Reviewing Azure Stack Hub compute scenarios

During deployment, the infrastructure virtual machines are registered to the compute controller or compute resource provider (CRP). These infrastructure virtual machines are created as Gen2 services with dynamic memory, while tenant virtual machines are created as Gen1 services. One particular infrastructure virtual machine in the portal is an infrastructure role instance. These virtual machines can be started, restarted, or shut down via the Azure Stack Hub portal. CRP uses placement rules to prevent all the infrastructure virtual machines of the same type from running on the same host. An example of this infrastructure instance in the Azure Stack Hub administration portal is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.15 – Azure Stack Hub infrastructure instance

Various life cycle operations can be performed by the compute controller and kicked off from the Azure Stack Hub portal, as shown in the following...