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The infrastructure must be correctly sized and easy to deploy, scale, support, and maintain to rapidly respond to dynamic application and database requirements. See the Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Solutions Catalog to view the integrated system configurations supported by Dell Technologies.
The purpose-built Azure Stack HCI operating system delivered as an Azure service comes factory preinstalled on AX nodes from Dell for simplified deployments. IT administrators already familiar with Hyper-V and Storage Spaces Direct can use existing skill sets and familiar tools for deployment, life cycle management, automation, and performance tuning.