Essential Skills Gained

Design hybrid solutions integrating on-premises infrastructure with Azure IaaS and PaaS services.

Implement Azure Compute, Storage, and Networking solutions in a hybrid environment.

Develop hands-on skills through labs to deploy and manage Azure resources effectively.

Understand the integration of Azure monitoring and management for on-premises operations.

Format

Instructor-led
3 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

IT professionals experienced in on-premises virtualization technologies
Windows and Linux administrators migrating workloads to the cloud
DevOps personnel deploying hybrid cloud solutions
Administrators implementing Azure-based network connectivity

Description

This 3-day instructor-led course covers a range of components, including Azure Compute, Azure Storage, and network services that customers can benefit from when deploying hybrid solutions. In this context, the term hybrid means integrating infrastructure technologies that customers host in on-premises datacenters with Azure IaaS and PaaS services. This course offers an overview of these services, providing the knowledge necessary to design hybrid solutions properly. It also includes a number of demonstrations and labs that enable students to develop hands-on skills that are necessary when implementing such solutions.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Azure

Overview of cloud computing and Azure
Overview of the Azure deployment models
Lab: Use Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, and Microsoft Visual Studio to deploy and manage Azure resources
Describe Microsoft Azure and its most common management.
Describe the primary characteristics of Azure Resource Manager and classic deployment models.

Module 2: Integrating with Azure Compute services

Overview of Azure virtual machines and Azure cloud services
Migrating workloads to Azure virtual machines by using virtual machine images and disks
Extending HPC workloads to Azure
Integrating compute workloads by using containers and Azure Service Fabric
Lab: Uploading an on-premises virtual disk file to Azure
Lab: Moving containers between on-premises Hyper V virtual machines and Azure virtual machines

Module 3: Integrating with Microsoft Azure virtual networks

Overview of Azure Virtual Network Service
Extending on-premises networks to Azure
Lab: Implementing a point-to-site VPN by using Azure Resource Manager

Module 4: Integrating with Azure Storage and data services

Overview of Azure Storage and data services
Implementing Azure Backup for on-premises workloads
Lab: Implementing the Azure Recovery Services agent-based backups

Module 5: Designing and implementing Azure Site Recovery solutions

Overview of Site Recovery
Planning for Site Recovery
Implementing Site Recovery with Azure as the disaster recovery site
Lab: Implementing protection of on-premises Hyper-V virtual machines in Azure by using Site Recovery

Module 6: Designing and implementing cross-premises applications

Overview of cross-premises application capabilities and their design considerations
Implementing cross-premises solutions for desktop, web, and mobile apps
Lab: Implementing Traffic Manager

Module 7: Integrating operations and application monitoring and management

Overview of the cross-premises monitoring and management capabilities of Microsoft Azure
Implementing cross-premises Azure monitoring and management solutions
Lab: Implementing Azure Automation

Implementing On-premise Core Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure