Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate Full Course 2026 [FREE] | Azure AZ-104 Course | Simplilearn

Think about what happens when a company wants to launch a website, create a virtual server, store important files, manage employee access or make sure its applications are always available. Now, all of this becomes possible through cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and the professionals who manage these services are Azure administrators. Hey everyone, welcome back to Simply Learn's YouTube channel. In this Microsoft Azure administrator course, we will understand how Azure administrators work with cloud resources and manage different services inside Microsoft Azure. We'll begin by looking at what an Azure administrator actually does and why companies use Azure for flexibility, scalability, security, and cost effective infrastructure. Then we'll explore the Azure portal, subscriptions, resource group, and how resources are created and organized in the cloud. And after that we'll also move into practical Azure services like virtual machines, storage accounts, blob storage, fileshare, Q storage and table storage. We'll also see how can be hosted using Azure virtual machines and static website host. Along with this administration topics like apps over containers, virtual networks, load balancing monitoring, infrastructure automation by this course you have a clear idea in real world environment. So let's begin this course. Now before we move on, let me something exciting with you guys. If you have a very strong career cloud computing and with Microsoft includes Microsoft Azure administrator course this course is designed to help you understand how to manage cloud infrastructure. You'll learn how to manage Azure subscriptions, secure users and identities, configure virtual network, set up storage, create and scale virtual machines, work with containers, manage web app, monitor resources and backup cloud solutions. The best part is that this course is not just theory. You will get live virtual classes led by industry experts, official Microsoft content, hands-on Azure labs, practice projects, simulation test, and 247 learning support. So, you're not only learning Azure concepts, but also practicing how these services are actually used in real cloud environments. This course is especially useful for IT professionals, system administrators, cloud beginners, and anyone who wants to move into Azure administrator or cloud engineer roles. It also help you prepare for the AZ 10.4 certification exam which validates your skills in managing Microsoft Azour environments. So if you want to build practical Azure skills and become more confident in cloud administration simply learns Microsoft certified Azure administrators associate course is definitely worth checking out. Before we get started, here's a quick quiz question for you. Which Azure service is used to create and manage virtual servers? Azure blob storage, Azure virtual machines, Azure key volt or Azure monitor. Comment your answer below and let's see how many of you got it right. So before we start our formal session, let's understand why we all are here for a 104 which means how you can administer Azure platform. So what does it means? Now for an example if someone asks if you are an Azure administrator what your day to day or from 9 to 5 look like. This is the very very first important understanding the context of the whole training. How your day look like and this is a very very important part. So if uh I just need to ask second remember one very important part for 104 or you can say administrator role in Microsoft Azure platform that you actually do not have the free hand. When we say a free hand means you need to perform a task which is assigned to you. So there is no you can say that a kind of a liberty as an Azure administrator at initial days as you get matured when you have that experience then probably you can take certain decision by your own but in a 90% cases you basically get instruction how you get instruction instruction how you execute the task and so on. So in the next 10 days that is my promise that after the 10 classes you understand each bit of Azure administration as well as you should be confident enough if you are trying for a job role change or if you're trying to get uh probably a role in any of the Azure administration world. So these two question please remember and that we will discuss in the ninth or 10th class one more time to understand how much clarity you get. Yeah it's a it's a quite different than what usually we have in a training. So before we start our a formal journey on AJ 104 let me have let me have a simple question. What is Azure? Question number two, why any customer use Azure boom in last 4 to 5 years? Everyone go crazy. I am going for an Azure. It's a 104. All right. So, let me have your understanding. What is Azure? Can anyone say as per your own understanding till now what is Azure? cost efficiency is the one of the reason why customer you know go for Azure capex and opex so in the nutshell high availability business continuity right so for an example I'm just putting it out here few of you mention cost benefit high availability you can say that business continuity correct easy management Right. It's a a simple management. Good. So you can like OPEX model in a state of AEX you do not have to spend money global availability font size is uh actually uh there is a option in the zoom when you click on the top the screen will get enlarged just try that now why Azure boom in last four and five years so if all these are the benefit please listen my question very carefully when these are the benefit of Azure it's not new it's not new right then why customer not opted for Azure or any cloud platform for so long time because the cloud already present in this whole space for last 23 years these all are the benefit which you all listed so why customer resist why customer now start boarding on the cloud platform nowadays in last four to five years