Architecting an Azure Compute Infrastructure

Over the years, Azure cloud  services has been growing at a faster rate, and the number of  organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also rapidly  increasing. Leading industry giants are finding Azure to fulfill their  extensive cloud requirements. With the Azure cloud adoption going at a  faster pace, some frustration comes in as well. Public Cloud definitely  makes deploying workloads a lot faster, but it doesn’t always makes  things easier. That’s why you still need to understand the platform  capabilities, and having the knowledge to really design and architect  your future datacenter strategy. And that’s exactly what this course  will teach you.

In this module, we highlight one of the most common scenarios in an  Azure adoption project, mainly designing and integrating Azure Virtual  Machine topologies. Just like building out your VM architecture in a  typical on-premises datacenter, this course is logically structured in  that way. Starting from designing Azure Virtual Networking  architectures, both within Azure and for Hybrid scenarios, we move over  to an in-depth view on Azure Virtual Machines. What VM sizes are  available and how to decide which ones to use, how to deploy VMs in a  couple of different ways, as well as how to streamline Azure VM  configurations, are the key objectives of this topic.

Next, viewers will learn how to architect high-availability setups for  Azure VM workloads. In the last section of this course, viewers will get  a good understanding of what platform monitoring solutions Azure  provides today, by zooming in on Operations Management Suite, Azure  Monitor and Azure Log Analytics.

About the Author

Peter De Tender is the CEO  and Lead Technical Trainer at PDTIT , a Microsoft  Cloud Platform Architect, extremely passionate trainer and speaker,  Azure MVP (2013-2018), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and technical  writer. Starting his career in 1996, Peter has never looked back from  Microsoft infrastructure technologies. At present, he’s an expert on  Azure and Azure Stack, coaching global Microsoft Partners, larger  Microsoft customers and Microsoft FTE teams, all over the world, in  achieving more with Azure. While this got him a position as FTE for  Microsoft Corp in the global Microsoft AzureCAT GSI (Azure Engineering)  team early 2016, his passion for speaking and presenting made him decide  to return to his own company after about a year, coming back with an  even stronger focus on providing readiness workshops and architect  consulting on the Azure platform.

When Peter is not speaking or presenting, he authors Azure-related  whitepapers and courses for Microsoft as well as several other training  companies in the IT industry, or updating his own custom Azure Advanced  training material.