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Azure Arc-enabled VMware vSphere receives new features and enhancements on an ongoing basis. This article provides an overview of the recent developments, which are common to both on-premises VMware and Azure VMware Solution private clouds.
June 2025
- Ability to customize guest operating system settings while creating Windows virtual machines.
May 2025
- Installation of the Arc agent on Linux machines using SSH-based authentication.
January 2025
- Windows Server Management for VMware VMs with active Windows Server Software Assurance licenses, giving you cost benefits on Azure Update Manager, Azure Change Tracking, and Inventory billing and exclusive capabilities.
October 2024
- Ability to install Arc agents at-scale on VMware VMs using out-of-band methods such as:
- Service principal
- System Center Configuration Manager script
- System Center Configuration Manager custom task sequence
- Group policy
- Ansible playbook
September 2024
- Terraform templates based VM management (AzAPI provider)
- Bicep templates based VM management
- ARM templates based VM management
August 2024
- Python SDK based VM management
- Java SDK based VM management
- JavaScript SDK based VM management
- .NET SDK based VM management
- Go SDK based VM management
June 2024
- Azure-CLI based VM management
- Azure REST APIs based VM management
- Azure PowerShell based VM management
April 2024
- Support to install Arc agent over private endpoints on VMware VMs at-scale.
March 2024
- Public preview of Azure Kubernetes Service on VMware.
February 2024
- Rollout in five new regions:
- East Asia
- Japan East
- North Central US
- UK West
- Central India
November 2023 (General Availability)
- Ability to link VMs with Arc agent installed to leverage self-service lifecycle and power cycle management.
- Procurement and delivery of Extended Security Updates for Windows Server and SQL server Arc-enabled VMware/AVS VMs.
- Microsoft-managed upgrade support for Azure Arc resource bridge.
September 2023
- Installation of the Arc agent at scale on VMware on-premises and Azure VMware Solution private cloud VMs.
- Support for Azure services to govern, protect, configure, and monitor Arc-enabled VMware/AVS VMs.
- Ability to recover the Azure Arc resource bridge in case of accidental deletion.
August 2023
- Manual upgrade support for Azure Arc resource bridge.
Next steps
- Plan your resource bridge deployment by reviewing the support matrix for Arc-enabled VMware vSphere.
- Once ready, connect VMware vCenter Server to Azure Arc by using the helper script.