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6 Deploying Windows Azure nodes in Windows HPC Server 2012 R2

Windows Azure nodes will be deployed to assist the process of running Windows HPC Server 2012 R2 cluster.

6.1 Creating a Windows Azure worker node template

The secondary node configuration template specifies Windows Azure subscription information, add a set of Windows Azure nodes to the cluster. Information includes:

Azure subscription ID. Azure subscription ID is a hexadecimal string of 32 characters, dashes xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
Management certificate thumbprint of the certificate. Fingerprint subscription certificate (also called an administrative certificate) provides the necessary authentication for clients to connect to Windows Azure subscription. This is a hexadecimal string of 40 characters
Name Azure cloud services
Name Azure storage account.

To create a Windows Azure worker node template, do the following:

1. Open HPC Cluster Manager

2. In the "Configuration" in the navigation pane, click the "node template."

3. In the "Operation" pane, click "New", which will bring up the "Create Node Template Wizard."

Figure 56 Creating a new template

4. On the "Select node template type" page, click "Windows Azure node template", then click "Next."

Figure 57 select Windows Azure node template

5. On the "Specify template name" dialog box, enter the name of the working node template, and then click "Next."

Figure 58 specifies the name of the new template

Windows Azure 6. On "provides subscription information" page will be used to add a node to subscribe:

. In the "Subscribe ID" text box, type or paste the ID valid Windows Azure subscription accounts.

Figure 59 Azure subscription ID

b. In the "Certificate Management" text box, browse the local computer account "certificate" store, and then select "Default Microsoft HPC Azure Management" certificate, and then click "Next."

Figure 60 Select the default Microsoft HPC Azure management certificate

Figure 61 Azure subscription ID and certificate fingerprint

7. On the "provision of services" page, choose cloud services and storage account that you created in the previous step. Then click "Next."

Figure 62 Select Azure cloud services and storage accounts created before

FIG proxy node 63 defines the number of Azure

OS computing system 64 designated in FIG node

Azure cloud services are available in three different family of operating systems: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2. Our Azure node template will use the Windows Server 2012 R2 OS system

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Figure 66 templates provided in the same VNET Subnets

8. On the "Configure Remote Desktop Credentials" page, type your user name and password can be used to build Windows Azure nodes remote desktop connection. Provide credentials it will only be used to connect to Windows Azure nodes deployed using this template. Unlike domain credentials or any local credentials. Provided password is stored in encrypted database and HPC

Figure 67 designated remote desktop credentials to access the Azure worker nodes

9. On the "Configure Azure Availability Policy" page, select the desired mode Windows Azure worker nodes starts and stops (either manually or calendar-based scheduler).

68 strategies associated with Azure node template

10. To modify the template secondary role, right-click the node template, select Edit ... (Figure 69).

Figure 69 Change in the Azure node template parameters

11. To verify that Windows Azure connection information, on the "Connection Information" tab, click "Verify connection information."

Figure 70 HEAD verify the connection node and Azure cloud services and storage accounts

During the verification process, the use of certificates Windows HPC Server 2012 R2 configured to connect to Windows Azure subscription, and verify that you can access the Azure Azure cloud services and storage accounts