Course Overview
In this course, you practice deploying and administering Linux virtual machines. The skills gained include creating and configuring workloads on virtual machines, accessing blob and file storage, monitoring and triggering alerts, and backing up virtual machines.
Who should attend
This course is designed for students who are performing Azure Administrator virtual machine workload tasks in their day-to-day job. This course is for students to bridge fundamental level skills and entry-level associate skills. This course applies to multiple IT roles, including infrastructure, storage, security, and monitoring.
Course Content
Monitor your Azure virtual machines with Azure Monitor
- Introduction
- Monitoring for Azure VMs
- Monitor VM host data
- Use Metrics Explorer to view detailed host metrics
- Collect client performance counters by using VM insights
- Collect VM client event logs
- Summary
Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
- Introduction
- Azure Backup features and scenarios
- Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup
- Exercise - Back up an Azure virtual machine
- Restore virtual machine data
- Exercise - Restore Azure virtual machine data
- Summary
Implement access management for Azure resources
- Introduction
- Assign Azure roles
- Configure custom Azure roles
- Create and configure managed identities
- Access Azure resources with managed identities
- Analyze Azure role permissions
- Configure Azure Key Vault RBAC policies
- Retrieve objects from Azure Key Vault
- Knowledge check
- Summary and resources
Configure Azure Files
- Introduction
- Compare storage for file shares and blob data
- Manage Azure file shares
- Create file share snapshots
- Implement soft delete for Azure Files
- Use Azure Storage Explorer
- Consider Azure File Sync
- Knowledge check
- Summary and resources
Guided Project: Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Azure
- Introduction
- Exercise - Create and configure Linux virtual machines
- Exercise - Monitor virtual machines
- Exercise - Configure storage for virtual machines
- Exercise - Back up virtual machines
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources