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Azure Stack HCI

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What is Azure Stack HCI?

Microsoft offers hyperconverged infrastructure solutions via Azure Stack HCI. Azure Stack HCI provides a variety of preferred hardware solutions for building a hybrid cloud infrastructure, allowing the user to run virtual machines on hyperconverged systems and use Windows Admin Center to connect to Azure for cloud services.

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Azure Stack HCI - The Hybrid Cloud

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Being it is a hybrid cloud-based, will be able to deploy the end to end application easily Opportunity to deploy the applications both on-premise and as well as on the cloud Azure stack HCI supports integration features, so that will be able to integrate other applications/features Azure stack HCI is a hybrid cloud-based, so we can work on Linux as well with the help of the virtualization principle.

Pros

  • Able to manage hybrid OS on the cloud.
  • The integration feature is very helpful too.
  • Works on both Windows and Linux by virtualization technique.

Cons

  • Interruptions are there when the connection is low.
  • Improvement needed on Integration feature.
  • A lot of issues were faced while implementing.
  • Documentation should be clear and straightforward.
  • Improvement needed on Documentation.

Return on Investment

  • The upside is the integration feature.
  • Pricing is a little higher.
  • When compared with another platform, Azure Stack HCI is performing/ functioning brilliantly.

Other Software Used

VMware HCX (CloudVelox), Cisco HyperFlex, Dell EMC VxRail

Hybrid Operating Friendly system

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hybrid Operating system - Azure Stack HCI is a hyper-converged infrastructure operating system. We can use it for managing hybrid operating systems on the cloud. so we have used for cost affecting the cloud service in our current client I suggest we can use it a minimal way for hybrid cloud computing through Azure Stack HCI.

Pros

  • Azure Stack HCI operating system
  • Windows Admin Center
  • Hyper-V-based compute resources

Cons

  • SDN-based virtualized networking using Network Controller
  • Validated hardware from an OEM partner
  • Azure hybrid services

Return on Investment

  • Scale-out storage
  • Virtual desktop infrastructure
  • Trusted enterprise virtualization

Alternatives Considered

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Microsoft Azure Key Vault, Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform) and Azure Databases

Other Software Used

Azure Data Lake Storage, Microsoft Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL Database