Merge pull request #17802 from v-sissondan/local-witness-scrub

Cloud witness supported only

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

azure-local/overview.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ms.topic: overview
 author: alkohli
 ms.author: alkohli
 ms.service: azure-local
-ms.date: 04/08/2025
+ms.date: 04/30/2025
 ms.custom: e2e-hybrid, linux-related-content
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@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Customers often choose Azure Local in the following scenarios.
 | Scale-out storage | Storage Spaces Direct is a core technology of Azure Local that uses industry-standard servers with locally attached drives to offer high availability, performance, and scalability. Using Storage Spaces Direct results in significant cost reductions compared with competing offers based on storage area network (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS) technologies. These benefits result from an innovative design and a wide range of enhancements, such as persistent read/write cache drives, mirror-accelerated parity, nested resiliency, and deduplication. |
 | Disaster recovery for virtualized workloads | A stretched cluster of Azure Local (functionality only available in Azure Stack HCI OS, version 22H2) provides automatic failover of virtualized workloads to a secondary site following a primary site failure. Synchronous replication ensures crash consistency of VM disks. |
 | Data center consolidation and modernization | Refreshing and consolidating aging virtualization hosts with Azure Local can improve scalability and make your environment easier to manage and secure. It's also an opportunity to retire legacy SAN storage to reduce footprint and total cost of ownership. Operations and systems administration are simplified with unified tools and interfaces and a single point of support. |
-| Branch office and edge | For branch office and edge workloads, you can minimize infrastructure costs by deploying two-node clusters with inexpensive witness options, such as Cloud Witness or a USB drive–based file share witness. Another factor that contributes to the lower cost of two-node clusters is support for switchless networking, which relies on crossover cable between cluster nodes instead of more expensive high-speed switches. Customers can also centrally view remote Azure Local deployments in the Azure portal. To learn more, see [Deploy branch office and edge on Azure Local](deploy/branch-office-edge.md). |
+| Branch office and edge | For branch office and edge workloads, you can minimize infrastructure costs by deploying two-node clusters with inexpensive witness options, such as a cloud witness. Another factor that contributes to the lower cost of two-node clusters is support for switchless networking, which relies on crossover cable between cluster nodes instead of more expensive high-speed switches. Customers can also centrally view remote Azure Local deployments in the Azure portal. To learn more, see [Deploy branch office and edge on Azure Local](deploy/branch-office-edge.md). |
 
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