Azure Arc

Azure Arc is a “hybrid management and governance tool” that supports physical and virtual machines. These hybrid servers can be on-premises, in provider edge locations, or hosted on other cloud providers’ platforms. This is represented in Figure 9.7:

Figure 9.7 – Azure Arc for servers

When connected in this way, a hybrid server becomes an Azure resource that can be “controlled,” “secured,” and “managed” the same as an Azure native VM.

Each hybrid machine is given an Azure resource ID allowing the machine to be added to a resource group and be managed by ARM; these Azure Arc-managed servers are classed as Arc-enabled servers.

To connect a Windows server to Azure Arc, an Azure Connected Machine agent is deployed and configured on the server. It should be noted that this does not replace the Azure Monitor agent for Windows servers; “both agents” are required...