3. What is the nature and description of the request?

The customer would like to be able to provision systems in the Microsoft Azure cloud platform much the same way as Satellite allows them to do for VMware, EC2, or OpenStack.

4. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

They use the Azure cloud as their public cloud and want to be able to easily scale out RHEL capability there.

5. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)

Satellite would include the ability to add the Azure cloud as a provisioning

6. For each functional requirement listed, specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented.

Ability to authenticate and provision a RHEL system in the Azure cloud.

8. Does the customer have any specific timeline dependencies and which release would they like to target (i.e. RHEL5, RHEL6)?

Satellite 6.2

9. Is the sales team involved in this request and do they have any additional input?

Yes, very involved.

11. Would the customer be able to assist in testing this functionality if implemented?

Yes.