Level: Intermediate to Advanced
This two part demo heavy session provides practical real world examples of how to replicate and extend an existing on premise infrastructure to the next generation of Server and Cloud - opening the door to simple, predictable and scalable IT solutions that put the IT Professional back in control.
Self-proclaimed "Server Hugger" Rick Claus will take you along his journey of how he overcame his apprehension of Cloud technologies to level up his IT Skills. In other words, bringing clarity to the role of the IT Professional in a cloud world. This two part demo heavy session provides practical real world examples of how to replicate and extend an existing on-premise infrastructure to the next generation of Server and Cloud - opening the door to simple, predictable and scalable IT solutions that put the IT Professional back in control.
Part One: Leverage your current IT Skills to tackle the big challenges of getting up to date and virtualizing one of the most important workloads (Active Directory) safely in a virtualized lab environment. Once up to date, it's time to migrate and test existing or new workloads.
You will learn:
- To build a replica of your existing work environment for lab/test and migration purposes
- Identify your existing on-premises skills and how they translate to a public IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) cloud offering like Microsoft Azure
- Replicate your environment to IaaS on Microsoft Azure