Azure Stack HCI Integration: 4-Wk Implementation
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The newest member of the Azure Stack Family, Azure Stack HCI brings enterprise scale and flexibility to the Azure hybrid portfolio. Based on Hyper-V and hardware solutions from an ecosystem of best in class providers, Azure Stack HCI enables customers to host workloads locally to their DC or branch/edge while taking advantage of native Azure integrations such as Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). WWT’s Azure Stack HCI services build on the foundation Microsoft provides and incorporates our experience and third-party best in class partner solutions to provide a comprehensive pathway to a successful implementation.
Use Cases:
Branch and Edge Solutions - When scale and high availability are required at the branch or edge location, Azure Stack HCI provides a lightweight, but robust solution: Compute, networking, and storage in a singular solution, all managed by Azure.
Scalable, Enterprise Hybrid Cloud - Azure Stack HCI provides an enterprise grade, highly scalable, and highly performant HCI environment enabled with best of breed cloud solutions from Azure.
Cloud Managed Kubernetes - Azure Kubernetes Service provides a best of breed managed Kubernetes offering and Azure Stack HCI makes it available anywhere!
Approach:
As a Microsoft Gold Partner, WWT has a team of Microsoft certified experts ready to deliver production ready Azure Stack Hub systems. The process is divided into three phases: Discover, Design & Deploy.
Discover
- Use Case Definition
- Environment Readiness
Design
- Planning & Sizing
- Hardware Selection and Procurement
Deploy
- Initial Configuration and Integration
- Pre-Operations Readiness and Configuration
- Enable Azure Integrated Services