What an early Christmas present! Yesterday Microsoft has released the hardware requirements for the upcoming Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview.
What other informations get we beside the hardware requirements? That the Azure Stack Technical Preview will be a single box installation.
Our goal is to enable you to experience the Azure Stack Technical Preview in a single server, instantiated as a Proof-of-Concept (POC) environment.
Now have a look at the requirements and prepare the hardware!
| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
| CPU | Dual-Socket: 12 Physical Cores | Dual-Socket: 16 Physical Cores |
| Memory | 96 GB RAM | 128 GB RAM |
| BIOS | Hyper-V Enabled (with SLAT support) | Hyper-V Enabled (with SLAT support) |
| NIC | Windows Server 2012 R2 Certification required for NIC, no specialized features required | Windows Server 2012 R2 Certification required for NIC, no specialized features required |
| OS | 1 OS disk with minimum of 200 GB available for system partition (SSD or HDD) | 1 OS disk with minimum of 200 GB available for system partition (SSD or HDD) |
| DATA | 4 disks. Each disk provides a minimum of 140 GB of capacity (SSD or HDD). | 4 disks. Each disk provides a minimum of 140 GB of capacity (SSD or HDD). |
For more details about the storage configuration have a look here.