Azure Operations

• Common Administrative Activities across Azure
  • Backups
  • Disaster Recoveries
  • Patching
  • Monitoring
  • Troubleshooting

Explore Operations with Virtual Machines

• Create a Linux VM and Navigate to Operations blade
  
• The sections are
  • Bastion
  • Auto shutdown
  • Backup
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Updates
  • Inventory
  • Change Tracking
  • Auto Management
  • Policies
  • Run Command
• Now Navigate to Monitoring Blade
  • Insights
  • Alerts
  • Metrics
  • Logs
  • Diagnostic Settings
  • Connection monitor
  • Workbooks
• Troubleshooting
  • Resetting password
  • Boot diagnostics
  • Serial console
  • Re-deploy + reapply

Explore Operations on Databases

• Create an Azure SQL Database
• Monitoring:
  • Alerts
  • Metrics
  • Logs
  • Diagnostic Settings
  • Logs (Server Level)

Explore Operations on Disk

• Resize and Encrypt

Services we will be using

• Azure Backup Center
• Azure Recovery Services Vault
• Azure Monitor
• Azure Alerts
• Azure Logs (Log workspaces)
• Azure Automation.
• Azure Update Management

Lab Setup For tomorrow’s class

• Create any linux vm and windows vm (free tier)
• Create an azure sql database (Basic) Refer Here
• Create a storage account Refer Here
• So that we can start backup and recovery.
• Figure out the differences between
  • Backup and archive
  • full and incremental backup
• What is point in time restore ?