New features and changes to ArcGIS Enterprise on Microsoft Azure at this release are described in the following sections.
New or altered functionality in ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure
The following has changed in ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure at this release:
- You can include a GPU extension on federated raster analytics servers when you add one to an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment using Cloud Builder.
- Cloud Builder deployment logs are now written to C:\arcgis\DSCLogs on each Azure machine.
- The Esri Azure Marketplace images that Cloud Builder uses when creating deployments will include installation files for the following software, but the software is only installed if you include them in the deployments you create with Cloud Builder:
- ArcGIS GeoEvent Server
- ArcGIS Mission Server
- ArcGIS Notebook Server
- ArcGIS Web Adaptor (installed and used only on ArcGIS Notebook Server machines)
- ArcGIS Workflow Manager
Upgrades
Be aware of the following before you use ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure to upgrade an ArcGIS deployment:
- The ArcGIS Data Store tile cache data store is deprecated and will not be supported after 11.5. It will be upgraded to 11.5 with the rest of your deployment, and existing hosted scene layers will continue to function. To allow users to publish hosted scene layers to the upgraded deployment, though, you must register an object store. You must also migrate hosted scene layer caches from the tile cache data store to the object store after you upgrade.
- Although new deployments will not use Azure Files for the configuration store and content directory, existing deployments that use Azure Files will still use them, and they will continue to function after you upgrade.
- If the deployment includes an ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server site, you must remove it before you upgrade.
- If the deployment includes an ArcGIS Data Store graph store running in primary-standby mode, the standby machine is removed when you upgrade because primary-standby mode is no longer supported. After you upgrade, you can leave the graph store running in single-instance mode, or you can add two machines to it and set a backup location for it. This alters the graph store to run in cluster mode. Only three machines are supported for a graph store running in cluster mode.
- If the deployment includes the ArcGIS Data Store object store, it will be removed when you upgrade. You must add an object store in an Azure Blob Storage container after you upgrade.
The ArcGIS Data Store object store included with deployments created with Cloud Builder 11.3 and earlier only stored ephemeral data (feature query caches). The next time the feature services are queried after the deployment is upgraded, caches will be built in the new object store.
General changes
At each release, new versions of ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Microsoft Azure and the Esri images on Microsoft Azure Marketplace are available.
For information on bug fixes, see the 11.5 Issues Addressed List.