Azure Stack HCI
A hyperconverged infrastructure operating system delivered as an Azure service that provides security, performance, and feature updates.
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· Azure Stack HCI is Hypervisor like Hyper-V or VMware?
Azure Stack HCI is built on-top of existing Windows technologies, including Hyper-V, Storage Spaces and ARC.Hyper-V is the underlying technology – HCI is the addition of additional services, integrations and management optimizations – including Azure based management for a better hybrid experienceHyper-V is the underlying technology – HCI is the addition of additional services, integrations and management optimizations – including Azure based management for a better hybrid experience.
Hyper-V https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/overview#azure-stack-hci-features-and-architecture
· What different between Azure Stack HCI and Hyper-V?
Hyper-V is the underlying technology – HCI is the addition of additional services, integrations and management optimizations – including Azure based management for a better hybrid experience.
Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/concepts/compare-windows-server
· Azure Stack HCI is require special server model/type?
There are approved models available from many vendors – but in general it’s a standard x64 base server with local storage.
Yes, please refer this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/overview#what-you-need-for-azure-stack-hci and https://azurestackhcisolutions.azure.microsoft.com/#/catalog
· Currently when use VMware or Hyper-V we usually have SAN Storage for centralize the data. What i heard now if use Azure stack HCI we no need SAN Storage and we can combine all local storage on each Azure stack server to cluster storage?
Currently you can't use SAN storage with HCI. HCI stands for Hyperconverged Infrastructure basically all-in-one infra (hypervisor, storage and networking), the HW that you get from our catalog will all have solutions that have storage included.
· Will all the VMs inside the Azure Stack HCI free of windows license like we use Hyper-V?
No, you need to have your own Windows licenses. Or you can also add guest Windows server subscription https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-stack/hci/#pricing
· Is Windows Admin Center Mandatory used?
No, you deploy and manage from Azure Portal https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/deploy/deployment-introduction#about-deployment-methods
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