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This is the network setup for Azure Stack ASDK as of February 2020.  All of the Azure Stack VMs run on a single host using Storage Pool to host all the the VM disks. Note that the NAT gateway machine no longer exists. VMS Azure Stack ASDK installs these virtual machines. AzS-ACS01 AzS-ADFS01 AzS-CA01 AzS-DC01 AzS-ERCS01 AzS-Gwy01 AzS-NC01 AzS-SLB01 AzS-SQL01 AzS-SRNG01 AzS-WAS01 AzS-WASP01 AzS-Xrp01

Microsoft Azure Stack ASDK documentation  Prepare the host Set up the ASDK Installer GitHub Post Deploy steps   It is possible tovalidate via the priv endpoint prior to ASDK powershell installation. Register your ASDK with Azure ASDK Admin Basics (once installed) Process Overview The install starts on your Windows Server where you enable a direct bootable VHD The process then moves to running a bootable VHD running on the Windows Server.  The final step installs VM servers in Hyper-V inside the bootable VHD. Start and Stop You can reboot out of the VHD and back into your root system and back again without issues. The management VMs autostart and then deploy the rest of the components on Hyper-V restart. Video Walk-through Change Log 2020 02 09 Added post installation steps including Azure regsitration

Azure Stack ASDK is a cloud-like environment that lets you experiment with Microsoft Azure services at home or in a non-cloud data center. The ASDK runs in a completely self contained environment that is delivered as a bootable VHD.  That VHD runs the Azure Stack ASDK as a cloud environment running in Hyper-V running on top of the Azure Stack booted VHD.  Azure Stack program and server deployments and provisioning are typically managed from the Azure portal or via PowerShell.   Data Disks The AzureStack ASDK documentation doesn't make it obvious how data disks are used or how they should be sized. It just says that you need 4 blank disks over a certain size without any other guidance.  I had 4 250GB SSDs above the minimum.  That didn't seem to work while a combination of large spinning disks and smaller SSDs worked on the first attempt.   ASDK pulls the data disks into a storage cluster. The storage cluster can combine disks of ...