What is Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack? Karsten Bott @azurestack_guy Advisory Cloud Platform Specialist AzureStack GLOBAL SPONSORS
Why Hybrid Cloud?
The New Digital Customer Rising and continuously changing expectations around experiences Any Always available Anywhere Real-time updates Any Intelligent time interactions Intelligent applications are the new face of business
The New Digital Customer Rising and continuously changing expectations around experiences Always available Real-time updates Intelligent interactions Intelligent applications are the new face of business
Why Microsoft?
Microsoft Azure cloud on a global scale 42 datacenter regions More than AWS and Google Cloud combined New Data Centers coming in Australia, France and South Africa https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/
Developing a Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Strategy Legacy IT New IT Reality Implementation Options Target Cloud Platform Physical Servers and Virtual Machines Onpremises, non-cloud Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud Private Cloud Retire/Keep
Why Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack?
Dell EMC & Microsoft: A Heritage of Cloud Partnership Dell EMC Ready Bundles For Virtualization Private Cloud for Microsoft FAST TRACK Dell EMC Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud System CPS Premium Private Cloud Dell EMC CPS Standard Hybrid Cloud System Dell EMC: The first and only Microsoft partner to offer all these cloud solutions
Dell EMC Engineered for Success Overall test status Component test status Feature test status Bug list Burn down Designed for resiliency & tested at scale with complete component lifecycle management
Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack
Azure Stack is new Jeffrey Snover Technical Fellow Microsoft Azure Stack Architect
A quick Is Is NOT breakdown Azure Stack IS An application focused Hybrid Cloud Platform Cloud equivalent of a SAN delivering selfservice IaaS, PaaS, & cloud solutions Azure Stack is NOT A virtualization-replacement play A DIY infrastructure sandbox Required to maintain consistency with Azure Public Dependent on organizational and process transformation A static system that you can deploy and forget A best of luck effort
One Fully-engineered Platform for All Cloud Apps Hybrid cloud platform Designed, delivered, supported, and sustained as one Developer and IT ops services Software Hardware Platform-as-a-service Infrastructure-as-a-service Support Services Modernize your business with automated IT service delivery for all apps Innovate with cloud-native apps to digitally transform your business Accelerate Microsoft Azure Stack adoption with confidence
Broker Azure Services with Confidence Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack Self-service consumption Azure & Azure Stack service definition PaaS IaaS VM encryption and network security controls Role-based access control IT Ops Flexible service delivery Workload deployment across multiple regions Backup & restore services Fully engineered hybrid cloud platform eases deployment and management * Some components will be in Preview at Azure Stack GA
Manage with a Consistent Experience Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack Portal PowerShell DevOps tools Azure Resource Manager Azure IaaS Azure PaaS Compute Network Storage App Service Service Fabric* Cloud-inspired infrastructure Microsoft Azure Stack Behind the firewall Hosted Developers One Azure ecosystem Unified app development Azure services in your datacenter IT Portal PowerShell DevOps tools Azure Resource Manager IaaS PaaS Cloud infrastructure Microsoft Azure Public
Empower Developers with Azure tools Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack Azure Stack Development Tools Developer Self-service portal and more! The choice is yours
Dell EMC Ready System for Microsoft Azure Stack Key design principles Software Hardware Integrated system Support Services Closed system Hyper-converged Architecture, hardware, and topology Deployment, configuration, provisioning Validation Monitoring, diagnostics Scale out building blocks Security and privacy Business continuity Patching and updating Field replacement of parts Azure consistent management No System Center
Services for your entire cloud journey Scale on multiple fronts with Azure Stack Example: Global enterprise or service provider Resource management Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Portal /Azure Resource Manager 1 2 One cloud endpoint Multiple Single regions (future) 3 Multiple Single scale unit units per region (future) *Initially one region and one scale unit per region, future will support multiples
Dell EMC Azure Stack Configurations HCI node configuration options at GA Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 Configurations Cores Memory Cache Storage (RAW) 4 Node 96-192 1.5TB 3TB 23 TB 46 TB 160 TB 400 TB 8 Node 192-384 3TB 6TB 46 TB 92 TB 320 TB 800 TB 12 Node 288-576 4.6TB 7.2TB 68 TB 138 TB 320 TB 1200 TB
Hyper-converged scale units MINIMUM Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 MAXIMUM 12 Nodes The current available sizing is in scale units of 4, 8, 12 nodes. Customers should plan to purchase for 12 months of resources to meet their workload needs as upgrades are not supported at GA. 4 Nodes 8 Nodes Future upgrades of the Dell EMC Azure Stack must be done in homogenous 4 node increments. Upgrades will be supported once Microsoft code is available and validated by Dell EMC Engineering. The fundamental building block for Azure Stack
Embedded Deployment & Support Services Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack Deploy Dell EMC rack integration At Merge Center or on site Dell EMC software integration Rapidly integrate & configure into your IT environment Support ProSupport Plus & ProSupport for Software Platform-level support covering the hardware, OS, hypervisor, Azure Stack, and Azure Resource Manager Ensure consistent, accurate results to reduce operational risk
One-contact Support Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack Collaborative support Support across the entire hybrid cloud platform
Azure IaaS On-premises: Beyond Traditional Virtualization Services will be available at GA Additional Azure services delivered through frequent updates to Azure Stack
Azure PaaS Available On-premises Fully-managed platforms for high productivity development Azure Service Fabric and Azure Container Service will be available. Other services will be available at GA. We will deliver additional Azure services through frequent updates to Azure Stack.
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Single node dev/test for Microsoft Azure Stack Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 Azure Stack admin & tenant experiences The Dell EMC single-node Azure Stack is open to all customers. It will continue to be offered through the life of the program to provide customers a way to purchase a Azure Stack for the purposes of development and testing. It is not intended for use with production workloads. DevOps/Infrastructure-as-Code with ARM templates Try Web/Service Fabric services and others coming at GA Visual Studio and PowerShell experience Infrastructure-as-a-Service Get started today with Azure Stack for PoCs and dev/test
Single-Node Dev/Test Configuration Options Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 Starter Edition Cloud Operator Experience Infrastructure Management Tenant IaaS Experience Cores: 8C, 16T Memory: 96GB SSD: 3 x 480GB SATA HDD: 6 x 1TB SATA PaaS Edition Deploy PaaS Resource Providers DevOps Tool Integration Prototype ARM Templates Cores: 10C, 20T Memory: 192GB SSD: 3 x 480GB SATA HDD: 6 x 1TB SATA Developer Edition Develop with PaaS Services Apply DevOps Practices Prototype Applications Cores: 12C, 24T Memory: 384GB SSD: 3 x 480GB SATA HDD: 6 x 1TB SATA
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