Azure Arc

Introduction

Azure Arc allows you to extend Azure’s management capabilities to hybrid environments, including on-premises datacenters and third-party clouds. With Azure Arc, you can manage and configure Windows and Linux servers, as well as Kubernetes clusters hosted outside of Azure. Additionally, Azure Arc enables you to bring Azure data services into hybrid setups. These features help organizations like Contoso streamline management of their complex, distributed environments.

Use Cases

Discovery Use Cases

• Discovers Azure Stack HCI and its workloads running on-premises, connected to the Azure cloud via Azure Arc.
• Publishes resource relationships to enable a topological view, simplifying maintenance.

Monitoring Use Cases

• Provides metrics for job scheduling time, status, and more.
• Generates concern alerts for each metric to notify administrators of issues with the resource.

Integration Approach OpsRamp integrates with Azure Arc by leveraging Azure portal APIs and Azure AKS CLI.

Supported Target Versions

Hierarchy of Azure Arc

The application can discover the following Azure Arc related resources.

• Azure Tenant
  • Azure Stack HCI cluster
    • Azure Stack HCI Node
    • Azure Arc Machine
    • Azure Kubernetes Cluster
    • Azure Arc Application Group
    • Azure Arc Virtual Desktop
    • Azure Arc Host Pool

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