Azure Stack HCI Technical Jumpstart - May 

Tuesday, May 02, 2023 at 10:00 AM – Wednesday, May 03, 2023 at 6:00 PM

Microsoft are offering a 2 day Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Technical Jumpstart Workshop in partnership with Intel !
Registrations for these sessions are now live here:



This 2-day Azure Hybrid workshop is designed for technical presales and many other IT professionals to better understand Microsoft Hyperconverged solution, Azure Stack HCI. With just commodity and yet highly powerful Intel servers, Azure Stack HCI is designed to be reliable and high performing storage solution with well designed and developed on-premise HCI capabilities and yet easily connect to Azure for Hybrid extensibility and manageability. It’s well suited for Edge and ROBO deployments with the single and 2-node configurations. For larger deployments in datacenters, it scales easily and seamlessly to 16-nodes per cluster and even support clustering of clusters with Cluster Set, like Azure with Azure Availability Set. There will be ample demos to illustrate the simplicity, power and ease of use with reliability and security.

Concepts like switchless, RDMA, cache and storage capacity devices, and much more are also covered to ensure the extensive value propositions of the Intel server hardware which is the foundation are well understood. In addition, the single pane of management from Azure with Azure Arc and other critical services will be covered to ensure a breadth of chip to Cloud capabilities and services are part of your best “Do More with Less” solution in a time such as this.

Don’t miss this exciting workshop. Come with any question and complete it amazed.

Prerequisite:

Basic Windows Server and virtualization skills
Basic understanding of Cloud as a whole
Basic understanding of servers, networking and storage
Audience profile:

This workshop is designed for those who want to better understand Azure Stack HCI with confidence so that they can articulate the benefits and advantages of the solution. This will include licensing, use cases, design with extensibility & architecture, and even management.

Great for the following roles – architects, presales, consultants, system engineers, even deployment specialists. If you are unsure, just come. You won’t be disappointed.

Level: 200-300

Course outline:

Day 1 is design to excite and proof that Azure Stack HCI is world class and first class:

Lessons:

Demonstrate that Azure Stack HCI is Azure infused making it resilient and highly performant.
Position and articulate the powerful Edge and ROBO value propositions of a small single and 2-node.
Concepts like switchless, RDMA, cache and storage capacity devices and sizing
On-prem management with Windows Admin Center
Hands-on labs (afternoon) include the following:

1. Installing and configuring a single node Azure Stack HCI from the start

2. Scaling storage reliably and performance to 2-node

3. Working with Windows Admin Center and extensions for management

Stretch Lab: Thin provisioning conversion and Environment Checker

Day 2 focuses on Azure Hybrid services for extensibility and manageability

Lessons:

Single point of Azure management with Azure Arc
Important Azure services related to Azure Arc like Azure Automation, Azure Update Management and Azure Monitor
Great platform for end of support of Windows Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2012/R2, including SQL Server 2008/R2 and 2012
Introduction to Azure Automanage
Hands-on labs (afternoon) include the following:

1. Going beyond Windows Admin Center with Azure Arc for Multi-Cloud management

2. Managing Azure Stack HCI with Azure Portal

3. Working with Storage Migration Service and Azure Files

Stretch Lab: Working with Azure Kubernetes Service and containerisation.

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