• Bring a cloud centric operating model to on-premises. Take advantage of cloud and on-premises resources working together and natively monitor, secure, and back up to the cloud.
• A flexible and broad ecosystem to build a solution that best meets business needs.
• Benefit from the latest hypervisor and built-in software defined storage and networking (SDN).
• Host container-based deployments, which increases workload density and resource usage efficiency.
• Data center consolidation and modernization opportunities.

Overview Workshop 1-day

• Azure Stack HCI fundamentals.
• Azure Stack HCI operating system
• Scale-out storage
• SDN-based virtualized networking
• Integration with Azure Arc
• Azure Arc enabled servers, Kubernetes, and data services
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Azure Stack HCI
• Azure Stack HCI validated hardware from OEM partners.
• Centralized cloud management services, like Windows Admin Center, Azure Portal, Cloud Insights.
• Learn about Azure Cost and licensing requirements.
• Capture business requirements.
• Define use case scenario.

Workload assessment 1-day

• Gather technical requirements for performance, availability, connectivity, and storage.
• Gather application requirements.
• Gather operational requirements.

Hybrid use case deep dive 1-day

• Understand current IT estate.
• Detailed overview and integration with Azure Hybrid Services (Azure Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, Azure Update Management, Azure File Sync, …)
• Hands-on labs.
• Define pilot scope.

Deliverables

• Technical and financial justification for pilot.
• High-level use case design.
• Hands-on scenarios