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WS-013: Azure Stack HCI Training

It is a three-day course designed for IT professionals. It offers Professional expertise in managing on-premises Windows server environments; the course covers advanced topics related to Windows server software.

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Course Overview

Note: This course is retired on October 31st, 2022.

It is a three-day course designed for IT professionals. It offers Professional expertise in managing on-premises Windows server environments; the course covers advanced topics related to Windows server software.

This course also offers Professional Azure Stack HCI and other stack products.

The fundamental abilities professionals will learn in this course include describing Azure stack portfolios, Azure Stack HCI, and Azure stack hub.

Professionals will also learn all the core technologies in Azure Stack HCI.

After completing this course, the Professional will find job roles as an administrator to manage the Windows server environment. 

This course is based on the objectives of the course version WS-013T00-A.

Mode of Training

🏫 Classroom 💻 Live Online 🧪 Blended 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Private Group

What you will learn

  • 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.

Who Should Attend This Course?

Azure Stack HCI course is for 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 aThe lso want to use existing Microsoft System Center products to implement and manage software-defined data centers with Windows Server 2019.

 

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 computing, 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)

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📘 WS-013: Azure Stack HCI Outline

Lessons

  • 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe basic capabilities and use cases of the Microsoft Azure Stack portfolio.
  • Identify the core components of the Azure Stack HCI architecture.
  • Identify common management tools used to deploy and manage a hyperconverged infrastructure.
  • Describe the purpose and capabilities of Azure Arc.
  • Identify Azure infrastructure services that you can integrate into your on-premises environment.
  • Configure cloud witness as the quorum witness type.
  • Describe how to establish a Point-to-Site VPN to an Azure virtual network with Azure Network Adapter
  • Describe the characteristics and use cases for Azure File Sync and Azure Monitor.
  • Explain now to maintain business continuity, using Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
  • Describe Azure Update Management use cases and architecture.
  • Describe the high level process for provisioning an Azure Stack HCI implementation.

Lessons

  • Implementing and managing workloads on Azure Stack HCI
  • Maintaining Azure Stack HCI

Lab: Using Windows Admin Center in hybrid scenarios

  • Integrating hyperconverged infrastructure with Azure services
  • Reviewing Azure integration functionality
  • Managing updates to hyperconverged infrastructure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Implement shared clustering with shared disks.
  • Describe components required to deploy shielded VMs.
  • Implement Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) workloads.
  • Host container-based deployments in Azure Stack HCI.
  • Create a Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN connection to an Azure virtual network, with Azure Network Adapter.
  • Describe Azure File Sync architecture.
  • Implement Azure File Sync to replicate files between on-premises and an Azure file share.
  • Manage Azure Stack HCI workloads with Azure Arc.

Lessons

  • 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

Lab: Implementing a Storage Spaces Direct cluster

  • 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)

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe Azure Stack HCI storage core technologies.
  • Plan for Storage Spaces Direct in Azure Stack HCI.
  • Implement Storage Spaces Direct-based Hyper-Converged Infrastructure.
  • Manage Storage Spaces Direct in Azure Stack HCI.
  • Plan for and implement Storage QoS.
  • Plan for and implement Storage Replica.

Lessons

  • 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

Lab: Deploying Software-Defined Networking

  • 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 Windows Admin Center and Windows PowerShell

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe the core Software-Defined Networking (SDN) components of Azure Stack HCI.
  • Distinguish between software-only and hardware-only features, in the context of Azure Stack HCI.
  • Describe the use case for Simplified SMB Multichannel and Multi-NIC Cluster Networks.
  • Describe network virtualization in the context of Azure Stack HCI.
  • Describe the process of deploying SDN in Azure Stack HCI.
  • Plan for and implement SET.
  • Describe SLB functionality and infrastructure and implement SLB.
  • Implement and configure Datacenter Firewall.
  • Implement, configure, and troubleshoot RAS Gateway.

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