Azure Hybrid: Azure Arc Workshop

Cloud-first hybrid management Simplify the management of complex and distributed environments across private & public clouds, datacenters, and edge. Azure Arc finally brings cloud first hybrid management to micro-, data and traditional services - with a focus on standardization, interoperability, and compliancy - allowing you to have the insights and management capabilities using the central Azure control plane. This 3-day workshop will change the way you look at hybrid, multicloud and on-premises. With Azure Hybrid solutions, especially Azure Arc, you’ll modernize your infrastructure management and daily operation processes with ease.

WORKSHOP Overview & Workload assessment – Day 1

• Introduction in Azure Hybrid products and solutions (including demo)
• Integration with Azure Arc / How to on-board
• Discussion about your infrastructure situation / operation processes
• Identifying servers / workloads (wherever they are running)
• Defining use cases / agent deployments

Deep dive & Use Case definitions – Day 2

• Automated Azure Arc Agent (and other needed agents) to your servers
• Setting up Log Analytics Workspace(s)
• Activation of Azure Arc services
• Azure Update Management: Server Patching Cycles
• Defender for Cloud: Service Activation / Configuring
• Azure Policy: know your possibilities
• Log Analytics: Power Queries
• Inventory / Change tracking: server software inventory / change tracking
• Azure monitor: Setting up alerts / dashboards / insights

Implementation overview – Day 3

• Based on the workshop outcomes, the customer will get an implementation overview document where the goals and next steps are defined.