Looking to transform your data center into more modern, easy to manage and cloud-driven infrastructure? Well, first of all – congratulations! You’re on the right path 😀 – Azure Stack HCI is probably the hottest cake in the hybrid cloud market right now. If you’re planning to move onto Azure Stack HCI but not sure
In this series we are discussing the different products, solutions and services Dell offers for datacenters. In this one, we are going to talk about the converged (CI) and HCI Hyperconverged Infrastructure solutions. Traditional Datacenter With traditional infrastructure, the best option from each category of component is selected and possibly purchased independently of every other
Being able to provision VMs through the public Azure portal has been an eagerly awaited feature amongst the AzS HCI community and finally it is here! And of course, I could not pass off the opportunity to try it myself ASAP! The official Msft documentation is here, and feel free to follow that, but honestly
Installing an OS on the Azure Stack HCI VM we created is exactly the same as installing an OS on any of your on-prem Hyper-V VMs. As you can see, if you try to connect to the VM now, it gives the following error. This is of course expected, since we do not have any
Until now, we’ve created the lab and explored the cluster options and settings. Now finally, it is time to create some virtual machines. Let’s get straight into it! Let’s hit Add in the Virtual Machines button on the menu. Give it a nice name, allocate the essentials like no. of virtual processors, memory and storage.
In the previous part we took the time to set up our AzS HCI lab. If you’ve been following along (I’d strongly recommend to if you haven’t!) you have a 4-node cluster and WAC installed. We have not connected the cluster to Azure just yet and I think it’s better if we looked around the
After reading a lot about Azure Stack HCI, and comparing the two flavors (Windows Server HCI vs Azure Stack HCI), I think it is about time we get some dirt on our hands. That’s right, it is time to spin up our own Azure Stack HCI lab and see it in action! I found this
Azure Stack HCI is Microsoft’s offering in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) space that is widely being adopted as the new datacenter technology in the IT market today. HCI reduces the need for individual, separate, 3-tier datacenter architecture which is often difficult and expensive to set up, maintain and upgrade by combining multiple hardware devices into
Recently I made a career switch and with that, here I am back to learning the alphabets! I mainly come from a software/application background and the new role I’ve landed myself into requires of me not only the application knowledge but also the relevant hardware understanding. What that means for me is going back to
In the previous part we talked about clusters and the core concepts associated with them. We talked about what they are, how they work, how to create them, register them and manage them end-to-end via Windows Admin Center (WAC). In this chapter we are going to talk briefly about some networking concepts associated with Azure
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