If we look at Azure Stack and compare it to Azure, the huge difference is that Azure Stack is based on containers with hundreds and thousands of servers running a kind of Windows Server with some kind of Hyper-V, specially designed for Azure data centers. As Azure Stack works starting with four servers and as first step moves to 12 servers, there needs to be a kind of difference in the underlying technology. Microsoft always talks of a cloud inspired infrastructure with Azure Stack. This means the technology is somehow similar to Azure, but it is only similar and not the same.
In this chapter, we will talk about the technical basis of Azure Stack as it makes it easier for you to troubleshoot an environment that you understand from the technical perspective. Azure Stack is running based on Windows Server 2016 and the Hyper-V technology.
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