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Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc

By : Amit Malik, Daman Kaur
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Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc

By: Amit Malik, Daman Kaur

Overview of this book

With all the options available for deploying infrastructure on multi-cloud platforms and on-premises comes the complexity of managing it, which is adeptly handled by Azure Arc. This book will show you how you can manage environments across platforms without having to migrate workloads from on-premises or multi-cloud to Azure every time. Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc starts with an introduction to Azure Arc and hybrid cloud computing, covering use cases and various supported topologies. You'll learn to set up Windows and Linux servers as Arc-enabled machines and get to grips with deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters with Azure Arc and GitOps. The book then demonstrates how to onboard an on-premises SQL Server infrastructure as an Arc-enabled SQL Server and deploy and manage a hyperscale PostgreSQL infrastructure on-premises through Azure Arc. Along with deployment, the book also covers security, backup, migration, and data distribution aspects. Finally, it shows you how to deploy and manage Azure's data services on your own private cloud and explore multi-cloud solutions with Azure Arc. By the end of this book, you'll have a firm understanding of Azure Arc and how it interacts with various cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes and PaaS data services.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
1
Section 1: Azure Arc Enabled Infrastructure
6
Section 2: Azure Arc Enabled Data Services
9
Section 3: Azure Arc Enabled Multi-Cloud Governance

Managing SQL Servers with Azure Arc

In this section, we will configure the SQL server assessment and advanced data security with Azure Arc.

Reviewing connected SQL Server state in the Azure portal

In the previous section, we onboarded a Windows Server 2019 based virtual machine hosting SQL Server 2019, which was running on Hyper-V to Azure Arc. Let's explore the management options available to us in the Azure portal for this connected server by taking the following steps:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal and navigate to SQL Servers - Azure Arc.
  2. Select your newly onboarded SQL Server.
  3. On the Overview blade, you will be able to see the current status of your Arc enabled server. The status displays if the server is currently Connected or Disconnected or in an unknown/error state, as you can see on the following screen:

    Figure 4.9 – Connected status of the Azure Arc server

  4. In the Settings pane, you will see the Environment Health pane and Properties...