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Virtualization improvements for non-HCI installations
Microsoft states that Azure Stack HCI is an ultimate virtualization host. But it comes with its own downsides: first, it is quite costly (for us, for example, it costs 66% more, than Windows Server n...
Elden_Christensen I am talking specifically about non-HCI installations. Yes you did put a lot of work into hyper-converged infrastructure, but not every environment can use it. I am asking about planned improvements for non-HCI virtualization.
Elden_Christensen
Microsoft
MicrosoftWe are also evaluating opening up Azure Stack HCI to empower choice in storage... so that customers have a choice of Software-defined Storage, or to use traditional block storage (FC / FCoE / iSCSI) or file based storage (SMB / NFS). We want AzS HCI to be the preferred virtualization host, no matter what your preference for storage is.
In that case I suggest you to re-evaluate the pricing model for Stack HCI, let it include Windows Server Datacenter licenses. Because with Windows Server 2019 datacenter on a hypervisor I can have both S2D and as many Windows VM as I want. With Stack HCI, I need to pay separate for the HCI capabilities (S2D) and for Windows Server - that's just too expensive.
- Elden_ChristensenToday unfortunately the model is not all the way there yet, you have the infra in a modern subscription offering and then licensing of the guests in a traditional perpetual license... we are looking at how to improve that to offer the guest licenses in a subscription model as well. That will bring alignment.
Well, we are a service provider, so we are already consume Windows Server as subscription through SPLA, so.. 😃