Overview
The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure is the first offer in the Microsoft Premier Solutions for Azure Stack HCI category that supports linear scaling of storage resources independently from Azure Stack HCI compute and Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) with Dell PowerFlex. This implementation guide provides the step-by-step instructions to configure the Azure Stack HCI cluster to consume block storage from PowerFlex.
Audience
This Dell Validated Design (DVD) Guide is intended for IT experts who are interested in building an optimized Azure hybrid cloud platform that can host a broad set of workload profiles. Organizations considering a migration to Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure from competing solutions may also find this guide very helpful. The guide illustrates how to unlock new use cases by extending Azure Stack HCI to include Dell enterprise-class software-defined storage.
The audience for this guide can include IT managers, system engineers, field consultants, and others with expertise in virtualization and cloud computing.