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21 TopicsLearn about Azure Stack HCI on Microsoft Learn!
Last week the general availability of the new Azure Stack HCI, our new hybrid cloud hyper-converged platform was announced. With the release of this new platform, the team also released a new Microsoft Learn learning path called Azure Stack HCI foundations. In this learning path, you will be introduced to the Azure Stack portfolio and describes basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of its products. You’ll also learn about the differences and similarities between Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure. If you want to get an overview of the Azure Stack portfolio or the new Azure Stack HCI 20H2 version, check out my blog posts. The new Azure Stack HCI foundations learning path on Microsoft Learn currently has 4 modules: Introduction to Azure Stack This module introduces you to the Azure Stack portfolio and describes basic architecture, core capabilities, and primary use cases of its products. You’ll also learn about the differences and similarities between Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure. You can check out the module here. Introduction to Azure Stack HCI core technologies This module introduces Azure Stack HCI technologies. You’ll learn about the core Azure Stack HCI technologies, including Hyper-V, Windows Server software-defined storage, and Windows Server software-defined networking. You can check out the module here. Plan and deploy Azure Stack HCI This module introduces you to planing for and deploying Azure Stack HCI. Content includes identifying suitable workloads, determining the optimal configuration to host these workloads, stepping through the deployment process, validating post-deployment operational status, and evaluating Azure integration options. You can check out the module here. Integrate Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI In this module, you will learn the fundamentals of Azure Arc and how is it used to bring new capabilities to the management and monitoring of your Azure Stack HCI clusters at scale. You can check out the module here. You can read the full blog post here.2.2KViews3likes0CommentsAzure Stack HCI / Azure Local with Stretched Cluster support?
Hi, i need to propone an Azure Stack HCI solution in streteched cluster mode. I see that the stretched cluster is available only in 22h2 version.. It's an old version.. When the Stretched cluster mode will be available on Azure stack hci o windows server 2025 for local only deployment? Thanks!Solved1.1KViews1like6CommentsGuidance on Network Configurations for Azure Stack HCI Cluster
Hello All, I am going to deploy my very first Azure Stack HCI cluster. I need guidance on how to assign the IP addresses to the NICs, what should be IP address scheme, and best practices. Details of network adapters are as follows: 2 NICs of 25 Gbps for compute/Virtualization (VMs) traffic 2 NICs of 25 Gbps for Storage 2 NICs of 1 Gbps for Mgmt Questions: (1) How to assign the IP addresses? since it's my first time with the black screen. (2) How to configure SET for the NICs to be used for virtualization/compute step-by-step? (3) I know that I don't need to configure SET (Switch Embedded Teaming) for the Storage NICs, but what should I do for the Mgmt NICs? Should I configure SET for them OR should 1 NIC be enough for the Mgmt? (4) How to configure SET step-by-step? (5) What is the recommendation for the IP address scheming for all the NICs? Let's say I'm assigning 10.4.8.x to the Mgmt NICs, should I use the same IP address scheme for Storage and Compute NICs as well, or should I assign some different IP schemes like 172.x.x.x (6) There are 2 NICs for Storage and we are not configuring SET for them... So, just to confirm, will I need to assign 2 IP addresses for Storage on each server? (7) How to enable the iWARP RDMA for the Storage NICs? I'm thinking to use iWARP RDMA as I read MSFT engineers recommend/prefer iWARP over RoCE. Please confirm my understanding. (8) For the Mgmt NIC, first I will configure the SET then I will assign the IP address to the SET NIC, just like we used to with the conventional NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 R2. Apologies in advance for such basic questions... It's my first time with Azure Stack HCI... Thank you very much!Solved8.9KViews1like9Comments