When Azure was first lunched it was a PaaS offering and did not offer persistent VMs. Then they released the IaaS offering but it was in beta for a long time.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: System Center on Azure? On a side note: After the post this morning I went out and read a bit about laaS but what does that do that couldn't be done before in Azure? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thompson, Joseph W (Joe) Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: System Center on Azure? Only a certain level of compute, network and storage is allowed per month "FREE". Like John said, if you leave it running, you quickly use your allocation. In fact, I used my entire allocation the weekend I setup ConfigMgr2012 in Azure. There are powershell scripts you can use to kill your sessions and export the vm's you've created, but I don't see that as practical unless you are on a very faster internet connection... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dzikowski, Michael Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: System Center on Azure? Isn't there an Azure for developers that's free? I forget... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: System Center on Azure? The cost of this would be very expensive for a lab environment. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thompson, Joseph W (Joe) Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 6:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: System Center on Azure? Not sure if you have seen this.. http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/04/24/step-by-step-build-a-free-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-sp1-lab-in-the-cloud.aspx With Azure IaaS going GA in April, anything is possible now -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Finnesey Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 11:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] System Center on Azure? Has anyone come across any white papers on installing System Center on Azure? Sent from my iPad mini ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer.
