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.
Model | DataON HCI-7208 validated nodes for Azure Local |
Profile | All-NVMe; performance & expansion |
Form Factor | 1U / 1-Node rack server |
Scalability | 2 to 16 Nodes per cluster |
CPU | 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors |
Cores | Dual socket, 8-120 cores (per node) |
Memory | 521GB – 8TB DDR5 MT/s DIMMs |
Raw Storage | 3GB – 122TB |
Drive Bay Configuration | 8x 2.5” NVMe U.2 |
PCIe Slot Configuration | 2x PCIe 5.0 x8; 4x PCIe 5.0 x8 (electrical and x16 mechanical); 2x PCIe 5.0 x16 (electrical/mechanical) |
Onboard Networking | 2x 10GbE RJ45 OCP mezzanine (per node) |
Add-on Networking | 2x 25GbE SFP28 or 2x 40/50/100GbE QSFP 28/56 2-port RDMA (per node) |
GPU Support | No |
PMEM Support | No |
Secured-Core Server | Yes |
Kernel Soft Reboot | Yes |
Vectorized AES | Yes |
VM Memory Encryption | Yes |
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. ”