Azure Stack HCI Program is your roadmap for the Azure Stack HCI proof-of-concept. Depending on your POC approach a virtual or physical appliance is configured during the execution of the program. Connection to the cloud, Azure ARC for manageability and monitoring are the core configuration items. Workload specific scenarios like virtual machines, database or Kubernetes are part of the proof-of-concept to evaluate the services for your environment. 

The goal of this program is to assist customers in evaluating the Azure Stack HCI services. Hardware evaluations, cloud services that come local via the new landing zone in the datacenter and introducing new scenarios in cloud computing are part of this journey. IaaS, Azure virtual desktop, containerization workloads and so on are configurations in this POC that based on customer requirements to be able to evaluate the on premise cloud services.