Software inventory and agentless dependency analysis generally available with Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate’s at-scale, software inventory and agentless dependency analysis is now generally available for VMware virtual machines. You can inventory installed applications, roles and features and perform dependency analysis on discovered Windows & Linux servers without installing any agents. Agentless dependency analysis helps you identify and understand dependencies across servers and supports dependency data collection for up to 1000 servers concurrently.
These features will help you build high confidence migration plans to Azure by grouping related servers together.
Private DNS integration zone integration for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server in public preview
With the integration of private DNS zone configuration within Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server, you can easily establish connectivity between two Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Servers or from customer applications using a flexible server name (fully qualified domain name) within locally and globally peered virtual networks. When creating a new Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server in a virtual network, you can now use an existing private DNS zone or create a new one. This allows you to leverage existing secure Azure infrastructure to connect to an Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server.
General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier for backups of SQL Server in Azure VMs
We can now retain your backups for a longer duration in a cost-effective manner using Azure Backup’s archive tier for our Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines. Alongside moving your long-term retention (LTR) points to the low-cost archive tier, we can also perform restores from archive tier using a simplified integrated approach.
With this change, Backup Storage, the place where all our backup data in vaults go to, has 2 tiers – namely Vault-Standard and Vault-Archive. When moving our backup data from vault-standard to vault-archive, Azure Backup converts your forever incremental data into full backups. This may result in increasing overall GB of usage, but the costs will reduce because of the huge difference per GB between the two tiers. To simplify this balance, Azure Backup provides a set of recommended Recovery Points (RPs) that can be moved to vault-archive tier and achieve optimal savings.
VMware Site Recovery Manager is now generally available for Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) customers are now be able to take advantage of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for disaster recovery scenarios including; On-premise VMware to AVS, and Primary AVS to Secondary AVS private cloud environments.
Built-in Azure Policy support for Network Watcher Traffic Analytics
Traffic Analytics is an Azure-native solution that allows us to get insights about the Azure Virtual Network flows originated by or targeted to our applications. For example, identifying network activity hot spots, security threats or network usage patterns is made very easy by navigating over the several ready-made Traffic Analytics dashboards. This solution depends on Network Security Group (NSG) Flow Logs to generate these insights..