what is changed all around what is the trigger point of why Azure boom in last four and five years security but security was there for a long time right cost benefit is also there for a last I can I think that 20 years yes that's all I that's what I am saying that these are the benefit is not new it was there for a quite two decade uh before this benefit is still available so if you look at Here before that you have a internet speed of 2z 2 what has changed? Suddenly 2G is now became a 5G and even in many country the 6G is already in a process of a roll out. So when you have a fast internet availability it powered a smart devices like phone tablet. So when these fast internet provide or you can say boost a smart devices people like you and me what our behavior change our behavior change is that by sitting at our home we like to avail the service just like that today I and you both are connected on a zoom platform can you do it 10 years back it is almost impossible almost impossible So when customer behavior change it impact the companies. So let me give you a context. Now before that before that a business depend on business depend on or you can say h use app. So even 10 years back if you go to bank if you go to bank you have to stand in a queue then at the counter they ask certain question from you and they fill the some detail. So 10 years back 20 years back they still use application business still use application and your application depend on infrastructure. So where application is running on infrastructure and what is the best part of this approach? If application is down remember 10 years back if application is down still business function. So remember that even if the application is down still you can do certain task certain task right. What is happening now? It's a app who drive the business. It's a app who drive the business. Let me have give you a very simple uh analogy behind. If Uber app down what you can say that a general manager, a CEO can do if Uber app is down. Can they do anything? Nothing. Nothing. Today era right now where we are sitting we call it as an appdriven world. So how this changing scenario trigger the adoption of Microsoft Azure or cloud platform because that is interesting that is happening at a business and consumer side. What to do with what is the relationship of the appdriven business scenario anything to do with Microsoft Azure. Now let's go deeper. Now we are trying to understand how number one internet power a smart device how a smart device power a business now so it's a appdriven business nowadays how appdriven business is actually trigger a adoption I give you a sensitive information now so for an example if you have to use Uber or Amazon on. Do you need to register? Yes. And what you provide What you provide when you register whether you notice or not? You provide your whole personal detail. You provide your name. You provided your date of birth. You provide your address. You provide your national ID card. You provide your credit card. Do not you think this is a very very personal information? Yes. Now remember when I as a company let's say for an example I am I am a company who is based in India. Let me call myself simply learn. Today we are working in India. Tomorrow I want to open my business in France. I simply rename simply learn.fr. Who am I? India based company where I want to work in France which is a totally different country. So today India and France is a very good friend tomorrow for XY Z reason that friendship is not good. Now in Indian company simply learn have lot of data about the French citizen in the in the changing scenario. Is it possible that we can use this data to target to disrupt something to that people who already give all their information with me? Yes or no? I can or I cannot because they every information is India now. Correct? That is very very important to all you to understand now. So France said that okay dear simply learn if you want to do a business with me 10 years back you have to only obtain a business license 10 years back but now because you are doing app driven business and your app capture lot of data please remember your app capture lot of data which you do not No, for example, your IP address, for example, your device name, for example, your location. Are you aware that your app is capturing all this data as well? So, France is saying that hey dear Indian company, you are welcome to do a business in France. But now you have to store data in France only. You cannot store this data to India data center. So what they say now data recedency if you do not heard this term please now heard it's called data residency law for example GDPR in Europe simply learn say that okay so it means that if I have to do a business in France I have to first obtain a business license then I have to also have a data center. Please remember this is a very very important part which help you to understand how Microsoft as your trigger. So one data center I already have in uh India which I spend billion dollar to get that data center. So when we say a data center it means that it's a real estate you have to occupy a space and you know that in the real estate price nowadays is just a skyrocketing. You have to hire multiple people from guard to the engineers to the managers. You have to you have to purchase thousands of servers, network devices and then you have to do a compliances like ISO compliance and so on. So your investment in setting up a single data center can be $1 billion. So I'm just saying that similar now say that hey I have to spend $1 billion before even we start the business I have to invest $1 billion you are a businessman let me ask a question to you can you take a risk in this geopolitical scenario that you will invest $1 billion to somewhere and tomorrow for XY Z region if business doesn't fly what will you do with all this investment does it make sense to you if you are a CEO of a company absolutely no right so if I come to you I'll say that hey I am Microsoft I give you the