
Fundamental topics will be covered at a high level only with the understanding that the attendees may have familiarity with compute, storage, and networking.
The first part of the bootcamp is primarily designed for presale technical resources involved with positioning the new Azure Stack HCI in customer environments but anyone with an interest in Azure Stack HCI will benefit. The last two hours of the bootcamp are specifically targeted to people with a sales role focusing on ‘How to sell’ Azure Stack HCI.
The curriculum has been designed to provide knowledge of hybrid capability of Azure Stack HCI and how these capabilities can enable new scenarios for this hybrid, hyperconverged infrastructure solution. It also will cover hardware considerations and the customer value of Azure Stack HCI on Intel architecture. Intel and Microsoft experts will be presenting in various sections to ensure the best possible coverage of the content.
To build your understanding of the new Azure Stack HCI, please visit azure.com/hci.

- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- On-Demand
Sessions:
- HCI adoption in market-Market size, adoption, key players, and state of the technology. (10 mins.)
- Overview of the differentiators of the new Azure Stack HCI including AKS on HCI. (25 mins.)
- Panel: Specific partner opportunities – what’s in it for device partners, role of CSPs and SIs. (30 mins.)
Panel with Intel and Microsoft: Samantha Doherty, Michel Rau, Hiro Suzuki and Eman Yarlagadda

Cosmos Darwin
Senior Program Manager, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft

Samantha Doherty
DPS Product Marketing lead for Apps & Infra, Microsoft

DPS GTM Lead for Apps & Infra, Microsoft

Hiro Suzuki
Principal Program Manager CPPE, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft

Eman Yarlagadda
Hybrid, Multi-Cloud, Edge Business Development Lead, Intel
- On-Demand
Sessions:
1. Hyper-V (15 mins.)
- Technology
- Notable new features
- Virtual Machine Configurations
- Managing Hyper-V with WAC in Azure Stack HCI
- What is it/ overview
- Architecture and key components
- Plan-deploy-manage overview
- Overview of key concepts
- Plan
- Deploy and manage S2D
- Discussion on rebuilt time performance

Senior Customer Engineer, Microsoft

Kyle Bisnett
Senior Customer Engineer, Microsoft

Steven Ekren
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
- On-Demand
Session:
1. Deploy and use the new stretch clustering technology. (25 mins.)

Jeff Woolsey
Principal Program Manager, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft
- On-Demand
Sessions:
- Use of Azure Portal with HCI and new capabilities enables through Azure and how it helps your customers. (25 mins.)
- Business model – delivered as an Azure service, pricing examples. (15 mins.)

Cosmos Darwin
Senior Program Manager, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft
- On-Demand
Sessions:
- Overview of Windows Admin Center for deployment. (10 mins.)
- How to deploy, tools to use, initial set-up, use of GUI. (20 mins.)

Matt McSpirit
Senior Program Manager, Customer Programs & Partner Ecosystem, Microsoft
- On-Demand
Sessions:
- VMs capacity sizing-hardware consideration. (20 mins.)
- Virtual Machine migration to Azure Stack HCI. (20 mins.)
- Panel: Best practices for optimal performance for use cases leveraging modern hardware advances. (40 mins.)
Panel with Intel and Microsoft: Cosmos Darwin, Steven Ekren and Todd Christ

Cosmos Darwin
Senior Program Manager, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft

Steven Ekren
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Kerim Hanif
Senior Program Manager, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft

Todd Christ
Senior Solutions Architect/Enterprise Strategy and Solutions Group, Intel
- On-Demand
Sessions:
- Connect the Azure Stack HCI hosts (Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, Cloud witness, Update Management, Azure Security Center).
- Connect VMs running on Azure Stack HCI (Azure Site Recovery, Backup, File Sync, Update Management, Monitor, Security Center). (15 mins.)
- Best Practices when to use WAC vs Azure Portal for management/monitoring. (15 mins.)

Jeff Woolsey
Principal Program Manager, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft
- On-Demand
Sessions:
- Target audience and use case scenarios and Guest Licensing Discussion. (30 mins.)
- Product strengths and differentiators to highlight. (30 mins.)
- Deployment options and value of Integrated Systems. (15 mins.)
- Key objections and how to handle. (15 mins.)
- Panel: Live Q&A with subject matter experts. (30 mins.)
Panel with Intel and Microsoft: Albert Crews, Duane Bourgeois, Jeffrey Root and Dion Ubert

Duane Bourgeois
Principal Program Manager CPPE, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft

Claude Lorenson
Azure Stack HCI Sr Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft

Cosmos Darwin
Senior Program Manager, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft

Hiro Suzuki
Principal Program Manager CPPE, Azure Edge & Platform, Microsoft

Albert Crews
Business Strategy Lead, Microsoft

Jeffrey Root
Sales Director Cloud & Enterprise, Azure, Microsoft

Dion Ubert
Global Sales & Marketing Lead Windows PC & Azure Ecosystem, Intel