Azure Stack HCI documentation

About Azure Stack HCI

Overview

• What is Azure Stack HCI?

What's new

• What's new in Azure Stack HCI, version 22H2?

Get started

• Create an Azure Stack HCI cluster

Deploy Azure Stack HCI

Deploy

• 1. Deploy the Azure Stack HCI OS
• 2. Create a cluster
• 3. Register with Azure
• 4. Validate a cluster

Tutorial

• Create a VM-based lab for Azure Stack HCI

Manage storage

How-To Guide

• Replace drives
• Use the CSV cache
• Manage SMB Multichannel
• Storage thin provisioning
• Adjustable storage repair speed

Manage volumes

How-To Guide

• Create volumes
• Create stretched volumes
• Protect volumes
• Manage volumes

Manage the cluster

How-To Guide

• Manage the cluster with Windows Admin Center
• Add or remove servers
• Take a server offline for maintenance
• Monitor the cluster
• Update the cluster
• Change languages

Azure Stack HCI concepts

Concept

• Stretched clusters
• Billing
• Firewall requirements
• Updates and upgrades
• Choose drives
• Plan volumes
• Fault tolerance and storage efficiency
• Security considerations

Manage VMs

How-To Guide

• Manage VMs with Windows Admin Center
• Manage VMs with PowerShell
• Set up VM affinity rules
• VM load balancing
• Use GPUs with clustered VMs

Connect to Azure

How-To Guide

• Register cluster with Azure
• Manage cluster registration with Azure
• Register Windows Admin Center with Azure

Software Defined Networking

Overview

• Software Defined Networking (SDN) overview
• Plan SDN infrastructure
• Network Controller overview
• Plan Network Controller
• Datacenter Firewall overview

How-To Guide

• Deploy an SDN infrastructure