Introducing the new Azure Stack HCI for your hybrid cloud
Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is a powerful new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster solution for hybrid cloud environments. The new Azure Stack HCI OS, delivered as an Azure service, enables you to run virtualized workloads on Microsoft-certified Supermicro HCI hardware solutions, on-premises in your control, while gaining the Azure Cloud efficiency and capability.
Benefits of the new Azure Stack HCI Supermicro Solutions
- Microsoft-certified hardware solution from Supermicro
- Industry-leading performance
- Quality delivered by pre-validation and optimization
- High availability and easy to scale out from 2 nodes up to 16 nodes in a cluster
- Flexibility options of Intel and AMD platforms, All-flash and Hybrid, with multiple form factors, drive combinations, and network bandwidths to choose from
- Native Azure Hybrid capabilities
- Delivered as an Azure Service, always up to date with latest security and features
- Manage your on-premise HCI cluster from Azure Portal
- Natively integrated with Azure services such as Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, and Azure Security Center
- Price-performance of HCI
- Flexible per core subscription model for cost optimization
- No upfront license cost for Azure Stack HCI OS
- Note: Customers running Windows Server VMs on Azure Stack HCI need to procure an appropriate license. Windows Server 2022/2019 license, or Windows Server subscription will be required. Please refer to the following link for more details about the license options:
License Windows Server VMs on Azure Stack HCI
- Note: Customers running Windows Server VMs on Azure Stack HCI need to procure an appropriate license. Windows Server 2022/2019 license, or Windows Server subscription will be required. Please refer to the following link for more details about the license options:
- Easy to manage with no learning curve
- Easy to deploy and manage using both GUI and scripts
- Integrate into your existing IT environment
- Familiarity with existing virtualization and storage concepts and skills
When to use the new Azure Stack HCI*
* Refer to technical use case briefs for more details
Intel-based Solution
Supermicro Intel-based Hardware solutions for Azure Stack HCI are designed to deliver the highest performance, flexibility, scalability and serviceability to demanding IT environments, and optimized for mission-critical enterprise workloads.
The Supermicro solution is pre-validated/certified and optimized for running an Azure Stack HCI cluster, starting from 2 server nodes and support up to 16 nodes in a cluster. Each server node in the cluster is equipped with latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, DDR4 memory, NVMe as caching devices, with flexible options of different drive combinations including All-NVMe, NVMe+HDD, NVMe+SSD, NVMe+SSD+HDD, and RDMA enabled high-speed networks.
We currently offer the following Microsoft certified Azure Stack HCI solutions SKUs based on Supermicro Mainstream, Ultra, BigTwin and 1U 12 Bay Drawer platforms:
| Best For | High-density 4-node HCI deployment scenario for balanced workloads |
| Server SKU | SYS-220BT-HNC8R |
| Profile | All-flash, Hybrid |
| Form Factor | 2U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 4-16 (1-4 systems) |
| Processors | Dual 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors |
| Memory | 128GB to 4TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe, SSD + HDD |
| Networks | Up to 100GbE RoCE RDMA |
| Best For | Workloads for small footprint HCI deployment in limited spaces |
| Server SKU | SYS-510P-MR |
| Profile | All-flash |
| Form Factor | 1U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-4 |
| Processors | Single 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor |
| Memory | 64GB to 256GB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe, SSD SATA |
| Networks | 25GbE RoCE RDMA |
| Best For | Flexible and scalable HCI for high-performance or balanced workloads |
| Server SKU | SYS-120U-TNR |
| Profile | All-flash |
| Form Factor | 1U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-16 |
| Processors | Dual 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors |
| Memory | 128GB to 4TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe + SSD |
| Networks | 25GbE (Up to 100GbE) RoCE RDMA |
| Best For | High-performance compute and high-speed storage |
| Profile | All-flash NVMe |
| Form Factor | 1U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-16 |
| Processors | Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors |
| Memory | 128GB to 6TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe |
| Networks | Up to 100GbE RoCE DRMA |
| Best For | Work loads with balanced performance in a cost-optimized two-node cluster |
| Profile | All-flash, Hybrid |
| Form Factor | 1U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-4 |
| Processors | Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors |
| Memory | 128GB to 6TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe +SSD, NVMe + SSD + HDD |
| Networks | Up to 40GbE RoCE RDMA |
| Best For | High-performance mission critical workloads with large storage capacity |
| Profile | All-flash NVMe |
| Form Factor | 2U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-4 |
| Processors | Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors |
| Memory | 128GB to 6TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe |
| Networks | Up to 100GbE RoCE DRMA |
| Best For | Work loads needing balanced performance and high storage capacity |
| Profile | All-flash, Hybrid |
| Form Factor | 2U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-16 |
| Processors | Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors |
| Memory | 128GB to 6TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe +SSD, NVMe + SSD + HDD |
| Networks | Up to 100GbE RoCE RDMA |
| Best For | Two nodes optimized in a 2U form factor for balanced work loads |
| Profile | All-flash, Hybrid |
| Form Factor | 2U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-4 (1-2 systems) |
| Processors | Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors |
| Memory | 128GB to 6TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe +SSD, NVMe + SSD + HDD |
| Networks | Up to 100GbE RoCE RDMA |
| Best For | Balanced performance work loads and high storage density |
| Profile | Hybrid |
| Form Factor | 1U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-4 |
| Processors | Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors |
| Memory | 128GB to 3TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe + HDD |
| Networks | Up to 100GbE RoCE RDMA |
AMD EPYC™-based Solution
Supermicro A+ servers based Azure Stack HCI solutions are optimized for AMD EPYC 7003/7002 series processors and deliver excellent core density, memory bandwidth and I/O capacity.
- AS -1114S-WN10RT-HCI
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1U
| Best For | Cost-effective and flexible HCI solution for both balanced and high-performance workloads |
| Server SKU | AS -1114S-WN10RT |
| Profile | All-flash |
| Form Factor | 1U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-16 |
| Processors | Single AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processor |
| Memory | 128GB to 4TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe, SSD |
| Networks | Up to 100GbE RoCE RDMA |
| Best For | Work loads that need high CPU core counts and high storage capacity |
| Profile | All-flash, Hybrid |
| Form Factor | 2U |
| Nodes in a cluster | 2-4 |
| Processors | Dual AMD EPYC™ 7000 Series Processors |
| Memory | 128GB to 8TB DDR4 |
| Storage Type | NVMe +SSD, NVMe + SSD + HDD |
| Networks | Up to 100GbE RoCE RDMA |