One of the technology evolution underway in the enterprise is the transition to hybrid resources. Most enterprise organizations are no longer running all resources on-premises. Instead, they run quite a few resources in public cloud environments, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service environments (SaaS). One of the exciting developments coming from cloud environments like Microsoft Azure is the ability to run “cloud” resources on-premises. With Azure Arc VM management, organizations can do just that.
What is Azure Arc?
Before we look at the specific Azure Arc VM management capabilities, what is Azure Arc in general? Azure Arc is a new solution from Microsoft that bridges the gap between on-premises environments and Microsoft Azure. Instead of IT departments having one set of tools for on-premises and another for the cloud, Azure Arc extends the Azure control plane to on-premises resources, allowing teams to use the same tools for both.
The Microsoft Azure control plane is known as Azure Resource Manager (ARM). Any interactions with Azure via the Azure portal, PowerShell, SDKs, or connecting to Azure APIs interact with the Azure Resource Manager. Azure Arc allows onboarding on-premises resources or even resources in other public cloud environments into Microsoft Azure and managing and configuring these resources as if they are native Microsoft Azure resources.
The advantage of Azure Arc is it allows organizations to have a single management and control plane with the same management tools and automation capabilities found with native Azure resources, no matter if these are on-premises or in another public cloud environment.
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