Azure Stack HCI
Run your production workloads and cloud-native apps anywhere
Unify resource management with a flexible cloud-connected architecture
Stay always up to date with the latest Azure security, performance, and capabilities with Azure Arc–enabled Azure Stack HCI. Discover, monitor, and manage the Azure Stack HCI hosts as well as the virtual machines (VMs) and containers running on them from within the Azure portal.
Modernize your edge computing environments
Read a third-party review on the benefits of using Azure Stack HCI on Intel technology for your edge environments, including the performance level you could achieve for your deployment.
Integration with Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc to run cloud-native apps on premises
Small form factor Azure Stack HCI nodes for intelligent edge and remote- or branch-office solutions
Performance-optimization for managing on-premises workloads
Flexible, large scale VDI platform and support for Azure Virtual Desktop on premises
Extend your business to the cloud with an Azure hybrid solution
Extend your business to the cloud and manage Azure Stack HCI hosts, virtual machines (VMs), and Azure resources side by side in the Azure portal. Monitor multiple clusters, manage extensions and Azure Policies, and use self-service VMs with Azure Arc–enabled nodes. Get regular and consistent feature and security updates and unified billing with your Azure Stack HCI subscription, using either your Premier or Azure support plan.
Meet regulatory and connectivity needs with flexibility
Azure Arc–enabled Azure Stack HCI helps you consolidate virtualized workloads and gain cloud efficiencies when data needs to remain on premises for legal or privacy reasons. For compliance with end-of-life workloads, get Windows Server 2008/R2, SQL Server 2008/R2, Windows Server 2012/R2, and SQL Server 2012 extended security updates at no extra cost when migrating to Azure Stack HCI.
Simplify management with familiar tools
Azure Arc–enabled Azure Stack HCI integrates with your environments and popular third-party solutions with familiar management tools. Use Windows Admin Center with a built-in deployment GUI to leverage your existing Windows Server and Hyper-V skills to build your infrastructure. Automate completely scriptable management tasks using the popular cross-platform Windows PowerShell framework.
Deploy with flexible options
Select the deployment scenario that's best for your environment, such as an appliance-like experience, a validated node solution from one of more than 25 hardware partners, or repurposed hardware. Manage your solution using Azure or familiar management tools and choose from a wide selection of utility software options within the enhanced ISV ecosystem. Explore deployment service offerings from Azure Stack HCI validated SI partners
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Discover validated HCI solutions for Azure Arc–enabled Azure Stack HCI
Get up and running quickly and reliably with validated Azure Stack HCI solutions including integrated systems and validated node solutions. They're available from a range of hardware partners that offer solutions on industry-standard x86 hardware with service and support. Explore a wide variety of hardware solutions from select partners to reduce your acquisition costs. Leverage the Microsoft ISV ecosystem to maximize the value of your hyperconverged infrastructure solution. Enhance security with Secured-core server with Azure Stack HCI integrated systems and simplify the planning of your new solutions with the Azure Stack HCI sizer tool.
Comprehensive security and compliance, built in
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Microsoft invests more than USD 1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.
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We employ more than 3,500 security experts dedicated to data security and privacy.
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Azure has more certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.
Flexible pricing and use cases with zero cost
Purchase an Azure subscription and activate only the cores you need for your hyperconverged infrastructure deployment ($10 per physical core, per month). For Windows Server Datacenter, customers with Software Assurance get Azure Stack HCI at no additional cost.
Get started with an Azure free account
Start free. Get $200 credit to use within 30 days. While you have your credit, get free amounts of many of our most popular services, plus free amounts of 40+ other services that are always free.
After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.
After 12 months, you’ll keep getting 40+ always-free services—and still pay only for what you use beyond your free monthly amounts.
Trusted by companies of all sizes
Sven Vollbehr, Head of Digital Manufacturing, SKF Group"We're an established industrial giant on our way to do something that even the other digital companies are not yet able to do. And we're having such good success with the help of Microsoft bringing that cloud capability on the edge."
Benny Westaedt, Chief Information Officer Van Havermaet"Because I no longer need to fix current problems with old technology, I can focus on solving the business problems of tomorrow. We use Azure Stack HCI to handle our basic infrastructure needs so we can focus on innovation."
Jason Higgins, Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Transport for Greater Manchester"We're solving problems before they are known to end users, rather than dealing with them as they arise. That's a depth to our alerting capabilities that we didn't have before."
James Mikolajek, IT Client Services Administrator, Colorado State University College of Business"Today, I know our infrastructure is performing well when we aren't inundated with system alerts. Azure Stack HCI has definitely made my job a lot easier, which I really appreciate."
Maxime Legas, Chief Information Officer, Xelya"Through Azure Stack HCI, we have a way to provide the same technology that a large-scale company can afford but deliver it to our small and medium-sized customers at a cost they can support."
Azure Stack HCI resources and documentation
Get started with learning resources
- Azure Arc-enabled Infrastructure on Intel white paper
- Secure your hybrid cloud with Intel white paper
- Reimagine Retail with Hybrid Cloud Solutions white paper
- IDC Spotlight white paper
- Azure Stack HCI 2021 feature update white paper
- Datacenter modernization white paper
- Five hybrid cloud use cases white paper
- Hybrid cloud essentials e-book
- ESG analyst report
- Enterprise Strategy Group analyst report
- Learn what customers are doing with Azure Stack HCI
Explore technical resources
- Technical documentation
- Evaluation guide
- Azure Stack HCI foundations learning path
- Operate and maintain Azure Stack HCI learning path
- Implement Datacenter Firewall and Software Load Balancer on Azure Stack HCI learning module
- Plan for and deploy SDN infrastructure on Azure Stack HCI learning module
- Reference architecture: stretched clusters for disaster recovery
- Reference architecture: switchless interconnect and lightweight quorum for remote office/branch office
- Disaster recovery with stretch clustering video
- Product tour of Azure Stack HCI using Windows Admin Center
- Azure Stack HCI sizer tool
AKS resources and documentation
Frequently asked questions about Azure Stack HCI
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The minimum is now one node, which is ideal for a remote office or branch office. The maximum is 16 nodes per single cluster.
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You'll get extended security updates at no cost when you migrate your Windows Server 2008/R2, SQL Server 2008/R2, Windows Server 2012/R2 and SQL Server 2012 workloads to Azure Stack HCI.
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No, there are no virtualization rights included with the host subscription. Customers running Windows VMs on this hyperconverged infrastructure solution need to procure an appropriate license.
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You'll find those solutions in the Azure Stack HCI catalog.