Azure Administration (IAAS)

Introduction 

Ø What is a Cloud Computing? Cloud Characteristics
Ø Deployment Types
Ø Cloud Service’s Types
Ø Introduction to Various Cloud Platforms 

Brief Overview of Windows Azure IaaS Components 

Ø Overview on Management Portals.

      Classic

      Ibiza
Ø Overview on Various Azure Services.
Ø Azure IaaS V1 Vs Azure IaaS V2
Ø Terms to be familiarized in Azure

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals – VM’s 

Ø Azure Data Centre Architecture.

Ø Azure Internal by Mark Russinovich.
Ø Series of Virtual Machines available in Azure.

Ø Creating Virtual Machines.

      Attaching Data Disk.

      Capturing VM.

          With Syeprep Without Sysprep.

      Monitoring and Diagnosing VM.
Ø Azure Storage Types
Ø Data Import and Export Services to Azure Datacenter
Ø Virtual Machine Deployments

Ø RBAC

Infrastructure Service Networking 

Ø Virtual Networking on Azure.

Ø Address Space, CIDR
Ø VIP/DIP/PIP Addresses in a Virtual Network.
Ø Endpoint Configuration.
Ø Vnet-Vnet Connectivity.
Ø Point to Site Connectivity
Ø Site to Site Connectivity Overview.
Ø Multisite Connectivity Overview.

Ø Creating ACL's

Ø Creating routing table.

Ø Creating NSG rules between subnets and VM.

Ø Traffic Manager

Ø CDN Overview.

Ø Reserving Cloud Service IP.

Ø Load Balancer.

Azure storage:

 Ø what is Azure Storage?

Ø Azure Storage Services.

      BLOBS

      Tables

      Queues.

Ø Storage performance tiers.

      Standard storage.

      Premium storage.

Ø Premium Storage Features.

Ø Premium Storage Scalability and Performance Targets.

Ø Premium Storage Account Limits.

Ø Replication for Durability and High Availability

      Locally redundant storage (LRS). 

      Zone-redundant storage (ZRS).

      Geo-redundant storage (GRS).

      Read access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS).

Ø Transferring Data to and from Azure Storage.

      AzCopy

      Cloud Berry

      Azure Storage Explorer.

Ø Azure Storage Pricing.

Ø What is Azure File storage?

Ø Create and manage file share.

Ø Mount the file share from an Azure virtual machine running Windows.

Azure Resource Manager

Ø  Benefits of using Resource Manager

Ø  Azure Resource Manager vs. classic deployment

Ø  Understand deployment models and the state of your resources

Ø  Resource Manager Template walkthrough

Ø Template Deployment.

Cloud Services and Infrastructure Services

Ø Virtual Machines Availability Set for High Availability of Servers
Ø Load Balancing on Azure Virtual Machines
Ø Auto-Scaling
Ø Data Import and Export Services to Azure Datacentre Overview.

Azure Backup & Site Recovery

Ø Simple, automated protection
Ø Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud
Ø A simple and integrated solution
Ø Create a backup vault Backup agent
Ø Manage backup vaults and servers

Windows Azure Active Directory – Overview

Ø AD architecture options
Ø Integration of on Premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory
Ø Azure RMS
Ø Azure Domain services.

Troubleshooting VM problems.

Ø Unable to create VM.

Ø Unable to Restart VM.

Ø Unable to Connect to VM.

Ø VM performance is slow.

Frequently used Azure PowerShell commands and GitHUB

Ø Installing Azure PowerShell Module.

Ø Commands to help you get started.

Azure Automation

Ø RBAC in Automation Accounts

Ø Create new runbook

Ø Adding and executing activities to the runbook.

Introduction Azure PAAS:

 Ø Creating Azure Website and publishing Application.

Ø Creating WebApp through Cloud service.

       Web role.

       Worker Role.

Ø Integrating Web App to Azure AD.