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ArcBox 3.0 - Added section on Azure Update Manager #351

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## Overview

ArcBox for IT Pros is a special "flavor" of ArcBox that is intended for users who want to experience Azure Arc-enabled servers capabilities in a sandbox environment.

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![Screenshot showing ArcBox architecture diagram](./arch_itpro.png)

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## ArcBox Azure Consumption Costs

ArcBox resources generate Azure Consumption charges from the underlying Azure resources including core compute, storage, networking and auxillary services. Note that Azure consumption costs vary depending the region where ArcBox is deployed. Be mindful of your ArcBox deployments and ensure that you disable or delete ArcBox resources when not in use to avoid unwanted charges. Please see the [Jumpstart FAQ](../../faq/) for more information on consumption costs.

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## Deployment Options and Automation Flow

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ArcBox uses an advanced automation flow to deploy and configure all necessary resources with minimal user interaction. The previous diagrams provide an overview of the deployment flow. A high-level summary of the deployment is:

- User deploys the Bicep template (main.bicep). These objects contain several nested objects that will run simultaneously.
- ClientVM ARM template/plan - deploys the Client Windows VM. This is the Hyper-V host VM where all user interactions with the environment are made from.

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- Storage account template/plan - used for staging files in automation scripts
- Management artifacts template/plan - deploys Azure Log Analytics workspace and solutions and Azure Policy artifacts
- User remotes into Client Windows VM, which automatically kicks off multiple scripts that:
- Deploy and configure five (5) nested virtual machines in Hyper-V
- Windows Server 2022 VM - onboarded as Azure Arc-enabled server

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- Windows Server 2019 VM - onboarded as Azure Arc-enabled server

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- Windows VM running SQL Server - onboarded as Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server (as well as Azure Arc-enabled server)

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- 2 x Ubuntu VM - onboarded as Azure Arc-enabled servers

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- Deploy an Azure Monitor workbook that provides example reports and metrics for monitoring ArcBox components

## Prerequisites
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- Login to AZ CLI using the *`az login`* command.

- Ensure that you have selected the correct subscription you want to deploy ArcBox to by using the *`az account list --query "[?isDefault]"`* command. If you need to adjust the active subscription used by Az CLI, follow [this guidance](https://learn.microsoft.com/cli/azure/manage-azure-subscriptions-azure-cli#change-the-active-subscription).

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- ArcBox must be deployed to one of the following regions. **Deploying ArcBox outside of these regions may result in unexpected results or deployment errors.**

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- Korea Central
- Southeast Asia

- **ArcBox for IT Pros requires 16 DSv5-series vCPUs** when deploying with default parameters such as VM series/size. Ensure you have sufficient vCPU quota available in your Azure subscription and the region where you plan to deploy ArcBox. You can use the below Az CLI command to check your vCPU utilization.

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```shell
az vm list-usage --location <your location> --output table
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![Screenshot showing Azure Monitor workbook usage](./workbook.png)

### Azure Update Manager

Azure Update Manager is a unified service to help manage and govern updates for all your machines. You can monitor Windows and Linux update compliance across your deployments in Azure, on-premises, and on the other cloud platforms from a single dashboard. Using Azure Update Manager, you can make updates in real-time or schedule them within a defined maintenance window.

As part of the ArcBox deployment, Periodic Assessment is configured.

Periodic Assessment is a setting on your machine that enables you to see the latest updates available for your machines and removes the hassle of performing assessment manually every time you need to check the update status. Once you enable this setting, Azure Update Manager fetches updates on your machine once every 24 hours.

As part of the deployment, one on-demand assessment triggered.

This means any available updates can be viewed immidiately after a successful deployment when navigating to the Updates-blade for the hybrid machines.

Example from Linux machine:

![Screenshot showing available updates for Linux machine](./azure-update-manager-1.png)

Example from Windows machine:

![Screenshot showing available updates for Windows machine](./azure-update-manager-2.png)

### Arc-enabled SQL Server - Best practices assessment

As part of the ArcBox deployment, SQL Server best practices assessment is configured and run. Open _ArcBox-SQL_ Arc-enabled SQL Server resource from the resource group deployed or Azure Arc service blade to view SQL Server best practice assessment results.
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The following tools are including on the _ArcBox-Client_ VM.

- Chocolatey
- WinGet
- Visual Studio Code
- Putty
- 7zip
- Git
- Windows Terminal
- PowerShell 7

### Next steps

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