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Azure Local documentation

Azure Local is a distributed infrastructure solution enabled by Azure Arc that lets you run virtual machines, containers, and select Azure services.

About Azure Local

Overview

  • What is Azure Local?

What's new

  • What's new in Azure Local?
  • Small Form Factor (preview)
  • Azure Local disconnected operations (preview)

Deploy

Deploy

  • 1. Download the software
  • 2. Install the OS
  • 3. Register with Arc
  • 4A. Deploy via the portal
  • 4B. Deploy via ARM template

Update and Upgrade

How-To Guide

  • About updates
  • Update via Azure portal
  • About upgrades
  • Upgrade OS
  • Upgrade solution

Deploy workloads

Deploy

  • Deploy Azure Kubernetes Service clusters
  • Run Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Run Azure Local VMs enabled by Azure Arc

Manage

How-To Guide

  • Manage at-scale
  • Add node
  • Repair node
  • Manage Azure Local VMs enabled by Azure Arc
  • Manage SDN Multisite

Monitor

Overview

  • What is Azure Local monitoring?

How-To Guide

  • Monitor via Insights
  • Enable Insights at-scale
  • Azure Monitor Metrics
  • Health alerts

Try it out

Overview

  • Deploy Arc gateway (preview)
  • Deploy using local identity with Key Vault (preview)
  • Manage GPU via partitioning (preview)
  • Migrate VMware (preview)

Concepts

Concept

  • Network reference patterns overview
  • Security features
  • Observability

Troubleshoot

How-To Guide

  • Collect logs
  • Troubleshoot deployment issues
  • Get support
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