Azure Administration: Business Continuity
2h 16mIntermediate2020-02-06
Authors

Matt Hester
IT Pro, Author, Technical Evangelist
Course details
Organizations need to ensure that their data stays safe—even when accidents and disasters strike. In this course, learn how to help your organization overcome unexpected or challenging events by implementing an effective business continuity plan using options in Microsoft Azure. Using practical examples, instructor Matt Hester demonstrates how to implement a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy, regardless of whether your infrastructure is on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid setup. Matt details how to use Azure Backup Server and Site Recovery to keep data safe and recoverable. Plus, he shows how to configure your systems to remain continuously available during planned or unplanned downtime.
Topics include:
- Choices for data recovery
- Creating the Recovery Services vault
- Backing up and recovering data with Azure Backup Server
- Key features in Azure Site Recovery
- Automation features in Azure Site Recovery
- Configuring Azure Site Recovery plans
Topics include:
- Choices for data recovery
- Creating the Recovery Services vault
- Backing up and recovering data with Azure Backup Server
- Key features in Azure Site Recovery
- Automation features in Azure Site Recovery
- Configuring Azure Site Recovery plans
Skills covered
Server AdministrationAzureNetwork AdministrationCloud PlatformsNetwork and System AdministrationCloud ComputingMicrosoftDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - What you should know
1. Azure Overview
- 03 - Cloud platform choices
- 04 - What makes Azure unique
2. Business Continuity Overview
- 05 - On premises
- 06 - Hybrid options
- 07 - Cloud options
- 08 - Azure Backup choices
- 09 - Recovery choices
3. Azure Backup
- 10 - Key terms and concepts
- 11 - Azure Backup process
- 12 - Creating the Recovery Services vault
- 13 - Installing the agent
- 14 - Configuring the agent
- 15 - Azure Backup
- 16 - Azure recovery
- 17 - Azure VM backup
4. Azure Backup Server
- 18 - What is Azure Backup Server
- 19 - Installation requirements
- 20 - Installing Azure Backup Server
- 21 - A note about updates
- 22 - Configure Azure Backup Server
- 23 - Data backup
- 24 - Data recovery
5. Azure Site Recovery
- 25 - What is Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
- 26 - Understanding automation
- 27 - ASR configuration
- 28 - Configure recovery plan
- 29 - Test failover
Conclusion
- 30 - Next steps