>> Hello there, and thank you very much for joining us
today in this new Azure Portal How To Video. Today we
learn how to get started Azure Arc in the Azure Portal.
And for that, we have Linda Hong, who’s going to show us
how to do that. So, thank you very much for joining us
today, Linda.
>> Thank you for having me. It's great to be here. I did
want to preface with just some context about what Azure
Arc is for the folks at home. So, Azure Arc is basically a set
of offerings that allow you to bring Azure management
anywhere. And you can
basically take resources that don't
run on Azure like Kubernetes clusters or virtual machines
or what have you and bring them into Azure us familiar
tools and management to take care of them.
>> That's awesome. Let's see these.
>> Yeah, we'll check that out.
When you're first starting
out with Azure Arc, you'll likely
want to find more information to start evaluating it as a
solution for your business. Through search, we surfaced
several results. Solution
specific views, if you're ready to
jump in or the Arc center if you're looking for
understanding Azure Arc all up or comprehensive views of
all Arc resources. The Arc center helps you find everything
Azure Arc related in one spot, so you can read the latest
documentation, stay up to date with new releases, start to
bring your hybrid edge or
multi-cloud resources into Azure,
and even manage them.
One of the first places you're likely to want to go is our
documentation, where you can learn more about Azure Arc
as well as use of installation guides. You can keep an eye
out for our blue learn more links to get directed into
specific articles or head to additional resources tab where
we've compiled useful links for you. We have our
documentation hub, our
jumpstart repo, relevant training
and demos, and hybrid architecture examples. Our
jumpstart repo is a great place to get started with Arc,
especially if you're looking to go zero to hero really
quickly and if UI isn't really your thing.
Updates is where you'll be able to keep tabs on our latest
new releases. You'll be able to learn about new
functionality available for Azure Arc technology as soon as
we announce it.
Here is where you find pricing information. You come here
to learn how pricing in Azure Arc works and how much you
can expect to spend using it. We also include a link to our
handy dandy Azure pricing calculator to help with
estimations here, especially where other Azure services
are involved.
Now for the big question, how do I actually get started?
Look no further. We're going to head over to overview.
Our infrastructure tab. Within Arc Center, we provide a
catalog of the Azure Arc
infrastructure offerings that you're
able to leverage. You can sign up for some of our previews
to get access to the latest in development before it's
released to the public. These items have a preview tag
appended to them, and if you don't see them, don't worry.
It just means you're not signed up for our previews just yet.
We have the same catalog view for our data services, so
these are all of our Azure Arc enabled data services.
If I click into servers, I'm
taken to a create, which will help
me bring my on-prem VM into Azure for management.
This page walks me through a bunch of prerequisites that I
need to make sure I have squared away before proceeding.
On this page, I'm just asked to provide a little bit of
information, which I'm happy to do. And here the cool
thing is that I can optionally use these physical location
tags to represent where this resource lives outside of
Azure. I'm going to put this in my fictional Boston data
center, just as an example.
And next, here I basically can download and run this script
to complete the connection process connecting my
on-premises VM to Azure for management.
Pretty simple.
To view the resource I just created and many others, I can
head to my Azure Arc
resources view. Here I can sort by
type. I can filter on location. For example, if I want to see
the machines that live inside Massachusetts,
voila, I can even add columns or remove columns to
unclutter my view. Here I'm just going to add state so that
I can see that all of these live in Massachusetts.
Pretty neat.
I also have resource specific views at my disposal. If we
head to the servers’ view, this shows me all of the servers
within the subscriptions that I have selected that I have
access to. I can click into a specific one to inspect it and
make any modifications or changes that I'd like to.
Once you get your services set up, you'll probably interact
with them directly from the spots that you'd normally
expect to in Azure. For example, you'll likely actually
manage ARC servers from the ARC servers page.
Arc server. There we go. As an example, this is the same
ARC server specific view that we just seen within Arc
Center with all the same functionality available, we can
add, we can manage the view, edit the columns, all the
same stuff. Same view, just a different place. Thank you.
>> Thank you very much, Linda. This was great.
Thanks every one of you for watching. Please try this out
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