Overview of Activities

• Let consider an organization LearningThoughts (LT) which has 3 branches in India

  • Chennai (Head Office)
  • Bengaluru (BranchOffice 1)
  • Hyderabad (Branchoffice 2)

• Each Location has a datacenter hosting

  • Insurance Management Applications
  • Local InfraStructure
    • Virtual Infra to Host HRMS
    • Active Directories
    • IT infra

• Learning Thoughts wants to use Azure as a cloud platform and has following expectations

  1. Whatever is running on local datacenters, These should be running seamlessly on Azure post migration.
  2. Applications should be able to leverage of
     • High Availability
     • Fault Tolerant
  3. Cost optimizations
  4. Ability to optimize the applications with new/efficient technologies.
  5. Ability to have less administration and One stop monitoring of Infra & Applications

• Skills Required to achieve the expectations

  1. Migration Framework in Azure (Step 1)
  2. Azure Monitoring & Log Analysis Solutions (5)
  3. Azure Architectural Technologies (2,3,4 – Design)
  4. Azure Administration (2,3,4 – Implementation )

• Migrations:

  • Six R’s of Migration
  • Cloud Adoption Framework
    • Strategy
    • Plan
    • Ready
    • Migrate
    • Innovate
    • Govern
    • Manage
    • Organize
  • In house product lines of Azure to Migrate
    • Physical Servers
    • Virtual Servers
    • Databases

• Operations:

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Logging
  • Azure OMS
  • Cost Reporting
  • BCDR (Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery)

• Templates:

  • ARM model of Infrastructure
  • How to use Azure ARM to Provision infrastructure in Azure

• Learning Thoughts has a Team of Engineers

  • Project Management: Veena
  • Solutions Architect: Jacob
  • Operations: Mike

Next Steps

• Lets Start with
  • Azure Operations