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Tuesday, Mar 26, 2024, 10:00 AM PDTEvent details
Recent developments in the on-premises virtualization market have unsettled users and prompted a re-evaluation of their organization's strategy. Microsoft provides a robust set of solutions tailored ...
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Updated Dec 27, 2024
mach428
Mar 26, 2024Copper Contributor
Can we leverage the existing hardware to virtualize the VMs using Azure stack HCI to avoid the upfront costs?
Jeff-Woolsey
Microsoft
Mar 26, 2024For production use, we recommend you look at hardware on the Azure Stack HCI catalog because the hardware systems have been curated and validated. We're trying to avoid people setting up Azure Stack HCI on 5-year-old hardware with random NICs and then having issues because the hardware is missing features and offloads that HCI uses. There are over 500 Azure Stack HCI Solutions available.
If you want to try out Azure Stack HCI, contact your favorite hardware partner and tell them you'd like to see if they have any evaluation units for a proof of concept.
Finally, if you have recent hardware and want to try it for evaluation, you can install it yourself. The system requirements are here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/concepts/system-requirements?tabs=azure-public