This is a supplement guide to ‘Microsoft Cloud Workshop - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery’, to be used when you are delivering a hands-on-lab session using Cloud Labs AI platform from Spektra Systems. If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected]
In this workshop, attendees will implement three different environments and use Azure BCDR technologies to achieve three distinct goals for each environment type. These will include a migration to Azure, Azure region to region failover using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and a PaaS implementation using BCDR technologies to ensure high availably of an application.
- Users can use the Azure Credentials given to them to login to the Azure Portal
- Resource Group ODL_bcdr-XXXXX-01 will be already created in the Users Azure Environment with the LABVM deployed in it.
- LABVM has been configured with the following:
- IE Enhanced Security has been disabled
- SQL Server Express 2017
- SQL Server Management Studio 2017
- Student files are downloaded into C:\HOL Directory
- Users can select LABVM and click on Connect to download the RDP file
- Open the RDP file to connect to the LABVM. Provide the credentials you received to login to the VM
- Once you login to the LABVM, server manager will open. Select Local Server and verify that IE Enhanced Security Configuration has also been turned off
- Now go to C:\HOL directory and verify the student files are there
- Also verify that SQL Server Express 2017 as well as SQL Server Management Studio is installed
Open a browser instance in private or incognito mode and login to Microsoft Azure Portal using the credentials provided.
Note: You might have an existing Azure Credential. For the pre-provisioned environment, new Microsoft Azure environment is provisioned and new AAD user is created for you. To prevent conflict with your existing accounts, it is advised to use In Private mode of IE / IE Edge or Incognito mode of Chrome browser.
You are provided a Visual Studio Community 2017 on Windows Server 2016 (x64)Microsoft with additional softwares configured. FQDN of the LABVM virtual machine and administrator credentials are provided in the lab details page. You can remote into the virtual machine using the provided credentials.
- User need to perform only creation of Resource Groups task in Before Hands on Lab
- Users should use the Azure Credentials given to them to login to Visual Studio
If you require any help during the workshop, please reach out to the instructor / proctors. Instructors / proctors might escalate the issue to remote support team, at that time, please pass on your AAD User ID (aad_user_xyz), so that it is easier to look up your environment.