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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

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Building Hybrid Clouds with Azure Stack

Overview of this book

Azure Stack is all about creating fewer gaps between on-premise and public cloud application deployment. Azure Stack is the logical progression of Microsoft Cloud Services to create a true hybrid cloud-ready application. This book provides an introduction to Azure Stack and the cloud-first approach. Starting with an introduction to the architecture of Azure Stack, the book will help you plan and deploy your Azure Stack. Next, you will learn about the network and storage options in Azure Stack and you'll create your own private cloud solution. Finally, you will understand how to integrate public cloud using the third-party resource provider. After reading the book, you will have a good understanding of the end-to-end process of designing, offering, and supporting cloud solutions for enterprises or service providers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Sizing Azure Stack


Now that all offerings have been defined, we can go one step ahead: the sizing of the environment.

As you know already, Azure Stack is not just a software solution; it will be delivered as an integrated system. This means that it consists of hardware and the appropriate software on top. There are numerous reasons for that. If you go directly with the Public Cloud Azure offering, you do not have to care about the underlying hardware. As Azure Stack is nothing more than bringing Azure to your data center, this is simply the same. For general availability, we will have the following OEMs that offer Azure Stack:

  • Dell EMC
  • HP Enterprise
  • Lenovo
  • After GA, additional hardware vendors (like Cisco and others) will soon join. Their offerings nearly look the same; only some minor things such as disk size will be different.

This integrated system is, to be honest, a hyper-converged system, which means that Hyper-V nodes and storage nodes are the same physical hardware. It does not have dedicated...