Burst to Azure Worker Instances with Microsoft HPC Pack

This section contains information about extending your Windows HPC cluster to include Azure worker role instances as compute resources. Using these Azure nodes, you can increase (“burst”) the capacity of your HPC cluster either on-demand or according to a schedule you configure.

You add the Azure nodes to the cluster and provision them in Azure by using the tools provided in HPC Pack. HPC Pack manages and monitors the communication with an Azure cloud service and storage account in your Azure subscription, and gives you access to additional Azure features for your deployments. Then, you can use the Azure nodes to run many of the applications and jobs that can run in an on-premises cluster.

Note

• Support for deploying Azure nodes was introduced in HPC Pack 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (SP1).

In this section

This section includes the following topics:

• Requirements to Add Azure Nodes with Microsoft HPC Pack

• Azure Feature Compatibility with Microsoft HPC Pack

• Options to Configure the Azure Management Certificate for Azure Burst Deployments

• Steps to Deploy Azure Nodes with Microsoft HPC Pack

• Troubleshoot Deployments of Azure Nodes with Microsoft HPC Pack

• Deploying Applications to Azure Nodes in a Windows HPC Cluster

• Security Considerations for Using Azure Nodes in a Windows HPC Cluster

• Best Practices for Large Deployments of Azure Nodes with Microsoft HPC Pack

Additional resources

• Microsoft Azure resources for Big Compute

• Set up a Hybrid Cluster with Microsoft HPC Pack (tutorial)

• Burst to Azure Batch with Microsoft HPC Pack