Azure Stack HCI provides flexible, scalable, and secure solutions to organizations wanting to consolidate virtualized workloads using a hybrid cloud solution strategy. We acquired a 5-node cluster of Dell AX750 Azure Stack nodes with the 22H2 operating system (build 20349.1970) with NVIDIA GPU support. Local storage for the cluster is a total of 120 1.6TB SSD all flash drives to meet the performance needs and scaling of demanding computer vision and VMS workloads.

Before you purchase hardware and deploy the Azure Stack HCI operating system:

• Plan your physical network requirements and host network requirements.
• Choose drive type and capacity.
• Plan volumes to meet your storage performance and capacity requirements.

We used our knowledge of implementing AI systems with VMS and Computer Vision capability to choose a configuration for our Dell AX nodes for Azure Stack HCI with the following components.

Detailed specification for each of the five nodes

CPU

2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6326 2.9G, 16C/32T, 11.2GT/s, 24M Cache, Turbo, HT (185W) DDR4-3200

Memory

16 x 32GB RDIMM, 3200MT/s, Dual Rank 16Gb BASE x8

Storage

24 x 1.6TB SSD SAS ISE Mix Use 12Gbps 512e 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive

GPU

2 x NVIDIA Ampere A16, PCIe, 250W, 64GB Passive, DW, FH GPU

Network Interfaces

• 1 x Mellanox ConnectX-5 Dual Port 10/25GbE SFP28 Adapter, PCIe Low Profile, V2
• 1 x Broadcom 57414 Dual Port 10/25GbE SFP28, OCP NIC 3.0