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Hello friends, Last week at Microsoft Ignite 2024 we introduced Azure Local, cloud infrastructure for distributed locations enabled by Azure Arc. Azure Local is an exciting new chapter for adaptive…

Today, we are thrilled to announce the public preview of the Azure Migrate functionality to migrate VMs from VMware to Azure Stack HCI, a significant enhancement in our cloud migration…

Written by Cosmos Darwin, Principal Group Manager on the Azure Edge & Platform team This week is Hannover Messe 2024, the world’s biggest industrial trade fair. Microsoft is there, including…

Azure verification for VMs on Azure Stack HCI makes it possible for Azure-exclusive benefits to work outside of the cloud and in on-premises and edge environments. These benefits include Azure…

At this past Microsoft Ignite 2023, we officially announced the public preview of logical networks in Azure Portal for Azure Stack HCI. These logical networks, also called LNETs, are traditional…

Earlier in February 2024, we announced the general availability of Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI which extends the capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud to your datacenters and edge…

Written by Kerim Hanif, Senior Program Manager on the Azure Edge & Platform team     Azure Migrate is a unified platform that simplifies migration, modernization, and optimization of on-premises resources…

  Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows you to run a managed Kubernetes solution at the edge wherever you need it, with built-in support for Linux and Windows containers and cloud…

Written by Cosmos Darwin, Principal PM Manager on the Azure Edge & Platform team     Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Stack HCI version 23H2, the latest…

Azure Stack HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster solution consists of windows servers (Hyper-V), Storage Spaces Direct, and Azure-inspired SDN. All clustered servers share common configurations and resources by leveraging the…

Azure Stack HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster solution consists of windows servers (Hyper-V), Storage Spaces Direct, and Azure-inspired SDN. All clustered servers share common configurations and resources by leveraging the…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age with SDN Layer 3 gateways between sites, it was the age of no Layer…

Authored by Cosmos Darwin, Principal Group Manager, Azure Stack HCI     Today at Microsoft Ignite 2023 we’re announcing the public preview of Azure Stack HCI version 23H2. Azure Stack…

We are pleased to announce that with this release we update the AKS HCI management cluster to Kubernetes version 1.26.6. This update enables us to set the basis for supporting futures…

Effortless customer support is an enduring reason that organizations adopt public cloud. With Azure Stack Hub, Azure Stack Edge, and Azure Stack HCI, we’re extending the Azure support experience to…

We are pleased to announce that with this release we bring the AKS HCI management cluster to Kubernetes version 1.25.7. This update enables us to set the basis for supporting futures…

In the October release of AKS hybrid, we released offline download, a feature that allows you to pre-download the AKS hybrid images needed for deployment. Offline download enables installing and…

Forget about having to download the Azure Stack HCI ISO file and having to convert it to VHDX to use for Software Defined Networking (SDN) deployment, you can now directly download…

Introduction Our customers want a simple way to bring the power of the cloud into their real-world operations to transform their businesses. At Microsoft, our goal is to give businesses…

In October 2021 we announced the support of Azure Site Recovery to protect virtual machines (VM) workloads on Azure Stack HCI. Based on customer feedback, we have improved the ASR…

Introduction  Earlier in May 2022, we launched Azure Monitor HCI Insights for public preview. Based on customer feedback during the preview, we improved the performance of the workbooks and supported…

Hello everyone,    We are pleased to announce that we have extended our support for minor Kubernetes versions for a period of up to one year, commencing with v1.23.x. In order to facilitate…

We are excited to announce that AKS hybrid will now support minor Kubernetes versions for 1 year starting with v1.23.x. This was in response to feedback from customers emphasizing preference…

Azure Stack HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster solution consists of windows servers (Hyper-V), Storage Spaces Direct, and Azure-inspired SDN. All clustered servers share common configurations and resources by…

This blog post is about building, training & deploying ML workloads on-premises using Azure Stack HCI, AKS Hybrid & Azure Arc-enabled ML. The full ML lifecycle on AKS Hybrid (hosted…

Software defined networking (SDN) provides an efficient way to centrally configure and manage networks and network services such as switching, routing, and load balancing in your datacenter.  In order to…

We are happy to let you know that we have improved the registration process for the HCI cluster and the management of Arc extensions. These changes were made based on…

Install the Nginx Ingress Controller A Deployment in Kubernetes is a resource object that defines how many replicas of a Pod should be running at any given time. A Pod…

What is an Ingress Controller  Kubernetes Ingress is a resource object in the Kubernetes API that provides a way to manage external access to services within a Kubernetes cluster. In…

Hello everyone,   This a release everyone running AKS on Azure Stack HCI or Windows Server will appreciate - it is full of quality improvements for long-running deployments.  We are…

Hello everyone,   I'm so excited to share our first release of 2023!  This release is jam-packed with new pre-checks before install, improvements to Windows Admin Center flows, and we…

Windows Admin Center (WAC) version 2211 is now generally available! In this release, we've added new tools for Azure Stack HCI such as the GPU partitioning tool, Azure Arc tool,…

Back in 2019 when Azure launched the first GPU-partitioned (GPU-P) virtual machine (VM) offering in the public cloud, our customers loved it and asked for a similar offering on the…

Hello everyone,   The last release for 2022 is now available!  This is a combination October/November release with a pile of new previews and tools to try out over the…

We’re excited to announce the release of Network HUD - A new feature that proactively identifies and remediates operational networking issues on Azure Stack HCI. Network HUD is available in the November…

Introduction An edge deployment model commonly constitutes many smaller, independently managed environments where the total cost of ownership needs to be optimized. In today's configurations, infrastructure runs on the same…

Network security is a top concern for organizations today. We are faced with increasing breaches, threats, and cyber risk. With Azure Stack HCI 21H2, you can define granular segmentation for…

To secure their server infrastructure customers often employ local or Active Directory based Group Policies which are applied uniformly to all domain joined machines as soon as the machine joins…

A number of organizations adopting microservices architectures have looked to service meshes as one of the tools that help these organizations in enforcing enterprise-wide policies and rules for traffic, security,…