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By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:42:12 +0000

In reply to PP. you can download the Azure Stack HCI OS here

By: PP

PP — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:35:59 +0000

Where can you download Azure Stack HCI OS from?

By: paolo

paolo — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:19:35 +0000

at this point I am missing differences with Azure Stack HUB: will I be able to manage SDN and SDS in New Azure Stack HCI? Also, today the hci platform to go for MS is the new one or the old one will be kept ?

By: CyrAz

CyrAz — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:36:27 +0000

So you say HCI will cost $10/core/month _not including_ the licence for the guest VMs? So you would likely need an additional Windows Server Datacenter license for all the cores in the environment?
Let’s quickly do the math for a very basic scenario where you have 16 cores, since that’s the minimum you must license for Windows Server : 16*10*12=$1920/year for 16 cores vs. a Windows Datacenter license for $6150 (retail price).
Which mean after three years you will have paid more in HCI license than the Windows Datacenter license…

… while you can very well deploy almost everything HCI offers (admin center, S2D, SDN, integration to Azure services such as monitoring/backup…) simply with the Datacenter license, bar a few new features listed in the article, at least for now.

So I really hope HCI will offer much more than that in a near future, otherwise it will be pretty difficult to see its benefits…

By: Volodymyr

Volodymyr — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:15:27 +0000

Thanks for the great article, Thomas.
I’ve got one question though.
You mentioned the price formula “$10/Core/Month”. Is this an official information? It is not available on Microsoft Azure HCI billing page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/concepts/billing?WT.mc_id=thomasmaurer-blog-thmaure
Could this be some kind of internal information, or I just search it wrong?
I’m doing a price estimation for Azure HCI cluster and would be very appreciated for a link to MS website.
Thanks.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:08:49 +0000

Thank you for the information.
When will the new SCVMM be released? Will there be, or is there even a preview?

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:28:38 +0000

In reply to Thomas.

Yes, SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) support for Azure Stack HCI will be available in the future.
You can get the current preview of Azure Stack HCI here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack/hci/hci-download?WT.mc_id=thomasmaurer-blog-thmaure

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:42:40 +0000

Hi Thomas,

when will there be a SCVMM version, that supports Azure Stack HCI 20H2?
Will there be a public preview?

Thank you!
Thomas

By: Markus

Markus — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:45:09 +0000

MS is too late, unfortunately. Spend thousands of EUR for backup solution already. The monitoring option is nice, but with 160 cores in a 4-node system unattractive from cost. The only real improvement would be the resync acceleration during S2D repair: Running hybrid disks (SSD / HDD under WS2019 HCI) with a usage of approx 60% its a pain to install monthly patches (duration 12…14hours)