Get up and running quickly and reliably with DataON HCI-7208 validated nodes for Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI). Optimized for performance & expansion, with all-NVMe flash storage, they provide a reference architecture-like experience for organizations looking to start or extend their hybrid cloud journey with Azure services, consolidate virtualized workloads, and implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on-premises to run containerized applications. 

DataON validated nodes are powered by 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors, combining Intel® technology with Azure Arc-enabled Azure Local.

Microsoft and Intel have worked closely together to optimize the features and performance of Azure Local, providing a fast path to hybrid cloud deployment and data center infrastructure modernization.

ModelDataON HCI-7208 validated nodes for Azure Local
ProfileAll-NVMe; performance & expansion
Form Factor1U / 1-Node rack server
Scalability2 to 16 Nodes per cluster
CPU5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors
CoresDual socket, 8-120 cores (per node)
Memory521GB – 8TB DDR5 MT/s DIMMs
Raw Storage3GB – 122TB
Drive Bay Configuration8x 2.5” NVMe U.2
PCIe Slot Configuration2x PCIe 5.0 x8; 4x PCIe 5.0 x8 (electrical and x16 mechanical); 2x PCIe 5.0 x16 (electrical/mechanical)
Onboard Networking2x 10GbE RJ45 OCP mezzanine (per node)
Add-on Networking2x 25GbE SFP28 or 2x 40/50/100GbE QSFP 28/56 2-port RDMA (per node)
GPU SupportNo
PMEM SupportNo
Secured-Core ServerYes
Kernel Soft RebootYes
Vectorized AESYes
VM Memory EncryptionYes

A complete and turnkey experience

Our team of Microsoft experts know how to design, deploy, and support Azure Local. We deliver our solutions as a complete, turnkey experience and we will work with you to performance tune your workloads with benchmarks.

Simplified management with DataON MUST

Combines with Windows Admin Center to provide monitoring & management from a single console. Adds functionality such as enhanced disk mapping, alert servers, and call home service.

World-class service and support

DataON is an exclusive Microsoft partner and our team of Azure Local experts provide white glove service to make sure you stay up and running.

Workload-optimized performance with 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors

5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors help boost performance, reduce costs, and improve power efficiency for today’s demanding workloads, including AI, HPC, security, networking, analytics, and storage.

Solidigm NVMe SSDs for performance software-defined storage

Solidigm TLC NAND and QLC NAND SSDs provide high performance and low latency or Azure Stack HCI. All-flash SSDs offer the performance and reliability needed to support multiple workloads with high performance in a single HCI cluster.

NVIDIA networking delivers industry-leading performance & efficiency

NVIDIA ConnectX SmartNICs offer flexibility, higher performance and lower latency through RoCE v2 technology. This allows for more virtual appliances, virtual machines (VMs), and tenants to co-exist on the same hardware.

“DataON offers some of our favorite Azure Stack HCI solutions. The DataON cluster we’ve been testing has posted tremendous numbers, the fastest we’ve seen in a mid-market 4-node HCI cluster.

We’re really impressed with what such a small company (relatively speaking) is achieving. ”

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Resources

DataON HCI Family
Quick Reference Guide

Azure Stack HCI
Datasheet

Arc-Enabled
Azure Stack HCI Solution Brief

Hybrid Cloud Use Cases
for Azure Stack HCI

5th Gen Intel® Xeon®
Processors Solution Brief

A Simpler Path to Azure Stack HCI
from DataON & Solidigm

No one knows Microsoft hybrid cloud like DataON

We can help you make the leap to hybrid cloud