Overview
5 Days $4,050 or FREE WITH SATVs (?)
This five day Microsoft 20246 training course describes how to monitor and operate a cloud with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2. This course focuses on how to manage and administer a cloud environment, and it describes how you can monitor key infrastructure elements and applications that run within a cloud. It does not discuss planning and implementation, which is covered in 20247: Configuring and Deploying a Cloud with System Center.
- Overview of the Cloud Computing Model
- Requirements for a Private Cloud
- Requirements for a Public or Hybrid Cloud
- Operating a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with System Center
- Maintaining the Health of a Cloud
- Integrating System Center Components
- Verify the Infrastructure
- Verifying System Center Components
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- The features of a cloud computing model.
- The requirements for a private cloud.
- The requirements for a public cloud.
- How you can use System Center to monitor and manage a hybrid cloud.
- How to maintain the health of a hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- How to integrate System Center components.
- Overview of System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
- Managing the Virtual Environment with Virtual Machine Manager
- Creating Clouds
- Configuring Network Resources
- Creating a Cloud
- Create a VM Network using Software Defined Networks Isolation
- Creating the Contoso Cloud Tenant for StockTrader Production
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the core components, key features, architecture, and security features of Virtual Machine Manager, and the role that it plays in a cloud environment.
- Use Virtual Machine Manager to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Build and configure resources and security for a private cloud.
- Overview of Service Templates
- VMM Profiles
- Web Deploy Packages
- Overview of Server App-V
- Data-Tier Application Packages
- Deploying Services through App Controller
- Deploying a Single Tier Service
- Configuring Prerequisites
- Preparing the StockTrader Service Template
- Deploying the Service Template
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Create service templates in VMM by using the Service Template Designer.
- Create VMM machine profiles.
- create Web Deploy packages.
- Sequencing applications by using Server App-V.
- Create data-tier application packages.
- Deploy services by using App Controller.
- Overview of System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
- Agent Deployment in Operations Manager
- Configuring Custom Monitoring
- Monitoring the Network Infrastructure
- Monitoring Distributed Applications
- Deploying an Agent
- Configuring Custom Monitoring
- Creating a Distributed Application Model
- Detecting and Recovering From a Failure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe what Operations Manager is, including the architecture, key features, and security.
- Deploy Operations Manager agents to application servers.
- Configure custom monitoring for applications and services in the cloud.
- Monitor the networking infrastructure that applications and services rely upon.
- Monitor Distributed Applications.
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Advanced Monitoring in APM
- Viewing Application Performance Data in Operations Manager
- Configuring Basic Monitoring in Application Performance Monitoring
- Customising the Performance Thresholds
- Validating Monitoring
- Creating a Distributed Application Model for the DinnerNow Application
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the core components in APM and the best practices when implementing them.
- Implement advanced monitoring features that are available in APM.
- View application performance in Operations Manager.
- Overview of Service Manager
- Configuring Security and User Roles
- Configuring Work Items
- Configuring Incident Queues
- Configuring Service Offerings for a Cloud
- Configuring Security Roles
- Configuring Notifications
- Publish an Incident Service Offering
- Raising an Incident
- Creating a Change Request
- Creating a Release Record
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe Service Manager.
- Configure security and user roles.
- Configure work items.
- Configure incident queues.
- Configure service offerings.
- Overview of System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator
- Integrating Orchestrator with Operations Manager and Service Manager
- Configuring the Incident Template
- Configuring Incidents that affect the StockTrader Service
- Automatic Incident remediation and Change Requests
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the Orchestrator components and the available Integration Packs.
- Integrate Orchestrator with Operations Manager and Service Manager.
- Overview of Problem Management
- Creating Custom Rules
- Manually Creating a Problem Record
- Creating a Custom Event Rule in Operations Manager
- Configuring Automated Problem Record Creation
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe problem management.
- Create custom rules in Operations Manager.
Additionally, this module explains how to install and configure the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack, including integrating it with other System Center 2012 R2 components.
- Installing and Configuring the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack
- Cloud Services Configuration Items
- Cloud Services Request Items
- Completing the Prerequisites for the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack
- Installing the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack
- Configuring the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack
- Deploying a Virtual Machine for StockTrader by Using the Cloud Services Process Pack
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Install and configure the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack.
- Describe the various Cloud Services configuration items that make up the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack.
- Describe the various Cloud Services request items that are included in the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack.
- Windows Azure Pack Key Concepts
- Administer Windows Azure Pack
- Windows Azure Pack Providers
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the core components, key features, architecture and security features of Windows Azure Pack.
- Describe the Windows Azure Pack concepts.
- Provision and Configure services in the Windows Azure Pack.
- High Availability for a Cloud
- Protecting Data in the Private Cloud
- Recovering Data in the Private Cloud
- Configuring Manual Protection and Recovery of Key Service Data
- Configuring Automatic Protection and Recovery of Key Service Data
- Monitoring Protection Status
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- High availability for a cloud.
- Data protection for a cloud.
- Data recovery for a cloud.
- Using Virtual Machine Manager to Keep the Cloud infrastructure Up-To-Date
- Using Configuration Manager to Keep Virtual Machines Up-To-Date
- Using System Center Advisor to Optimise Cloud infrastructure
- Using Pro-Tips to Optimise Cloud infrastructure
- Configuring Update Baselines
- Configuring Pro-Tips
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Apply security updates to the host infrastructure with Virtual Machine Manager.
- Apply security updates to the host and guest infrastructure with Configuration Manager.
- Optimise your platform with System Center Advisor.
- Optimise your virtual machine workloads with Pro-Tips.
- Service Level Tracking
- Configuring and Deploying Widgets and Dashboards
- Publishing Real-Time State with Microsoft Visio Snap-in
- System Center Analytics
- Using Excel and SSRS to View Data
- Configuring Service Reporting
- Configuring Service Level Tracking
- Configuring Service Level Management for a cloud
- Configuring Microsoft Excel Analytics
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe Service Level Tracking in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 - Operations Manager.
- Configure and deploy widgets and dashboards.
- Describe publishing in real-time state with Microsoft Visio.
- Describe using System Center analytics.
- View data with Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
- Install, configure and use Service Reporting to create chargeback reports.
- Windows Server 2012 experience
- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) knowledge
- Networking experience
- Working knowledge of previous versions of System Center products
- Knowledge of configuration of Microsoft SharePoint
- Hyper-V knowledge
- Microsoft Windows Azure
- Knowledge of cloud and data center management processes
- Storage Area Network (SAN) Knowledge
Instructors
Gordon Cowser
With over 22 years real world and training experience, Gordon is ...