Alec Becker
Product Manager, Microsoft
- Compile a checklist for creating a virtual machine
- Describe the options to create and manage virtual machines
- Describe the additional services available to administer virtual machines
Every week starting December 1, 2022 through June 22, 2023 (24 episodes)
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Introduction to Azure virtual machines
Learn about the decisions you make before creating a virtual machine, the options to create and manage the VM, and the extensions and services you use to manage your VM. In this episode, you will:
Create a Linux virtual machine in Azure
In this module, we discuss how to create a Linux virtual machine using the Azure portal. In this episode, you will:
- Understand the options that are available for virtual machines in Azure
- Create a Linux virtual machine using the Azure portal
- Connect to a running Linux virtual machine using SSH
- Install software and change the network configuration on a VM using the Azure portal
Choose the right disk storage for your virtual machine workload
Azure provides a variety of disk storage options for virtual machine workloads. Identify the features of capabilities of each type to ensure your application performs optimally. In this episode, you will:
- Identify the types of disk storage available to virtual machines
- Identify the capabilities of different disk storage
- Identify the use cases for each type of disk storage
Configure the network for your virtual machines
Learn how to configure networking in a secure way for your Azure virtual machines. In this episode, you will:
- Create an Azure Virtual Network
- Create an Azure VPN Gateway
- Learn to work with Azure ExpressRoute
Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts
Evaluate monitoring options for an Azure virtual machine (VM). Enable diagnostics to get data about your VM. View VM metrics in Azure Metrics Explorer. Create a metric alert to monitor performance. In this episode, you will:
- Identify metrics and diagnostic data that you can collect for virtual machines
- Configure monitoring for a virtual machine
- Use monitoring data to diagnose problems
Explore Azure Storage services and Create an Azure Storage account
In this module, you'll learn about some of the different storage options that are available in Azure Storage services, and the scenarios in which each storage option is appropriate. As you complete the individual units in this module, you'll learn about Azure Blob Storage, Azure Disk Storage, Azure Files, and Blob access tiers. Then, create an Azure Storage account with the correct options for your business needs. In this episode, you will:
- After completing this module, you'll be able to describe the benefits and usage of Azure Blob Storage, Azure Disk Storage, Azure Files, Azure Blob access tiers
- Decide how many storage accounts you need for your project
- Determine the appropriate settings for each storage account
- Create a storage account using the Azure portal
Access data from Azure Blob Storage by using multiple protocols
You can access your data from Azure Blob Storage by using different protocols such as representational state transfer (REST), Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Network File System (NFS), and Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). In this episode, you will:
- Differentiate between the available protocols that can access data from Azure Blob Storage.
- Explain the requirements for configuring each protocol.
- Create a storage account that users can access by using multiple protocols.
- Access data by using multiple protocols.
Introduction to Azure Firewall
Describe how Azure Firewall protects Azure Virtual Network resources, including the Azure Firewall features, rules, deployment options, and administration with Azure Firewall Manager. Then describe whether you can use Azure Firewall Manager to provide central security policy and route management for your cloud-based security perimeters. Evaluate whether Azure Firewall Manager can help secure your cloud perimeters. In this episode, you will:
- Explain how Azure Firewall and Azure Firewall Manager work together to protect Azure virtual networks.
- Evaluate whether Azure Firewall is the right solution to protect your Azure virtual networks from malicious incoming and outgoing traffic.
- Evaluate whether Azure Firewall Premium is the right solution to protect your Azure virtual networks from malicious incoming and outgoing traffic.
- Evaluate whether Azure Firewall Manager is the right solution for deploying policies across multiple firewalls.
- Evaluate how Azure Firewall Manager can address your cloud-based security needs.
- Describe how Azure Firewall Manager provides central security policy and route management for cloud-based security perimeters.
Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot your Azure Storage
Discover the tools available to detect and correct problems with your Azure Storage to enable your cloud storage infrastructure to operate at peak performance. In this episode, you will:
- Identify the tools used to troubleshoot issues with Azure Storage
- Identify the metrics and logs that can be used to troubleshoot and diagnose storage issues
Introduction to Azure NetApp Files
Describe how the low latency and high availability of Microsoft Azure NetApp Files work to provide on-premises-like performance for cloud workloads. Determine the types of file-based workloads that are suitable for migration to Azure NetApp Files. In this episode, you will:
- Evaluate whether Azure NetApp Files is appropriate for migrating and running your organization's file-based workloads.
- Describe how the performance tiers of Azure NetApp Files enable you to choose a performance level that fits your workload requirements.
Introduction to Azure DDoS Protection and to Azure Web Application Firewall
Learn how to guard your Azure services from a denial of service attack using Azure DDoS Protection. Then, describe how Azure Web Application Firewall protects Azure web applications from common attacks, including its features, how it's deployed, and its common use cases. In this episode, you will:
- Explain Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack types and the components of an effective DDoS response strategy.
- Compare the differences between Azure DDoS infrastructure protection and Azure DDoS Protection.
- Evaluate Azure DDoS Protection, its features, and architecture options and choose fundamental best practices to build DDoS-resilient services on Azure.
- Explain how Azure Web Application Firewall works to protect Azure web apps from known threats.
- Evaluate whether Azure Web Application Firewall is the right solution to protect your Azure web apps from malicious exploits.
- Identify and describe use cases for Azure Web Application Firewall.
Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
Use Azure Backup to help protect the data for on-premises servers, virtual machines, virtualized workloads such as SQL Server or SAP HANA running in Azure VMs, Azure file shares, and more. In this episode, you will:
- Identify the scenarios for which Azure Backup provides backup and restore capabilities
- Back up and restore an Azure virtual machine
Introduction to Linux and to open-source database migration on Azure
Discover the unique benefits of running Linux on Azure, and how to run Linux-based applications and workloads in the cloud with Azure. Then you'll learn about the issues and considerations for migrating on-premises open-source databases to Azure, the services that Azure provides to help you migrate your databases, and how to plan a migration. In this episode, you will:
- Differentiate between Linux on Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) computing, and the value of each
- Describe Azure tools and services that bring additional value to Linux workloads
- Explain the components of Linux virtual infrastructure in Azure, and the role of Microsoft in supporting different Linux distributions
- Describe the features and services available in Azure for hosting an open-source database.
- Explain the key considerations for implementing a migration project.
- Describe different approaches that you can take for migrating databases.
Configure virtual machine availability
Learn how to configure virtual machine availability including vertical and horizontal scaling. In this episode, you will:
- Implement availability sets and availability zones.
- Implement update and fault domains.
- Implement Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
- Autoscale virtual machines.
Optimize performance and costs by using Azure Disk Storage
Azure Disk Storage offers a range of disk types and capabilities that you can use to optimize application performance and costs in specific scenarios. In this module, you'll learn more about how disk performance works and identify Azure Disk Storage capabilities and performance-scaling options. In this episode, you will:
- Learn about the disk types that are available in Azure
- Understand how disk performance works
- Discover performance-scaling options
Introduction to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Learn about what Azure virtual machine scale sets do, how they work, and when you should choose to use Azure virtual machine scale sets as a solution to meet your organization's needs. Then enable your application to automatically adjust to changes in load while minimizing costs with virtual machine scale sets. In this episode, you will:
- Learn what Azure virtual machine scale sets are and the functionality they provide
- Determine whether Azure virtual machine scale sets meet the needs of your organization
- Understand the difference between using virtual machine scale sets and scaling up individual instances
- Identify the features and capabilities of virtual machine scale sets.
- Identify the use cases for running applications on virtual machine scale sets.
- Deploy an application on a virtual machine scale set.
Introduction to Azure Virtual Networks
You'll learn how to design and implement fundamental Azure Networking resources such as virtual networks, public and private IPs, DNS, virtual network peering, routing, and Azure Virtual NAT. In this episode, you will:
- Implement virtual networks
- Configure public IP services
- Design and implement name resolution
- Design and implement cross-VNET connectivity
- Implement virtual network routing
- Design and implement an Azure Virtual Network NAT
Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
Provide disaster recovery for your Azure infrastructure by managing and orchestrating replication, failover, and failback of Azure virtual machines with Azure Site Recovery. In this episode, you will:
- Protect Azure virtual machines with Azure Site Recovery
- Run a disaster recovery drill to validate protection
- Failover and failback your virtual machines
Configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync
Learn how to configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync. In this episode, you will:
- Identify storage for file shares and blob data.
- Configure Azure Files shares and file share snapshots.
- Identify features and usage cases of Azure File Sync.
- Identify Azure File Sync components and configuration steps.
Intro to confidential computing with Azure Virtual Machines
This module helps you understand Microsoft Azure confidential computing concepts for virtual machines, including confidential virtual machines and application enclaves, and which approach to use. In this episode, you will:
- Microsoft Azure confidential computing portfolio
- Approaches to enable confidential computing with virtual machines
- Major reasons to choose the best approach for your needs
Our Speakers and Moderators
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Amir Dahan
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
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Amit Nir
Technical Trainer, Microsoft
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Amy Colyer
Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
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Anaka Alankamony
Product Manager, Microsoft
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Ananya Garg
Product Manager, Microsoft
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Andrew Chen
Principal Group PM Manager, Microsoft
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Dinesh Murthy
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
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Erika Enomoto
Program Manager, Microsoft
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Hariram Thirukarugavur Ramesh
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Jacques Guibert de Bruet
Microsoft Technical Trainer, Microsoft
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Jerry Steele
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Jourdan Parham
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Karl Rautenstrauch
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Lily Chen
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Noah Wood
Product Manager, Microsoft
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Pierre Roman
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Terrence Yang
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Thomas Maurer
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Learning Resources
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Introduction to Azure virtual machines
Complete the Learn module
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Create a Linux virtual machine in Azure
Complete the Learn module
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Choose the right disk storage for your virtual machine workload
Complete the Learn module
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Configure the network for your virtual machines
Complete the Learn module
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Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts
Complete the Learn module
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Explore Azure Storage services and Create an Azure Storage account
Complete the Learn module
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Explore Azure Storage services and Create an Azure Storage account
Complete the Learn module (2)
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Access data from Azure Blob Storage by using multiple protocols
Complete the Learn module
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Introduction to Azure Firewall
Complete the Learn module
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Introduction to Azure Firewall
Complete the Learn module (2)
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Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot your Azure Storage
Complete the Learn module
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Introduction to Azure NetApp Files
Complete the Learn module
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Introduction to Azure DDoS Protection and to Azure Web Application Firewall
Complete the Learn module
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Introduction to Azure DDoS Protection and to Azure Web Application Firewall
Complete the Learn module (2)
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Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
Complete the Learn module
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Introduction to Linux and to open-source database migration on Azure
Complete the Learn module
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Introduction to Linux and to open-source database migration on Azure
Complete the Learn module (2)
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Configure virtual machine availability
Complete the Learn module
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Optimize performance and costs by using Azure Disk Storage
Complete the Learn module
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Introduction to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Complete the Learn module
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Introduction to Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Complete the Learn module (2)
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Introduction to Azure Virtual Networks
Complete the Learn module
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Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
Complete the Learn module
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Configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync
Complete the Learn module
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Intro to confidential computing with Azure Virtual Machines
Complete the Learn module
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