Preparing on-premises machines for Azure Arc enabled servers

This book is designed to provide complete knowledge and hands-on blend; that is, you will see a lot of implementation steps and example deployments. To prepare for that, please follow the steps from Chapter 1, Azure Arc Overview, to prepare your Azure accounts in advance.

In this section, we'll create the required Azure infrastructure to simulate the on-premises environments for Azure Arc enabled servers. If you have an on-premises infrastructure, you may use that as well rather than hosting everything in Azure.

Getting the virtualization environment ready

We will begin by deploying the Hyper-V Infrastructure in our Azure subscription, which we can create by following the steps in Chapter 1, Azure Arc Overview.

Hyper-V is Microsoft's physical server virtualization offering. It allows you to deploy and consume VM, generally referred to as virtual machines. Each virtual machine behaves like a complete...