data center on rent how much you have to pay nothing zero nothing okay so in this data center you host your service host your uh uh you can say data how much you use you just have to pay if you do not use you do not have to pay which option will you go with build your own data center or you are like to you know become my guest and to occupy some space in my data center which one is the most feasible option for you. So remember anyone of you who is in India we have a Blackberry India government demand hey Blackberry you are a US company you when you are staying in India when you are doing a business in India you have to set up the data center in India you have to host your whole data in India but like belly refuse India say pack up and go that's how you suddenly you see that blackberry disappear from India all their investment go for a toss correct few years back there is a Big fight happened between Instagram, Twitter and government of India. Yes, because now the every government is start demanding if you are a foreign entity you are welcome but you have to now store all the data here. Is that clear? Now why you as a customer I as a customer I have no choice. If I have to go global I have to host my data into the territory where I supposed to do the business. And this is how Microsoft Azure or any cloud platform. Boom. So what exactly the Microsoft platform is? What is the Microsoft platform is? Remember any cloud platform exactly? Now let's understand the global infra of a cloud. What does it means? And that is very interesting to know every cloud provider they divide the whole world into manageable geography and that is very interesting to know. Now for example we have a geography called US. We have a geography called APAC. Europe. We have a geography called Middle East and so on, Africa. What is the meaning of geography? Now remember when we say that we are in Apac regime. Now you go to any country in Apac any country number one you find certain similarity in terms of some kind of a cultural you can say that culturally somewhere we are similar. Second, within that particular geography, usually one country will have some kind of a agreement with another country. Like in Apac region, you have SARKC. Have you heard this name before? Like in Europe, you have a European Union. Correct? Yes. So these are the political alliances. What we call political alliances. What does it means by Yes. Yes. Yes. Perfect. So what I mean by political alliances is is when let's say I am India and because of the sark political alliances I have a agreement with uh for example Sri Lanka I have agreement with some other countries. Okay. So this agreement means as a government of one country I am trusting the government of another country. So your cloud provider actually tap this political alliances. They understand that one country trust another country. How does it help? So in the US region they set up their data center in East US for an example in west US and let's say in a central US same day in pack. They set up the data center in India. They set up the data center in Singapore. They set up the data center in Japan. But there is no data center in Sri Lanka. There is no data center in South US. So remember when we say a data center these data center are usually called tire four data center. Let me ask a simple question to all of you Azure AWS Google you take any big name all their data center are in Mumbai, Chennai and somewhat in Hyderabad. But why there is no data center in Delhi, Gura and Anoida in India earthquake prone area that is a very very important part that is a very very important part. So remember you cannot build a data center for a cloud in earthquake bone area. That is a very very important part. Okay. Second very very important part is these data center are actually connected globally but if you see the globe 70% is water. So it means that the internet fiber line is run through the water line. So it means that each data center Yes. Yes. should be near coastal area. And third that is of course that is uh you can say in a generic you will see the uh stability of the country correct uh the taxes how the uh taxes is there what is the compliance requirement of the country and so on so so there are a huge long checklist why a data center cannot be set up in certain region. So maybe southwest US is a landlock area. Maybe in the south region is earthquake prone area. We do not know. Same way if you look at that there is no data center in Sri Lanka. Possibly a stability might be one of the factor and it can be any other reason as as such. So your service provider like Microsoft, like any other they set up the geography, geography. They have a reason. And then they have a data center. Now I am a customer. Just just take this word. I'm a customer. I host my data center in India and this data center is in Andheri, Mumbai. If you are outside India and is just like one of the downtown any big city and I host my let's say a database for an example let's say for example SQL server in this Ali Mumbai I also have my which can be a VM running in this Anderi Mumbai and I am a e-commerce giant in India flipkart it's a peak season millions of user login on my on my flipcard.com suddenly and anheri Mumbai data center is down for any xyz reason fire broke out, hardware failure or it might be flooded or might be the municipal corporation of Mumbai dig the road and cut the fiber. Millions of users suddenly say Flipkart is offline. Anyone who is not from India, Flipkart is just like an Amazon. It's a local uh you can say e-commerce platform. So, Flipkart will go to Microsoft. Hey Microsoft, I trust you. I put all my service in your data center. Oh, now you are giving me a lame excuse because of XY Z reason your data center is down. So what can I do? My business is lost. My reputation is lost. Is that good or bad? Bad. So Microsoft said that all right all right do not worry. I understand business is critical for you. So in the same reason in a Mumbai itself I have now three data center