Dell EMC's enhancements to its Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI offers should please partners.

Lynn Haber

May 22, 2019

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Dell EMC on Wednesday announced enhancements to Microsoft’s Azure Stack HCI and Azure Stack portfolios.

Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is a hyperconverged Windows Server 2019 cluster that uses validated hardware to run virtualized workloads on premises, optionally connecting to Azure services for cloud-based backup, site recovery and more. It’s available from a range of Microsoft hardware partners. Azure Stack is an extension of Azure that provides a way to run applications on premises.

Wednesday’s announcement includes: the addition of Windows Server 2019 to all 15 configurations under WSSD; the availability of Azure Stack on the Dell EMC PowerEdge R840 platform; and a metered usage consumption model for Azure Stack infrastructure with Flex on Demand from Dell Financial Services.

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Dell EMC’s Ray Balli

The news came out of Microsoft’s Virtual Windows Server Summit.

Dell EMC has a long history of co-engineering with Microsoft and these new enhancements further strengthen our joint portfolio across hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid cloud solutions,” Ray Balli, product marketing consultant, HCI, Dell EMC wrote in a blog. “By working together to deliver innovative services faster and more frequently, we can become a real partner of change for our customers in this digital transformation era.”

This new offering leverages the Windows Server Datacenter license to provide software defined storage, using Hyper-V virtualization down to the storage level. These multinode clusters provide cost-effective volumes with high performance and low latency, using common management tools. In addition to the vendor’s previous 15 use case-driven configurations under WSSD, Dell EMC has added:

  • Windows Server 2019 to all 15 configurations.

  • The newly released storage dense PowerEdge R740xd2 as a new chassis platform, allowing for more demanding workloads.

  • QuickStart — a four-node, two-switch configuration, an end-to-end high availability solution.

  • Dell EMC PowerSwitch 25GbE networking for increased throughput.

  • A new upgrade service, taking customers from existing Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node architectures to Windows Server 2019 with continued support entitlement.

  • Systems management by unifying and automating management capabilities for modern infrastructures with the OpenManage Integration for Windows Admin Center console.

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Content Director Lynn Haber follows channel news from partners, vendors, distributors and industry watchers. If I miss some coverage, don’t hesitate to email me and pass it along. Always up for chatting with partners. Say hi if you see me at a conference!

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