Brian invited Ernie Costa to join him for this podcast. Ernie is a Team Lead at Commvault and a Microsoft Azure Hybrid MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Ernie’s LinkedIn profile lists his background as a Systems Administrator, Engineer, and Architect with 20 years of Enterprise, SMB, Financial, Hospitality, and Educational experience.

Brian invited Ernie Costa to join him for this podcast. Ernie is a Team Lead at Commvault and a Microsoft Azure Hybrid MVP (Most Valuable Professional). Ernie’s LinkedIn profile lists his background as a Systems Administrator, Engineer, and Architect with 20 years of Enterprise, SMB, Financial, Hospitality, and Educational experience.

He was involved with data center operations, on-premises and cloud infrastructure design and implementation, networking architecting, project management, vendor contract negotiations, and multi-tier Help Desk procedures. Ernie knows his way around the data center and the cloud.

As mentioned above, Ernie is also a Microsoft MVP. To put the MVP title into context, Microsoft describes the “award” this way:

“Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the “bleeding edge” and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies. They have very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions to solve real-world problems. MVPs make up a global community of over 4,000 technical experts and community leaders across 90 countries/regions and are driven by their passion, community spirit, and quest for knowledge. Above all, and in addition to their amazing technical abilities, MVPs are always willing to help others – that’s what sets them apart.”

Taking advantage of Ernie’s MVP Award, their conversation gets into Microsoft Azure Arc, Managed SQL Server, HCI Stack, and more.

Podcast #87: What’s Next for Azure Stack HCI with Cosmos Darwin?

Podcast #119 timestamp:

00  Introduction

• Background
  • Current role with Commvault
  • Microsoft consumption
    • Azure
    • Hyper-V
    • Azure Stack HCI

05  Hypervisor and HCI

• Why Hyper-V?
• On-prem HCI
• Reasons for HCI from an internal perspective

10  Hybrid model

• Folding all Azure Cloud features into an on-prem HCI
• Governance and Security
• Azure Arc
• What is Arc
  • Branding term
  • A suite of cloud-connected technologies
  • Management

15  Virtual Appliance

• • SQL Server deployment
  • SQL on Linux
  • Everything gets handled for you
  • It’s less worry about
  • Containerization

20  Server Names

• • Naming conventions
  • Operational benefits
  • Test environments
  • Manual vs. Automation

25  Azure Stack vs. Azure Cloud

• Similarities
• On-prem vs. cloud management
• Kubernetes tools
• Arc delivers all the visibility

30  Costs

• It costs to have it cloud easy
• Azure Stack HCI is cost-effective and fast
• Early support was spotty
• Support today is better

35  Other services

• AVD – Azure Virtual Desktop on HCI
• Thin Clients
• Security
• Corporate espionage
• Data exfiltration

40  Dispersed Workforce

• Global workforces
• Data Gravity
• On-premise virtual desktops
• GPU Partitioning

45  Azure Stack HCI update cadence

• Management
• Microsoft remote support through Azure
• Network desired state
• How to experience Azure Arc
• Azure Arc Jumpstart

50  Sandbox

• SQL Server Managed Instance
• Powershell
• That’s a wrap

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