WS-013T00
Azure Stack HCI Training
This three-day course is intended primarily for IT Professionals who already have significant experience with managing an on-premises Windows Server environment. Its purpose is to cover advanced topics related to Windows Server software-defined datacenter, Azure Stack HCI, and other Azure Stack products. The course also describes the use of existing Microsoft System Center products to implement and manage software-defined datacenters with Windows Server 2019. This course is advanced and is designed for people that want to run their virtual workloads on Windows Server 2019 at medium-to-large scale using software-defined datacenter and hyper-converged principles.
Course Details
Duration
3 days
Prerequisites
- Intermediate experience with managing Windows Server operating systems and Windows Server virtualized workloads in on-premises scenarios
- Intermediate experience with common Windows Server management tools (implied by the first prerequisite)
- Intermediate knowledge of core Microsoft compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies
- Intermediate knowledge of Windows Server–based compute and storage high-availability technologies
- Basic experience with implementing and managing Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services in Microsoft Azure
- Basic knowledge of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft virtualization security-related technologies
- Intermediate knowledge of PowerShell scripting and PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Target Audience
- IT professionals who manage on-premises Windows Server environments and want to use Azure to manage server workloads and run their virtual workloads on Windows Server 2019.
- They also want to use existing Microsoft System Center products to implement and manage software-defined datacenters with Windows Server 2019.
Skills Gained
- Describe the Azure Stack portfolio, including Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub, and Azure Stack Edge
- Describe the Azure Stack HCI core technologies and management tools.
- Describe the process of a typical Azure Stack HCI implementation.
- Identify Azure Stack HCI hybrid capabilities.
- Implement, manage, and maintain workloads on Azure Stack HCI.
- Plan for and implement Azure Stack HCI Storage, including Storage QoS and Storage Replica.
- Plan for Azure Stack HCI Networking.
- Implement Software Defined Networks in Azure Stack HCI.
Course Outline
- Introducing Azure Stack HCI
- Overview of Azure Stack HCI
- Overview of Azure Stack HCI technologies
- Overview of Azure Stack HCI management tools
- Overview of the Azure Stack HCI hybrid capabilities
- Operating and maintaining Azure Stack HCI
- Implementing and managing workloads on Azure Stack HCI
- Maintaining Azure Stack HCI
- Integrating hyperconverged infrastructure with Azure services
- Reviewing Azure integration functionality
- Managing updates to hyperconverged infrastructure
- Planning for and implementing Azure Stack HCI storage
- Overview of Azure Stack HCI Storage core technologies
- Planning for Storage Spaces Direct in Azure Stack HCI
- Implementing a Storage Spaces Direct-based hyper-converged infrastructure
- Managing Storage Spaces Direct in Azure Stack HCI
- Planning for and implementing Storage QoS
- Planning for and implementing Storage Replica
- Implementing a Storage Spaces Direct cluster by using Windows Admin Center
- Implementing an Storage Spaced Direct cluster by using Windows PowerShell
- Managing of a Storage Spaces Direct cluster by using Windows Admin Center and Windows PowerShell
- Managing and monitoring resiliency of a Storage Spaces Direct cluster
- Managing Storage Spaces Direct cluster tiers
- Identifying and analyzing metadata of a Storage Spaces Direct cluster (optional)
- Planning for and implementing Azure Stack HCI networking
- Overview of Azure Stack HCI core networking technologies
- Overview of network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking
- Planning for and implementing Switch Embedded Teaming
- Planning for and implementing Datacenter Firewall
- Planning for and implementing Software Load Balancing
- Planning for and implementing RAS Gateways
- Deploying Software-Defined Networking by using PowerShell
- Managing virtual networks by using Windows Admin Center and PowerShell
- Implementing SDN Access Control List by using Windows Admin Center
- Implementing SDN Software Load Balancing by using Windos Admin Center and Windows PowerShell
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