(upbeat music)
- Hi everyone I'm Bernardo Caldas,
with the Azure Edge and platform team.
So far at this event,
you've heard about how you can use Azure Arc
to run Azure data services, build cumulative applications
with Azure app services
and manage operations and security on any infrastructure.
Next we're going to discuss how you can use Azure Stack
along with Azure to modernize your data center
and intelligent edge.
As I have conversations with many of you
and ask what's top of mind, I hear some common themes.
You want to manage your infrastructure at scale,
across distributed environments
while ensuring security and compliance.
You want to manage your cloud
and on-premises infrastructure in a consistent way
leveraging your existing tools and skillset.
You want to bridge your own premises infrastructure
with the cloud in a cost-effective way.
And you want you to reduce complexity
with fewer moving parts
while still having access to the key features you need
to run your business.
You can rely on Azure Stack HCI,
along with Azure Arc to meet these needs
and achieve more control, improve agility
and better security at a lower cost.
Azure Stack HCI is a hybrid infrastructure
delivered as an Azure service.
This means less work for you
because Azure Arc is already built in.
Simply register Azure Stack HCI with Azure
and you're all set, no agents or scripts required.
Once you register Azure Stack HCI
it appears as a resource in Azure,
such that you can manage, monitor, secure, assign policy
and more, just like you would any other resource in Azure.
Let me invite Jeff Woolsey to show you how Azure Stack HCI
integrates with Azure and how you can manage at scale
and automate your security and governance, Jeff.
- [Jeff] Thanks Bernardo.
Let's get started here in the Azure portal.
You can see in the recent resource list
that I have several Azure Stack HCI clusters
including some in Atlanta, Boston, Texas
and a brand new Azure Stack HCI cluster in Seattle
called AltaylHCI cluster.
Clicking on this cluster, you can see this is a four node
Dell PowerEdge 630 solution.
Let's click on the first node of this cluster.
If I want it to add capabilities to this specific node
I can do that here.
You can add capabilities like update management logs,
monitoring insights, policy, security and more.
However, in this case, I'd like to add capabilities
to the entire cluster.
Better yet, I want every node in the cluster
to have all the same capabilities
and ensure there's no configuration drift.
Let me show you just how easy this is
with Azure and Azure Arc.
Let's go back to the full cluster
and add capabilities to the entire cluster.
All I need to do is click on capabilities
and click below on logs.
Now I enter my Azure workspace information, click add
and Azure Arc will configure every single node
in this cluster, to collect logs, to support monitoring
and other insights.
I don't need to log into every node
to install or manage agents.
Azure Arc handles all of this
and even monitors for configuration drift.
If I need more capacity
and decide to add another node to the cluster in the future
Azure Arc will automatically add
and configure the new node to match the configuration
of the existing cluster.
This is game-changing hybrid cloud management.
Now let's type in monitor in the Azure portal
and look at the rich set of Azure monitoring services
and insights available.
Notice here in the left-hand column, there are insights
for virtual machines, storage accounts SQL
and the new option for Azure Stack HCIs right here.
Clicking on this, you can see four clusters
in Atlanta, Boston, Texas and Seattle.
Now my Altayl cluster is new
so there's nothing running on it yet.
You can see all these clusters
including my three node cluster in Atlanta are all healthy.
If I wanna view my VMs click on virtual machines
and I can see all my virtual machines
and all my selected clusters, even though they're running
in four different cities.
If I wanna view overall storage health
and performance, click on storage,
and you can see I have a total of 12 volumes,
64 total drives all the drives are healthy
their size and their usage.
If I wanna drill into a specific volume
in a specific cluster like this one in Atlanta
I can see IOPS information, trending info, throughput info
and all of this in the Azure portal.
If I wanna view overall cluster performance
I can see CPU usage, volume latency, IOPS throughput
and compare this with the other stack HCI solutions
in one view.
I hope this quick demo shows you what you can achieve
with Azure, Azure Arc
and Azure Stack HCI working together
to give you the best in manageability
and visibility for your overall estate.
back to you Bernardo.
- Thanks, Jeff.
As you can see,
Azure Stack HCI automatically gives you visibility
to all your resources through the Azure portal.
The built-in integration with Azure
and Azure Arc automates things like log collection,
governance, policy, and health insights,
so you can focus on delivering customer value.
One of the ways you deliver value to your customers
is through cloud native applications.
Now you can deliver app innovation at the edge
with Azure Kubernetes service.
With AKS on Azure Stack HCI,
you can rely on easy choose workflows.
So you and your team can get up and running quickly.
In less than an hour,
your Azure Stack HCI clusters will be ready
to host your cloud- native apps.
Under the hood,
the deployment takes care of everything that is required
to bring up Kubernetes and run applications.
This includes core Kubernetes, container runtime,
networking, storage, security
and operators to manage the underlying infrastructure.
Scaling the cluster up or down by adding or removing nodes
or deploying cluster updates are equally quick and easy.
AKS on Azure Stack HCI is the best platform
for running .NETCore and .NET framework applications.
Whether your applications are based on Linux or windows.
The infrastructure required to run your container
is included in the solution
and fully supported by Microsoft.
For windows containers,
AKS offers an industry leading solution
with advanced features like group managed service accounts,
GMSA, for non domain join hosts,
active directory integration
and windows admin center based application deployment,
migration and management.
