I am new to Windows Azure and need help with deploying my Azure application, which is correctly deployed to Azure, to a local server.
My application consists of one Web Role, which contains a Silverlight client for a Silverlight application.
I installed and configured windows server appfabric on the server and the server is actually ready. But I don’t know how can I deploy/publish the application.
To deploy to Azure, i created the .cspkg file using the publish option in the right click on Azure application. And then deployed the generated files to Azure using azure management portal. how can i do something like that for the local server?
The bottom line is that you can not deploy Azure Application to Windows Server machines in your own data center and David added all the info needed on this context. However, I just want to add little more as you are new to Windows Azure. I can understand why you are trying to do something like this and because I have had similar conversation with other partners in past, I believe this information is useful.
The main why you couldn’t do it because Windows Azure main components i.e. Compute, Storage, Networking and other value added services which are built upon main component are just not available in your machine however, there is a lot more to it.
Windows Azure Appliance is a product which can be deployed to any Data Center and currently used by Dell, eBay, Fujitsu and HP as described in this link. Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appliance are not exactly same, however, Windows Azure Appliance does have a similar model of Compute, package deployment, Storage, Management portal and functionality. So when available to general public this could be a choice for data centers to have something similar to Azure running in their premise however it is currently available to only very limited partners.