Microsoft Azure Operations Management

Operations Management Overview

• Azure Management: Monitor - Configure - Govern - Secure - Protect - Migrate
• Workspaces
• Pricing
• Connecting Machines

Azure Automation

Azure Automation provides process automation and configuration management to OMS. It automates manual processes and helps to enforce configurations for physical and virtual computers.

• PowerShell Desired State Configuration
• Azure Runbooks

Azure Update Management

The Update Management solution in OMS allows you to manage operating system security updates for your Windows and Linux computers deployed in Azure, on-premises environments, or other cloud providers. You can quickly assess the status of available updates on all agent computers and manage the process of installing required updates for servers.

• OMS Agent for Windows and Linux
• Data Collection and Update Assessments
• Create Update Deployment
• Install Updates

Azure Backup

Azure Backup provides data backup and restore services for OMS. It protects your application data and retains it for years without any capital investment and with minimal operating costs.

• Recovery Services Vault
• Backup Policies
• Azure VM Backup
• Azure File Share Backup
• Windows Server Backup
• Azure Backup Server
• Backup SQL Database in Azure VM

Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery provides business continuity by orchestrating replication of on-premises virtual and physical machines to Azure, or to a secondary site. If your primary site is unavailable, you fail over to the secondary location so that users can keep working, and fail back when systems return to working order.

• Site Recovery Overview
• Azure to Azure Replication
• Replication of Hyper-V virtual machines to Azure
• Replication of VMware virtual machines to Azure
• Recovery Plans

Azure Migration Center

Whether you are transferring data, migrating infrastructure, or modernizing apps, Azure offers the help you need. With the Azure Migration Center you can start migration of your VMs or databases in three easy steps: discover, migrate, optimize.

• Virtual Machine Migration
• Database Migration

Azure Monitoring and Log Analytics

Performance issues in your cloud app can impact your business. With multiple interconnected components and frequent releases, degradations can happen at any time. Having a holistic view of your application and infrastructure is key to monitoring your Azure environment. Log Analytics provides monitoring services for OMS by collecting data, like events, performance data, … from managed resources into a central repository. Once collected, the data is available for alerting, analysis, and export.

• Service Health
• Azure Advisor
• Azure Monitor
• Metrics and Alerts
• Azure Activity Log
• Application Insights
• Network Monitoring
• Log Analytics

Azure Security

Azure Security Center provides unified security management and advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads. With Security Center, you can apply security policies across your workloads, limit your exposure to threats, and detect and respond to attacks.

• Azure Security Center
• Configure Security Policies
• Protect Your Resources
• Respond to Incidents
• Just in Time VM Access

Azure Policy

IT Governance ensures that your organization is able to achieve its goals through an effective and efficient use of IT. It does this by creating clarity between your business goals and IT projects. Azure Policy is a service in Azure that you use to create, assign and, manage policies. These policies enforce different rules and effects over your resources, so those resources stay compliant with your corporate standards and service level agreements.

• Azure Governance
• Policy Definitions
• Policy Assignment