Integrating Hybrid Clouds with Microsoft Azure

Systems administrator, operator, cloud architect, enterprise architect, and integration developer

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Configure a VNet and connect it to an on-premises data center with VPN Internet Protocol security (IPsec)
• Describe Cloud Volumes ONTAP architecture
• Install an agent and deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP
• Explain basic system administration tasks with the NetApp Console
• Copy data between an ONTAP based system and Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Azure for disaster recovery
• Use data tiering to Azure Blob storage for Cloud Volumes ONTAP
• Use Cloud Volumes ONTAP as persistent storage for Kubernetes containers
• Identify performance and sizing options for Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Module 1: Public cloud essential concepts

Lessons for Module 1:

• Azure networking and other concepts
• Terraform introduction

Exercises for Module 1:

• Controlling cloud resources with CLI
• Configuring cloud resources with PowerShell
• Controlling NetApp ONTAP (on-premises) resources with NetApp PowerShell Toolkit
• Configuring resources in Azure by using Terraform
• Reviewing resources by using Azure Portal
• Verifying connectivity to the virtual machines (VM) in front-end and back-end subnets

Module 2: Connectivity from the public cloud to other networks

Lessons for Module 2:

• Microsoft Azure VNet connectivity to an on-premises network

Exercises for Module 2:

• Connecting Azure VNet to an on-premises network
• Configuring on-premises DNS for Azure VMs
• Joining an Azure VM to Active Directory in the on-premises environment

Module 3: Deploying an agent

Lessons for Module 3:

• Reviewing an agent

Exercises for Module 3:

• Deploying an agent

Module 4: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Lessons for Module 4:

• NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP architecture review
• Deploying the Cloud Volumes ONTAP solution
• Highly available NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Azure

Exercises for Module 4:

• Deploying a single-node Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance
• Creating an NFS volume and accessing it from an NFS client
• Creating an SMB volume and accessing it from an SMB client
• Deploying a Cloud Volumes ONTAP high-availability pair

Module 5: Administration of NetApp Cloud Volumes

Lessons for Module 5:

• NTAP  Administering the Cloud Volumes ONTAP solution

Exercises for Module 5:

• Using The NetApp Console for basic administration of Cloud Volumes ONTAP
• Performing basic administration of The NetApp Console

Module 6: Data protection

Lessons for Module 6:

• Administering Cloud Volumes ONTAP
• Data protection

Exercises for Module 6:

• Configuring and managing ransomware protection
• Configuring and managing Disaster Recovery in the data fabric

Module 7: Tiering

Lessons for Module 7:

• Tiering

Exercises for Module 7:

• Backup data to Azure Blob storage

• Integrating Hybrid Clouds Foundation
• Cloud computing concepts: Cloud characteristics, service delivery methods, and cloud deployment models
• Networking concepts and definitions: Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) and network address translation (NAT)
• Azure concepts: Subscriptions, VNet, virtual machines (VMs), Azure storage accounts, and Azure Blob storage

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