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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By : Steve Miles
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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

Written by an Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience in data center infrastructure, this AZ-800 study guide is an essential preparation tool for administrators who want to take the exam and acquire key skills that will help them thrive in their careers. This book will guide you through all the ways Windows Server can be used to manage hybrid solutions on-premises and in the cloud, starting with deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll then dive into managing virtual machines and containers and progress to implementing and managing an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure. The later parts of the book focus on managing storage and file services, concluding with a detailed overview of all the knowledge needed to pass the AZ-800 exam with practical examples throughout the chapters. In the final chapter, you’ll be able to test your understanding of the topics covered with the help of practice exams to make sure that you’re completely prepared for the contents and structure of the exam. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge, both practical and conceptual, that's required to administer Windows Server hybrid core infrastructure confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Hybrid Identity
6
Part 2: Hybrid Networking
9
Part 3: Hybrid Storage
12
Part 4: Hybrid Compute
18
Part 5: Exam Prep
19
Chapter 14: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

Implementing Azure Arc for hybrid Windows servers

Azure Arc is a hybrid management and governance tool that supports physical and virtual Windows servers. These hybrid servers can be on-premises, in provider edge locations, or hosted on other cloud provider’s platforms. This is represented in the following diagram:

Figure 13.9 – 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 the Azure Resource Manager (ARM); we class these Azure Arc-managed servers 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 (AMA) for Windows servers; both agents are required...