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14. DNSSEC (OBJ 1.1) In this lesson, we’re going to discuss domain name system security extensions, also known as DNS SEC. Now, before we do that, let’s do a quick review of how DNS works. Every time a user tries to go to a website or clicks a link, they’re telling their computer they want […]

1. Lecture: Storage Account Overview Let’s get started with Blob storage by looking at this from the storage account perspective. First of all, we have our storage account, and you’ll need one that supports Blob storage. In addition, we have our containers, which are inside our storage account. This allows us to organise our various […]

1. Lecture: Azure SQL Services So we have Azure SQL to begin with. This is our relational database as a service. So instead of you having to build a virtual machine and then install SQL Server on top of that machine, on top of Windows, although there are Linux versions available now as well, this […]

3. Demo: Log Analytics In this demonstration, We’re now going to take a look at log analytics in the Azure Portal. And, if you’re unfamiliar, log analytics has recently undergone a number of changes. So, if you looked at this a few months ago, you know, early in January 2019, Microsoft eventually changed everything, and […]

1. Demo: Azure Monitor and Alerts In this demonstration, we are now going to take a look at Azure Monitor and Azure Alerts from the Azure Portal. And in the portal, there are a couple of ways to access monitoring. First of all, we can access it from our favourites by clicking Monitor, which is […]

1. Lecture: RBAC Overview Naturally, one of the most important aspects of Azure is access management. Given that there’s so much infrastructure that we’re putting out in the public cloud, we need to find a way to secure it and lock it down so only the right people can access it and have the appropriate […]

1. Demo: Install Docker and Git for Windows Before we can jump into the containers themselves, we do need to have a mechanism for running containers on our operating system. So we’re going to go ahead and install Docker as well as Kit for Windows. So, let us go to our web browser, and in […]

1. Demo – Configuring VM Reservations and Limits in vSphere 7 As you can see, I’m currently logged into the Vsphere client. I’m going to go to Hosts and Clusters, and we’re going to work on this virtual machine called Demo VM, and I’m going to power it on. And one of the reasons I […]

1. How to Register and Un-Register a VM in vSphere 7 So here I am at the home screen of the VSphere client in VSphere 7. And I’m going to browse hosts and clusters. And you can see here that I’ve got some virtual machines that are already created. These virtual machines are also assigned […]

1. vSphere 7 Lifecycle Management vSphere lifecycle manager is now the next generation of update manager. So if you’re familiar with Update Manager, a lot of the concepts for Life Cycle Manager are not going to be new to you. We used Update Manager to do things like upgrade and patch our ESPR and ESXi […]