Preparing for deployment
Before deploying Azure Stack Hub into an environment, certain planning needs to take place, including the touchpoints required for integration with the existing data center. Your OEM vendor will work with you throughout the planning stage to ensure everything is ready prior to the deployment. Some of the areas that you need to consider when planning for Azure Stack Hub include the following:
- Connection model
- Billing
- Networking
- Identity
- Certificates
We will look at these crucial decisions first before walking through the deployment.
Identity prerequisites
One of the key decision points before implementing Azure Stack Hub is choosing whether the Azure Stack Hub deployment is connected or not connected to Azure. This is a one-time decision that must be made at deployment time and it cannot be changed later without a re-deployment of the Azure Stack Hub solution.
There are a couple of key differences between the connected...
