Azure Stack Development Toolkit (Azure Stack single node PoC) is for testing and development purposes. It can be downloaded from http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack.

After downloading the ZIP file, it needs to be extracted and will provide you the Azure-Stack VHDX (CloudBuilder.vhdx). This is the main basis for all Azure Stack, you will have to boot it from an existing Hyper-V environment.

The installation will be split in three main steps:

• Downloading Azure Stack tools
• Preparation for booting into the CloudBuilder.vhdx
• Installation Azure Stack natively within the CloudBuilder.vhdx