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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