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A financial company hosts its customer databases on several Linux servers in an on-premises datacenter. The company wants to enforce security compliance settings on these servers using Azure Policy and view their status in the Azure Portal, without migrating the workloads to Azure. Which Azure service should the company use to project these on-premises servers into Azure for centralized management?

  1. Azure ArcAnswer
  2. B
    Azure Policy
  3. C
    Azure Stack Hub
  4. D
    Azure ExpressRoute

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Azure Arc
Azure Arc is correct because it projects external resources (such as on-premises physical or virtual servers) into the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) fabric. Once projected, these resources can be managed, organized, and governed using Azure native services, including Azure Policy and Azure Monitor, without requiring migration.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the organization's requirements
The company needs to manage and apply Azure Policy to Linux servers located outside of Azure (on-premises) without migrating them.
This establishes that the solution must extend Azure's management plane to external resources.
2
Evaluate Azure services that bridge external resources to Azure Resource Manager
Azure Arc is identified as the service designed to extend Azure management and governance to on-premises, edge, and multi-cloud environments.
Azure Arc installs an agent on the external servers to represent them as resources within the Azure portal, enabling Azure Policy to be applied directly.

Key Concept

Azure Arc extends Azure governance, management, and services to on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments.
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