Hey there Checkyourlogs Fans,

 

Do we have an awesome day lined up for you? Today, we are hosting Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI Day. We have speakers from all over the world including some great vendor coverage from DataON, Dell, Intel, and of course Microsoft. Our list of speakers includes:

Kenny Lowe, Thomas Maurer, Jaromir Kaspar, Carsten Rachfahl, Kristopher Turner, Howard Lo, Janka Rangama, Dave Kawula, Didier Van Hoye, Jayanth Dattari, Jan-Tore Pedersen, and Alessandro Goncalves.

The combined knowledge of this group is incredible.


 

Of course putting on the show wouldn’t be possible without the tireless work of our MVPDays team: Cristal Kawula, John O’Neill Sr, Cary Sun, and Emile Cabot. These videos, session selection, social media promotion can’t be done without a team.

 

Here is a list of the sessions that are coming up.

 

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  • Journey to the Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack HCI

    Azure Stack HCI is an evolution of data center computing that blends Windows Server technologies with Azure management service integration. DataON like to take you on a journey to the Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack HCI

    Room 1

    Wed 9:00 AM — 30 min

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  • Deploying real AzS HCI clusters with WSLab

    This session will explain the process of deploying real infrastructure and how to use WSLab scenarios to do so.

    Room 1

    Wed 9:30 AM — 30 min

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  • Azure Stack HCI Must-Have PowerShell Reports

    Now you are beyond the proof of concept and are in operations mode with Azure Stack HCI. During this session you will learn about Dave’s must-have PowerShell Operational support scripts. This includes some of his daily health check reporting scripts for ReFS, Data Integrity, Cluster, Volumes, Deduplication and more. You will also learn how you can easily build your own as-built documentation with community scripts. If you haven’t already make sure you join the slack community for Azure Stack HCI at http://slack.storagespacesdirect.com

    Room 1

    Wed 10:00 AM — 30 min

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  • Azure App Service for the Azure Stack Operator

    In a public cloud environment, Microsoft manages all the underpinnings of Azure to deliver IaaS and PaaS services to you. As an Azure Stack Operator, you’re responsible for managing some of these behind the scenes elements, including the configuration and management of PaaS resource providers.

    The App Service in Azure Stack comes with a number unique and little understood, configuration options that extend and enhance the value of the App Service on-premises beyond that which is available in Public Azure.

    In this session, we’ll explore how you the Operator can leverage these features to bring hitherto unseen options and capabilities to your Azure Stack tenants!

    Room 1

    Wed 10:30 AM — 30 min

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  • Janaka Rangama

  • Building Cloud-Native Hybrid Apps with Azure (1.Stack)

    In this session, we will explore how Microsoft Cloud can provide edge compute for developing intelligent apps. We will further discuss edge and disconnected scenarios with Microsoft Azure & Azure Stack. Join us to experience a live demo of extending your cloud-native app strategy to from Azure to Azure Stack.

    Room 1

    Wed 11:00 AM — 30 min

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  • Carsten Rachfahl
  • Didier Van Hoye

  • Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2019 – the good the bad and fantastic

    Storage Spaces Direct is without a douth the infrastructure star in the Microsoft on-Premises world. Now the second release is available, and it is time to talk about the new exciting possibilities you have with Storage Spaces Direct and Windows Server 2019. Come and join Carsten in this session, where he shares his learnings and best practices with Storage Spaces Direct Version 2.

    Room 1

    Wed 11:30 AM — 30 min

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  • Azure STack HCI – the latest tips and tricks from the field

    In this session, Carsten will talk about the latest tips and tricks in Azure Stack HCI (aka Storage Spaces Direct).

    Room 1

    Wed 12:00 PM — 30 min

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  • 30 tips in 30 minutes for Azure Stack HCI

    In this session, I will share with you 30 tips you should know about for Azure Stack HCI and Storage Spaces Direct. There will be 1 slide rest tips and tricks in Powershell, windows admin center, vmm, and other small tools

    Room 1

    Wed 12:30 PM — 30 min

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  • Got Storage Latency. Check under the hood of I/O Stack

    Discover your full-stack latency breakdown and shine light to some hard Storage latency cases. Tips on tracing and events on Windows Storage Stack.

    Room 1

    Wed 1:00 PM — 30 min

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  • Hybrid Management Technologies using Azure Stack HCI

    Windows Server, Azure Stack HCI, and Windows Admin Center not only provide you with great hyper-converged solutions but also enable you to connect to Azure Hybrid Cloud services. In this session, Thomas Maurer will show you how you can connect Azure services like Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure File Sync, Azure Monitor, and many more to your on-prem Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI environment.

    Room 1

    Wed 1:30 PM — 30 min

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  • Azure Stack Deployment Overview

    In this session, we will discuss how to deploy a fully integrated version of Azure Stack in the customer environment. We will go over various deployment considerations and how to work hand in hand with customers during the phase of the deployment

    Room 1

    Wed 2:00 PM — 30 min

     

    Lastly, if you want to tune into the show you can watch here or directly on my Youtube Channel.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Ak_SYBX1g

     

     

    Thanks,

     

    Dave