Azure Stack Development Toolkit (Azure Stack single node PoC) is for testing and development purposes. It can be downloaded from http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack.
After downloading the ZIP file, it needs to be extracted and will provide you the Azure-Stack VHDX (CloudBuilder.vhdx
). This is the main basis for all Azure Stack, you will have to boot it from an existing Hyper-V environment.
The installation will be split in three main steps:
- Downloading Azure Stack tools
- Preparation for booting into the
CloudBuilder.vhdx
- Installation Azure Stack natively within the
CloudBuilder.vhdx
Before starting the deployment, we will need to prepare the host. This will be done with the following PowerShell commands. It will download the necessary PowerShell scripts from GitHub:
# Variables $Uri = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/AzureStack- Tools/master/Deployment/' $LocalPath = 'c:\AzureStack_SupportFiles' # Create...