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An energy company operates wind farms with local edge servers running Windows Server. The company wants to manage and monitor these physical servers from the Azure portal and apply standard Azure Policy definitions, without migrating the workloads to the cloud. Which Azure service enables this management?

  1. Azure ArcAnswer
  2. B
    Azure Stack Hub
  3. C
    Azure Lighthouse
  4. D
    Azure Automation

Answer

Azure Arc
The correct answer is Azure Arc because it allows organizations to project their on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud resources into Azure Resource Manager, enabling unified management, monitoring, and policy enforcement via the Azure portal.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the scenario requirements: the company needs to manage and apply governance policies to physical servers located outside of Azure (on-premises/edge) from the Azure portal without migrating them.
The requirement points to extending Azure Resource Manager (ARM) control plane capabilities to non-Azure infrastructure.
This rules out basic migration services and identifies the need for hybrid control plane extension.
2
Select the Azure hybrid service that projects external resources (such as servers, Kubernetes clusters, and SQL databases) into Azure as native resources.
Azure Arc is identified as the service designed to onboard and govern non-Azure resources natively.
Azure Arc maps external servers to Azure Resource Manager, allowing policies and monitoring to be applied directly.

Key Concept

Azure Arc acts as a bridge to extend the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) control plane to resources that reside outside of Azure.
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