Later, images from third-party publishers will be available too. In just a few clicks, you can conveniently deploy the latest fully-patched images from Microsoft, including Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition with hotpatching and Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session for Azure Virtual Desktop. Using a Marketplace image is often the fastest way to get up and running. Today, we’re adding some important new features in Public Preview 2.įirst, in addition to using your own custom images, you can now access images from the Azure Marketplace. Earlier this year, we launched the public preview of Azure Arc-enabled VM management, which lets you deploy VMs onto Azure Stack HCI through ARM, the Azure CLI, and the Azure Portal. With Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc, you can apply cloud management patterns in your on-premises environment too. The cloud changed how we manage virtual machines. This new benefit dramatically reduces the cost of modernizing your Hyper-V environment to Azure Stack HCI.Īctivate the benefit directly from the Azure Portal on your cluster’s Configuration page:Īzure Arc-enabled VM management: Public Preview 2 This includes the right to run unlimited Azure Kubernetes Service and unlimited Windows Server guest workloads on the Azure Stack HCI cluster! See the licensing terms for full details. That’s why, effective today, Enterprise Agreement customers with Software Assurance can exchange their existing licensed cores of Windows Server Datacenter to get Azure Stack HCI at no additional cost.

We heard your feedback that you want to adopt Azure Stack HCI, but you’re already locked into a Software Assurance contract for Windows Server Datacenter.

Today we’re introducing a new Azure hybrid benefit for Windows Server customers. New benefit for Software Assurance customers Read on, or watch this short video for the highlights:

Follow him on Twitter at Microsoft Ignite 2022, we’re announcing new ways that Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI can help you operate hybrid seamlessly, including a new hybrid benefit for Software Assurance customers, Public Preview 2 of Azure Arc-enabled VM management, the general availability of version 22H2 packed with improvements, big changes for hybrid Azure Kubernetes Service, and an exciting surprise (did somebody say hardware?).

Written by Cosmos Darwin, Principal PM Manager on the Azure Edge & Platform team.

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