Summary
In this chapter, we expanded our knowledge of Azure Arc enabled servers by looking at the additional management capabilities that are available for Microsoft SQL servers hosted on Windows or Linux machines running outside Azure. First, we looked at how we can onboard SQL servers running outside Azure-to-Azure Arc. We enabled a SQL health assessment for our on-premises databases and reviewed the recommendations. Later, we enabled advanced data security with Azure Security Center and looked at several recommendations provided by the platform. This helped us gain expertise in not only Azure Arc enabled PostgreSQL but Arc enabled data services as a whole. Overall, this has laid a solid foundation for our next chapter.
In the next chapter, we will continue looking at Azure Arc enabled data services and explore deploying and managing SQL Managed Instances through Azure Arc.