The capacity model is only available for Enterprise Enrollment customers and is useful when Azure Stack Hub is deployed in disconnected scenarios and usage can’t be reported to Microsoft. Customers must license all physical cores of the Azure Stack Hub…
In the consumption model, an Azure Subscription is chosen when the Azure Stack Hub integrated system is set up, and then usage for each service is metered and transmitted to Microsoft. If customers are running Windows Server virtual machines then…
Azure Stack Hub is sold as an integrated hardware system, with software preinstalled on validated hardware. It includes a (small) subset of the Azure services giving customers an autonomous cloud that they can run completely or partially disconnected from the…
Azure Stack HCI was the original name of the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster solution that hosts virtualized Windows and Linux workloads and their storage. It was renamed to Azure Local in November 2024. Customers can either buy a valid hardware…
An Azure Stack Edge solution enables customers to run edge-computing workloads on an Azure managed appliance. It’s sold as a hardware-as-a-service solution so the customer never owns the device, but rather orders and rents the device from Microsoft, paying a…
Azure Stack solutions enable customers to extend the Azure services and capabilities to their own environments, whether that’s a data center, an edge location, or a remote office. There are three members of the Azure Stack family: Azure Stack Edge…
If you run Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 and SQL Server 2012 virtual machines in Azure Dedicated Host, they're automatically enabled for Extended Security Updates. You don't need to configure anything, and there's no additional charge for using Extended Security Updates…
An alternative to licensing at the virtual machine level is to license for unlimited virtualization. To do this, you need Windows Server Datacenter Core licenses and SQL Server Enterprise Core licenses either with active Software Assurance or purchased as Software…
If customers are eligible for the Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server and SQL Server then they can bring those licenses to virtual machines in an Azure Dedicated Host solution. The rules in terms of how many licenses are required…
Let’s imagine that Taupe Telecoms want to run Windows Server and SQL Server in the 7 virtual machines that they chose in the last section. There are a couple of different ways of doing this, and the first is to…