Scenario of LearningThoughts (LT)

• Learning Thoughts has two datacenters in which they have
  • Storage Servers
  • Physical Servers on which they run HyperV
  • Networking
• When the developers/projects need any server infrastructure, LT uses virtualization to create virtual servers
• For Storing the shared data LT uses NAS/SAN systems
• They have Databases which run on VM’s created by hypervisors
• All the application infrastructure, will be created on vms
  • Web Server
  • App Server
  • Middleware Server
  • Databases
• As part of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), The two data centers are used.
  • Databases are replicated
  • Storage/Backups are replicated
• LT has 4 different projects
  • project1
  • project2
  • project3
  • project4
• LT projects use some common infra apart from project specific architecture
  • common infra
  • project specific infra
• To maintain the above mentioned scenarios, LT has an IT team
  • Physical Network Engineers
  • IT admins (Windows Servers and Linux Servers)
  • VMWare/Hyper V admins
  • Storage administrator
  • Database Administrators
  • Datacenter admins
• LT has decided to use Azure Cloud. They want to move from physical datacenter into Azure in a Phased Manner project by project.
• This is something which we can call as migration to public cloud
• If LT doesn’t want to move all the infrastructure to Azure, They want to run infrastructure on Azure as well as their own datacenters this is referred as Hybrid-cloud.
• Questions to be Addressed
  • Which infrastructure should i move first
  • How to deal with downtimes
  • How to have a Backup & Recovery Plan on Azure
  • How to migrate
    • Virtual Machines
    • Physical Servers
    • Database Servers
    • Storage Server (SAN/NAS)
• Micrsoft has developed Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework which is designet to help create and implement the business and technological strategies necessary for any organization to succeed in the cloud.

Exercises

• Cloud Essentials Playlist Refer Here
• Creating Azure free tier account Refer Here
• Create one virtual machine Refer Here

Laptop Setup

• Refer Here for installing the necessary software
• Windows Terminal Refer Here