Manage Virtual Machines in Azure

Course details

If you’re currently working or looking to land a new role as an Azure administrator, you need to know the ins and outs of virtual machine configuration and management. This hands-on, demo-focused course provides a deep dive into the key concepts, core skills, and functionalities of virtual machine management in Azure. Join instructor Brien Posey as he shows you the basics of creating an Azure VM as well as best practices related to security, storage, networking, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and more. Learners should ideally have a basic working knowledge of Azure related to infrastructure services, applications, and environments.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Azure VM management
02 - What you should know

1. Azure VM Basics

03 - Create an Azure VM
04 - Create an Azure VM with a preset configuration
05 - Connect to a Windows virtual machine
06 - Connect to a Linux virtual machine

2. Architecture

07 - Understand VM availability options
08 - Choose a VM's architecture and size
09 - Work with spot instances
10 - Reserve VM capacity
11 - Create proximity placement groups

3. Security and Identity

12 - Choose a VM's security type
13 - Assign port rules to a VM
14 - Create managed identities
15 - Connect a VM to the AD
16 - Grant an Azure AD user logon permission

4. Storage

17 - Create and attach a new disk
18 - Attach an existing disk

5. Virtual Machine Management, Maintenance, and Protection

19 - Enable disaster recovery
20 - Virtual machine patching and hot patching
21 - Shut down virtual machines automatically
22 - Boot diagnostics and alerting
23 - VM tagging

6. Networking

24 - Create a virtual network
25 - Create a subnet
26 - Create a public IP address
27 - Create a virtual network firewall
28 - Create firewall rules

7. Applications and Customization

29 - Deploy VM extensions
30 - Instal applications on Azure VMs

8. Working with VMs

31 - Start, stop, and restart VMs
32 - Make a configuration change to a VM
33 - Monitoring VM performance
34 - Create alert rules
35 - Back up a virtual machine
36 - Restore a VM backup
37 - Monitor VM patching
38 - Use Azure Advisor to check best practice compliance
39 - Examine the VM topology map
40 - Where to learn more
41 - Delete a VM

Conclusion

42 - Where to learn more