private Cloud of Choice for Windows Powered by Rackspace
Microsoft® Cloud OS delivers the agility and efficiency of a public cloud, combined with the enhanced
security, control, and performance of a dedicated environment. Get the power of the cloud without the pain
of running it, so you can focus on your core business. Implement your very own private cloud running on
Microsoft Cloud OS and backed by Fanatical Support.®
• Built on familiar Microsoft technologies of Hyper-V® and System Center, this private cloud features a
full, web-based interface thanks to the Window Azure® Pack, enabling user self-service.
• We monitor, maintain the health of, and service your private cloud, 24x7x365.
• 100% Network Uptime Guarantee and a 1-Hour Hardware Replacement Guarantee.
Benefits
Flexible Guest OS Management – Enable or disable guest OS support on your virtual machines based
on your business needs. Guest OS support includes monitoring, backup, troubleshooting, and antivirus.
SUPPORTED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Expertise – We’re a four-time Microsoft Hosting partner of the year. We have hundreds of Microsoft
Certified Professionals running thousands of Microsoft workloads every day.
•Local
• Direct Attached
• Shared SAN
• Dedicated SAN
•JBOD
Scalability with Availability – Scale to thousands of nodes with the Windows Azure Portal, with built-in
features such as live migration and failover clustering for up to 64 nodes.
Security – Get the enhanced security of a single-tenant environment with physically isolated network,
compute, and storage layers. Additional hardware-based network security options are available.
Key Features
Built on Microsoft Hyper-V – Flexible guest VM support on private and secure hardware makes Hyper-V
the hypervisor of choice for your workloads. Cloud OS builds on this platform by introducing automation, monitoring, and self-service provisioning.
Self-service: Windows Azure Pack – Manage your private cloud through an easy-to-use web interface
that gives you self-service provisioning and control of virtual
machines, websites, database as a service, and more.
Cost-effective Licensing – Hyper-V comes free with Windows—
no hypervisor licenses to buy. Our host server licensing allows
unlimited Windows guest operating systems at no additional
cost. And the price difference between Windows DataCenter
edition and the Windows version that includes Cloud OS is
minimal.
Managed Hyper-V Support
Virtual Machine Manager
Grows with You – Want to: manage servers in other Rackspace
data centers from a central portal? Connect and manage
servers in your own data center? Burst out to public Azure?
Do all this and more with private cloud.
Database as a Service – Tired of manually provisioning
databases, managing their security, and figuring out connection
strings? Enable DBaaS through the Windows Azure Pack,
and you and your users can provision and manage Microsoft
SQL Server® or MySQL® databases through a convenient web
interface running on your dedicated, secure hardware.
Storage Spaces – Leverage software defined storage as the
data store for Microsoft Cloud OS powered by Rackspace.
Data Protection Manager
Orchestrator
Operations Manager
Service Manager
Configuration Manager
Custom Interface
Custom Run Book
Custom Solutions
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MICROSOFT® CLOUD OS EDITION
The Private Cloud of Choice for Windows Customers Powered by Rackspace
Move to the cloud at your own pace with the power of the Microsoft Cloud OS powered by Rackspace.
Here‘s what you get:
Private/Secure – Dedicated hardware, architected for your needs
Familiar – Forget about vendor lock-in with
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Systems Center 2012 R2
• Windows Azure Pack
Extensible – Federate with on-premises clouds and Microsoft Azure
A Cloud within a Cloud – Build isolated networks within your cloud
Flexible – Supported by all server, storage, and networking architectures at Rackspace, including
bare-metal. (pending open compute certification)
• Can add hardware incrementally
• Can connect across multiple datacenters
Backed by Fanatical Support® – Microsoft Cloud OS edition includes full support of
the Microsoft Cloud OS components.1
• Infrastructure is 100% backed 24x7x365
• Guest VM support available on your terms
• Guest VMs also supported
Choose the Support You Need – Go at your own pace and get the choice and support level you demand.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server Powered by Rackspace
• Hyper-V management
• Monitored by our systems center
• Available in all US data centers
• Allows for flexible guest VM support
• Supported by a dedicated team of Cloud OS experts
Microsoft Cloud OS Powered by Rackspace
• Includes everything in Hyper-V offering
• Adds a private implementation of the Windows Azure Pack
• Utilizes: Virtual Machine Manger, Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator, Operations Manager,
Service Manager, all deployed in your private cloud
Microsoft Cloud OS Professional Services – When special situations arise, you can rely on
Rackspace hourly professional services.
For more information or to chat with a specialist: 1-844-852-9345 or
www.rackspace.com/microsoft/cloud-os
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All trademarks, service marks, images, products and brands remain the sole property of their respective holders.
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TYPICAL USE CASES
Core Infrastructure
Need more raw compute power for your
custom application? Microsoft Systems
Center is an ideal choice whenever seasonal
spikes require additional power from your
hardware reserves or Microsoft Azure.
Application Hosting
Consisting of Microsoft SharePoint, Lync,
and Exchange, the Rackspace dedicated
Cloud Office product is the ultimate
application for the Microsoft Cloud OS
platform.
Web Hosting
Already the Internet’s second-ranked
WEB server as of April 2014,2 Microsoft
is projected to overtake Apache within
the year. Host your production, QA, and
Dev environments on Systems Center with
confidence.
Database Hosting
Together, System Center, Windows Azure
Pack, SQL Server, and/or MySQL Server
deliver the essential environment to
architect an enterprise-grade SQL database
service. Bring your organization into the
cloud era, while maintaining private-cloud
security. Natively manage database servers
through Systems Center or create a DBaaS.
Disaster Recovery
Consider using Microsoft virtualization
stack for disaster recovery. Build out these
critical environments using technologies
you already know and trust, such as
PowerShell and Windows Server, on a
platform you already have a license.