Premier Solutions: Turnkey Azure Local solutions
- Deepest integration and highest level of automation, built through deep engineering collaboration between Microsoft and solution partners
- Continuous testing by Microsoft and our partners, to ensure higher reliability and minimal downtime
- End-to-end deployment workflows that make it easy to deploy one cluster or a thousand clusters
- Support for features designed specifically for Premier Solutions: disconnected operations, Microsoft 365 Local, and support for Fibre Channel SAN storage.
Integrated Systems: Single purpose system with pre-installed software
- Optimized hardware selection with regular testing for ongoing reliability
- Delivered with software pre-installed and security set by default
- Validated full-stack updates and native hardware management tools
Premier Solutions versus Integration Systems
| SOLUTION TESTING | ||
| Attribute | Premier Solutions | Integrated Systems |
| Server platform testing | Testing every major OS release | Testing every major OS release |
| Full solution hardware and software testing | Testing every 6 months | Testing every 6 month |
| Support of updates | Support within 10 days of standard release and 1 month of major OS release | Support within 10 days of standard release and 1 month of major OS release |
| SUPPORT | ||
| Attribute | Premier Solutions | Integrated Systems |
| Integrated support between Microsoft and solution builder | Required | N/A |
| SOLUTION CAPABILITIES | ||
| Attribute | Premier Solutions | Integrated Systems |
| Microsoft 365 Local | Support is hardware-specific. Please refer to solution details for support. | N/A |
| Disconnected operations | Support is hardware-specific. Please refer to solution details for support. | N/A |
| AI workload | Support is hardware-specific. Please refer to solution details for support. | Support is hardware-specific. Please refer to solution details for support. |
| SOLUTION UPDATES | ||
| Attribute | Premier Solutions | Integrated Systems |
| Packaged firmware and driver updates | Required | Required |
| Cluster aware updating of firmware and driver install | Required | Required |
| Automated download of update to cluster | Required | Required |
| Cluster health check validation before update | Required | Required |
| SOLUTION BUILDER EXTENSION | ||
| Attribute | Premier Solutions | Integrated Systems |
| Software threat model review | Required | Required |