TL;DW Webinar Report: Deploying Stretched Clusters for Automatic Failover on Azure Stack HCI

If you missed our webinar, you can watch the entire recording on BrightTALK. But if you need the TL;DW, check out the summary below, complete with YouTube timestamps.

1/ The hybrid cloud journey: Azure everywhere [02:56]  (SPEAKER: Howard Lo, DataON)

  • HCI by the numbers and industry trends [05:40]
  • Azure-driven hybrid cloud [06:26]
  • Azure Stack HCI by DataON [8:49]
  • Azure Stack HCI optimized workloads [09:11]
  • The new Azure Stack HCI to be delivered as an Azure service [10:27]

2/ Stretched clusters on Azure Stack HCI  [11:52] (SPEAKER: John Marlin, Microsoft)

  • Azure Stack HCI version 20H2 [12:38]
  • Customers want hybrid cloud [13:30]
  • Modernize data centers with Azure Stack HCI [14:05]
  • Growing Azure Stack HCI into its own product line [15:40]
  • Purpose-built OS [18:33]
  • Windows Server [20:17]
  • When disasters hits [21:31]
  • Native disaster recovery with stretch clustering [22:16]
  • Enabling Storage Spaces Direct [22:41]
  • Azure integration [30:26]
  • Azure Stack HCI 20H2 available in preview [32:58]

3/ Azure Stack HCI stretched clusters with Intel technologies [34:58] (SPEAKER: Marcelo Pinheiro, Intel)

  • Intel’s end-to-end data center portfolio for customers [35:25]
  • Intel architecture as a foundation for Azure Stack HCI [36:59]
  • Disaster recovery with stretched clusters and key Intel technologies [39:30]
  • Azure Stack HCI cluster checkpoints [44:16]

4/ Stretched clusters in the real world  [48:55] (SPEAKER: Jason Cheung, DataON)

  • Stretched cluster testing [49:59]
  • Testing process, and procedures [51:24]
  • Observations and takeaways [58:01]

5/ Partnering with DataON  [59:30] (SPEAKER: Howard Lo)

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