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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón
Book Image

Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Aaditya Pokkunuri, Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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8. Conclusion
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Index

Getting started with Azure Stack HCI and Windows Admin Center

These sections apply for Azure Stack HCI, version 20H2. They assume that you have already set up a cluster in your Azure Stack HCI installation and they give instructions for connecting to the cluster and monitoring cluster and storage performance.

Installing Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center is a locally deployed, browser-based app for managing Azure Stack HCI. Windows Admin Center can be installed on a server in service mode, but it is simpler to install it on a local management PC in desktop mode. In service mode, tasks that require CredSSP, such as cluster creation and installing updates and extensions, necessitate the use of an account that is a member of the Gateway Administrators group on the Windows Admin Center server. For further details, check out https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/configure/user-access-control#gateway-access-role-definitions.

Adding and connecting...