You can modernize your windows apps more easily
than ever before with AKS on Azure Stack HCI.
Keeping your infrastructure security
is very important to us.
AKS on Azure Stack HCI is always up to date
just like any other Azure service,
security updates for the entire solution
including core Kubernetes platform, network
and storage drivers, Linux and Windows container hosts
and a other binaries are delivered by Microsoft.
We also support hardened VM images,
single sign-on with active directory, encryption,
certificate management,
and integration with Azure security center.
These are just a few examples to illustrate our commitment
to the security of your infrastructure
in cloud native apps.
Azure Stack HCI is a complete solution
to deploy cloud native applications
in the Azure Arc enabled services we shared with you
at this event.
And you can scale Azure Stack HCI down two nodes at the edge
and remote branch locations.
So you can have your VMs containers
and Azure Arc enabled services
running on small form factors with high availability.
At the other end of this scale
you can run mission critical scale up SQL server
on Azure Stack HCI
and achieve performance that is six times faster
than the leading HCI solution in the market today.
When it comes to modernizing your data center
you can consolidate your legacy servers
and storage devices and reduce power
and data center footprint with a future proof design.
Let's take a closer look.
It starts with a rich hardware ecosystem
of over 250 partner solutions that have been tested
and validated to ensure an optimized and supported solution.
Next, we have the Azure Stack HCI operating system.
Here, we have combined 25 years of experience delivering
on premises windows server, along with Azure technology
from our hyperscale public cloud
to deliver a hyper-converged solution
that is uniquely optimized for hybrid scenarios.
Here you can run Linux and Windows virtualized apps
like your customer LOB apps
or SQL server SharePoint exchange.
This covers your existing apps.
With AKS on Azure Stack HCI, we have you covered
for the new cloud native applications you're writing.
This is Kubernetes conformance
so when your dev update their apps,
these will get pushed through all your AKS
on Azure Stack HCI endpoints.
You can run Azure Arc enabled data services
which is always current, provides elastic scale
and unified management,
As well as any other arc enabled service,
such as app services, machine learning
and more to come.
This empowers your developers to run traditional apps
or cloud native apps on this infrastructure
using a variety of frameworks.
All fully integrated with the Azure Arc control plane.
If you're looking to accelerate time to value,
Azure Stack HCI integrated systems
simplify your deployment journey.
As you browse our hardware catalog
you can find sever integrated system options
from your favorite OEMs.
This solutions come pre-installed
with Azure Stack HCI operating system
and pre-configured with our best security.
And later this year, Azure Stack HCI integrated systems
will be available with secured core server.
Secured core servers maximize hardware firmware
in OS capabilities to help protect your infrastructure
against current and future threats.
This safeguards create a platform with added security
for critical applications and data used on the server.
Secured core functionality spins hardware root of trust
for more protection and virtualization based security.
With Azure Stack HCI integrated systems
our OEM partners enabled these security features
right out of the box.
Simplified a configuration experience
and giving you our best service security.
And when you combine Azure Stack HCI secured core server
with third generation Intel Xeon, scalable processors
you get higher workload performance
designed for flexibility at scale,
new cryptographic acceleration
and advanced security capabilities.
This is industry leading security
brought to you by Intel and Microsoft.
In terms of consolidation, power
and performance, our customers
and independent reviewers speak for themselves.
Let me just share a few examples with you.
Fasthosts went from 11 racks of servers to two racks.
Swift-Train saved about 70% of their previous energy costs
through consolidation.
StorageReview.com, declared that Azure Stack HCI
was the fastest they've seen in a mid-market four node,
HCI cluster
And there is more.
Bradley Law Firm is a national distributed law firm
in the US.
They chose a data on solution
and are enjoying the built-in hybrid capabilities
of Azure Stack HCI, while maintaining their costs
and performance targets.
Yara is working on environmental solutions
to protect the world's agriculture, natural resources
and the environment.
They have chosen Lenovo Azure Stack HCI solutions
for their 28 manufacturing sites.
For their edge environments,
they are using a pair of the Lenovo MX1020s.
They liked the Azure integration with a small form factor
and high availability.
For their larger sites, they chose the MX3520,
which can scale up to dozens of cores,
over a terabyte of memory with 14 hot swap base
for plenty of flash storage.
These are just a few examples
of our customers using Azure Stack HCI solutions.
If you'd like to learn more about Azure Stack HCI solutions,
go to aka.ms/azurestackhci.
You can learn more about the product, sign up for a trial
and easily find harbor solutions
optimized for branch office
and edge, enterprise virtualization, Kubernetes and more.
To summarize what you've heard today.
Azure is committed to delivering hybrid value
to your platforms on premises and at the edge
including infrastructure for VMs
and containers with Kubernetes, integrated control plane
and services.
With Azure Stack HCI hybrid is built in not boarded on.
For those of you needing to modernize agent servers
and storage, you can use Azure Stack HCI
to seamlessly extend your data center
and edge locations to the cloud,
connecting to Azure services.
And for those of you building new cloud native apps
AKS on Azure Stack HCI takes our Poplar Kubernetes service
and makes it available to you on premises,
delivering Azure consistency,
a familiar Azure experience, ease of use
and security for your containerized applications.
You can developed new cloud native applications
on AKS in Azure
and deploy them unchanged on premises or vice versa.