Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud

Empower cloud administrators with the essential skills to configure and deploy efficient private cloud infrastructures using Microsoft System Center 2012 R2, enhancing cloud management capabilities and service delivery.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Design high-level architectures for cloud environments.

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Implement and manage Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 technologies.

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Monitor and maintain cloud infrastructures efficiently.

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Automate cloud processes for increased business agility.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Cloud Administrators
  • IT Infrastructure Managers
  • Systems Engineers
  • Network Administrators

Description

This course equips students with the skills they require to configure and deploy a cloud using Microsoft System Center 2012 R2. Using hands-on labs, students learn the following:

  • Produce a high-level design that accounts for requirements for cloud environments.
  • Configure and deploy the cloud fabric.
  • Configure a PXE server, an update server, and a software update baseline.
  • Configure Microsoft Server Application Virtualization (App-V) so that it can be used to sequence and deploy an application virtually.
  • Build the core components necessary for delivering services on the fabric.
  • Allocate resources to a cloud and grant access to a cloud.
  • Understand how to monitor clouds using Operations Manager.
  • Understand the tools necessary to extend and customize Operations Manager for cloud environments.
  • Set up, configure, and integrate the core components of Service Manager into a cloud fabric.
  • Configure a service catalog, and then publish it to the Self-Service Portal.
  • Gain the knowledge necessary to deploy and configure Data Protection Manager in a cloud.
  • Deploy and configure Orchestrator in a cloud, and then integrate it with other System Center components.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Planning for the Cloud

  1. Understanding Cloud Models

  2. Benefits for Deploying a Private Cloud

  3. Designing a Private Cloud Infrastructure

  4. Overview of Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

  5. Overview of System Center 2012 R2 Components

  6. Deploying Hyper-V Clustering with VMM

Module 2: Configuring and Deploying the Private Cloud

  1. Overview of VMM Architecture and Components

  2. Configuring Advanced Networking in VMM

  3. Installing and Upgrading VMM

  4. Configuring VMM Security and Roles

  5. Understanding Host Groups

Module 3: Extending and Maintaining Cloud Infrastructure

  1. Overview of the PXE and Update Server Roles

  2. Deploying Bare-Metal Hyper-V Host Servers

  3. Configuring the Update Server Role

  4. Creating and Using an Update Baseline

Module 4: Configuring Application Delivery

  1. Dynamic Application Deployment Overview

  2. Web Deployment Packages

  3. Server Application Virtualization Overview

  4. Configuring Server App-V Components

  5. Sequencing and Deploying Virtual Applications

Module 5: Creating the Private Cloud Building Blocks

  1. Configuring Guest Operating System Profiles

  2. Configuring Hardware Profiles

  3. Configuring SQL Server Using SQL Server Profiles

  4. Configuring Application Profiles

  5. Configuring Virtual Machine Templates

  6. Configuring Service Provider Foundation

  7. Configuring User Roles

Module 6: Deploying and Configuring Access to a Private Cloud

  1. Understanding Private Cloud Computing

  2. Installing and Configuring App Controller

  3. Creating and Managing Service Templates

Module 7: Monitoring Cloud Infrastructure

  1. Operations Manager Architecture and Security

  2. Operations Manager Installation Considerations

  3. Configuring User Roles and Notifications

  4. Configuring Management Packs

  5. Configuring Integration with System Center 2012 R2

Module 8: Extending and Customizing Monitoring

  1. Configuring System Center Advisor

  2. Configuring the SharePoint Server Portal

  3. Monitoring Templates

  4. Distributed Application Monitoring

Module 9: Implementing Service Management for the Cloud

  1. Service Manager Architecture Overview

  2. Upgrading to System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager

  3. Understanding Service Manager Work Items

  4. Configuring Service Manager Connectors

  5. Configuring Service Manager Notifications

Module 10: Configuring High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Protection

  1. Planning for Azure Site Recovery

  2. Planning DPM Deployment

  3. DPM Architecture and Components

  4. Upgrading DPM

  5. Configuring DPM for the Private Cloud

  6. Configuring Application Protection for a Cloud

  7. Restoring Applications to the Cloud

Module 11: Automating and Standardizing a Cloud

  1. Orchestrator Architecture and Components Overview

  2. Deploying and Configuring Core Components

  3. Managing Runbooks

  4. Configuring Integration Packs

Module 12: Configuring a Self-Service Multi-Tenant Cloud

  1. Configuring the Windows Azure Pack

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