SCVMM management for Azure Stack HCI 23H2

The System Center team just shared some information on System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) supporting the latest Azure Stack HCI, version 23H2. As you know Azure Stack HCI 23H2 brings cloud-based management from Azure to the next level using Azure Arc management capabilities, but also many of our large-scale datacenter customers are using System Center VMM to manage their virtualization environment. Now the System Center team just shared some information on which scenarios will be supported with SCVMM.

Supported Azure Stack HCI scenarios with System Center 

The following scenarios will be supported in SCVMM to manage Azure Stack HCI 23H2: 

• Addition, creation and management of Azure Stack HCI clusters.  
• Ability to provision and deploy Virtual Machines (VMs) on the Azure Stack HCI clusters and perform VM lifecycle operations.  
• Set up networking on Azure Stack HCI clusters. 
• Deployment and management of SDN network controller on Azure Stack HCI clusters. 
• Management of storage pool settings, creation of virtual disks, creation of cluster shared volumes (CSVs) and application of QoS settings. 
• Migration of VMware and Windows Server based workloads to Azure Stack HCI.  
• Management of Azure Stack HCI clusters using the same PowerShell cmdlets used to manage Windows Server clusters. 
• Azure based VM self-serve capabilities and Azure management services through Azure Arc-enabled SCVMM.

Supported Azure Stack HCI scenarios through Azure and WAC 

The following scenarios will continue to be supported from the Azure Portal/WAC to manage Azure Stack HCI 23H2: 

• Creation of Azure Stack HCI clusters.  
• Register and unregister Azure Stack HCI clusters from VMM.   
• Upgrading Azure Stack HCI 22H2 clusters to 23H2.  
• Enablement of Azure benefits on VMs running on Azure Stack HCI clusters. 
• All operations on Azure Stack HCI clusters deployed with Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC).  
• All new Azure Stack HCI 23H2 features like GPU-Partitioning, SDN Multi-site, etc.  
• All Azure Stack HCI features that were previously unsupported with SCVMM like Stretched clustering.  
• When is the support for Azure Stack HCI 23H2 coming with System Center? 
• Azure Stack HCI 23H2 support will be added to the next LTSC version of System Center. The General Availability of the next LTSC version of System Center will be closer to the General Availability of Windows Server 2025.  

When is the support System Center coming for Azure Stack HCI 23H2? 

Azure Stack HCI 23H2 support will be added to the next LTSC version of System Center. The General Availability of the next LTSC version of System Center will be closer to the General Availability of Windows Server 2025.  

Learn more

You can learn more directly on the System Center blog.