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Azure Administration: Deploy and Manage Virtual Machines

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Explore the fundamentals of virtual machine configuration and management in Azure, in this hands-on course designed for experienced Azure administrators.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Azure VM management
  • What you should know
1. Azure VM Basics
  • Create an Azure VM
  • Create an Azure VM with a preset configuration
  • Connect to a Windows virtual machine
  • Connect to a Linux virtual machine
2. Architecture
  • Understand VM availability options
  • Choose a VM's architecture and size
  • Work with spot instances
  • Reserve VM capacity
  • Create proximity placement groups
3. Security and Identity
  • Choose a VM's security type
  • Assign port rules to a VM
  • Create managed identities
  • Connect a VM to the AD
  • Grant an Azure AD user logon permission
4. Storage
  • Create and attach a new disk
  • Attach an existing disk
5. Virtual Machine Management, Maintenance, and Protection
  • Enable disaster recovery
  • Virtual machine patching and hot patching
  • Shut down virtual machines automatically
  • Boot diagnostics and alerting
  • VM tagging
6. Networking
  • Create a virtual network
  • Create a subnet
  • Create a public IP address
  • Create a virtual network firewall
  • Create firewall rules
7. Applications and Customization
  • Deploy VM extensions
  • Instal applications on Azure VMs
8. Working with VMs
  • Start, stop, and restart VMs
  • Make a configuration change to a VM
  • Monitoring VM performance
  • Create alert rules
  • Back up a virtual machine
  • Restore a VM backup
  • Monitor VM patching
  • Use Azure Advisor to check best practice compliance
  • Examine the VM topology map
  • Where to learn more
  • Delete a VM
Conclusion
  • Where to learn more

Taught by

Sharon Bennett

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