Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub is a cloud platform that provides Microsoft Azure services in your data center and enables connectivity to the Azure public cloud. The solution offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for rapid provisioning of virtual machine-based workloads. It also enables you to provide Microsoft SQL, MySQL, and other Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings to your organization.

Many of the resource providers in Azure Stack Hub are consistent with the APIs used in the Azure public cloud. This consistency provides developers an easier path to develop applications. It also facilitates the ability to move workloads between private and public deployment scenarios. Dell Technologies carefully matches the capabilities of the network and server hardware infrastructure components to meet the needs of Microsoft Azure Stack Hub.

Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub has been designed and validated as an integrated solution. It is available for customers using various Microsoft Active Directory authentication providers and public-cloud connectivity options.

Solution architecture

The Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub solution is a hyperconverged infrastructure appliance from Dell Technologies and Microsoft that allows you to create a hybrid Azure environment. The solution is powered by Microsoft Windows 2019 software-defined storage and networking capabilities, the Dell EMC hyperconverged infrastructure, and is managed through the Azure Stack Hub interface.