This post will be a short guide through all steps without HCI Setup.

Requirements

After you have deployed your HCI Cluster successfully you will have your cluster resources within the azure portal. Once you click on that cluster you will find the following overview.

As you can see as well all prerequisites are met. These prerequisites are:

Deployment

Now you can click on “DEPLOY” to start a custom deployment:

most of the informations are clear, but these 3 were a bit tricky for me 😉

LOCATION

The location you will find within your Azure ARC resources. (Azure Portal > Azure Arc > Custom Location > Properties > ID

IMAGE

To finde the Image id it is required to add at least one image to azure stack.

You have three options to add an image:

The easiest way to get started is to add an azure marketplace image. I have already added “Windows 11” and “Windows Server” to my list. After adding an image go to azure portal > azure stack hci > vm image > “windows11” now copy the url from your browser – that must look like this:

https://portal.azure.com/#DOMAIN/resource/subscriptions/SUB_ID/resourceGroups/RG-NAME/providers/microsoft.azurestackhci/marketplaceGalleryImages/IMAGE-NAME/overview

remove /overview at the end und copy that url to your custom deployment.

NETWORK

Go to Azure Stack HCI > Your HCI Stack > virtual networks > and copy the browser URL that must look like this: https://portal.azure.com/#@DOMAIN/resource/subscriptions/SUB_ID/resourceGroups/RG-NAME/providers/Microsoft.AzureStackHCI/clusters/CLUSTERNAME/virtualnetworks

and add your virtual network name to the end like this:

https://portal.azure.com/#@DOMAIN/resource/subscriptions/SUB_ID/resourceGroups/RG-NAME/providers/Microsoft.AzureStackHCI/clusters/CLUSTERNAME/virtualnetworks/NETWORKNAME

Issues during deployment

My first deployments failed and I wasn’t sure why. After I checked the deployments within my resource group and checked my inputs to the last failed one

I found that my VM tries to get access to the following URL. That was blocked so I copied that script and created my own https url as a workarround.

To change that URL only “redeploy” of one of the last deployments gives you the option to change that URL

After Deployment

After that deployment I had my VM up and running on my azure stack hci. It was domain joined but the avd agent was mising. I installed that avd agent manually. Now I was able to see that host within the azure portal.

Successful Connection

and here we go I was able to get a connection