please remember it is just for your understanding one is in andhi Mumbai one is in let's say a BKC band Kura complex and second is let's say for example any other reason in where let's say XY All right. Let's say po Mumbai. Okay. All right. So please remember one more time. So it means that in the same reason in the same region Mumbai Microsoft has built more than one data center and these data center are connected with each other with a very fast fiber network. very fast fiber network with the you can say that it's a very minimal latency. So Microsoft give an offer now. They say that hey customer if business is so important for you you create replica of your database from more than one data center. Of course you have to pay price three times but in this way you get something which is called high aability and what we call availability. zoom. So what you have geography, reason, aability zone and the data center. Data center. Okay. Do you know AWS? AWS what is that? It's a cloud service provider. Okay. So AWS will have a geography. AWS will have a reason. AWS have a ability zone. AWS have a data center. What is Google? It's a cloud platform. Okay. So, Google have a geography. Google have a reason. Google have ability zone. Google have a data center. Anyone know for an example? Bam cloud. What is Bamcy? Oh, it's a cloud platform. Okay. Then Bamy have a geography. Bamy have region. Bamci have ability zone. Bami have a data center. Is that clear now? Any cloud exactly the same. So nice. This is just an introduction from me beginning. I hope that you understand that how the way we move forward. Now here I am drawing up the map for your learning and study. I start with week one, week two. Week three, week four and week five. So week one we are going to talk mostly about a compute power that is a sava. Week two we are going to talk most about a storage service in Microsoft Azure week three which is for me it's a very important one. We're going to talk about the app service and a network service, app service and virtual network service. Week four we are going to talk about HR and DR including your load balancer. your firewall and we also going to talk about the security especially the key vault concept. Week five we are going to going to understand about how you can manage whole Azure as an administrator other way around of uh portal like your CLI your infrastructure as a code monitoring. So I am just talking about the ARM and in the final one we talked about the monitoring of so let me to write it Week one and today and tomorrow we talked about the VM in detail in depth we go with Microsoft stories both Saturday and we are going to understand about an app service and a network service. Here we talked about the high aability DR plus security. Here we talked about the infrastructure as a code like a bicep ARM plus monitoring. So we're going to understand the first virtual machine. Before that let me give you one corporate scenario to understand why we need this service and as an administrator where your role come. So a customer want to host its uh website on Microsoft Azure. This website is developed in HTML, Java, React.net, whatever you think this is. Now, this is one of the ask of a company. they want they have a website and then they want to host it in Microsoft Azure. Now just to give you a context at this point of time in Microsoft Azure cloud platform we have a multiple service which where you can host your website. One is we call it as a server which is essentially a VM. You can hold it or store it in a a storage which is called a blob storage. You can host the website in a app service. And we also have a world where we talk about the container. You can host it in a container as well. So someone who in the role of solution design we also called them as a solution architect they first understand this requirement and then they have lot of questionnaire to ask from the customer. So for an example in generic if I am a solution architect I ask a questions by looking at this scenario. Hey customer does your website a static or dynamic. This is a very very important questions. The moment customer say that no my website is a dynamic website means it can keep changing let's say it's a dynamic so the moment I have a clarity that the type of website which customer is looking at is uh dynamic website a storage account gone because a storage can only host a static website to drill down further. We I as a C solution architect I may ask another questions. Do you need to control backend like an operating system because in a certain scenario customer want to deploy its own antivirus. Customer want to do hardening of the service means disable lot of services from the windows. Customer want to control the patch management and so on. Some of the compliances require it like PCI compliance. So in that case customer say that yes I need backend control then the app service gone because app service do not let you control the back end OS managed by Microsoft. Maybe to do a further isolation as a solution architect I may ask one more question. Does your application codebased or container image based? So essentially what I am asking here do you have a code or your whole code is encapsulated as a you can say that DVD image. If customer give me an answer that it is a pure code base. I do not have anything called container image. My developer developed the code and it is now available to here the container service gone. So I mean to say someone at the top level they make this decision what exactly needed and how they do that by something which is called asking a questions a lot of ways. So when you if you if you are already in role 4305 uh you probably understand this one when you are in that module but this is the same thing let's say for example once that uh uh requirement is clear means we are going to have an a virtual machine so a solution architect then do the second task it uh create a complete map in the sense okay I am going to create a VM which VM so they make decision Now in Microsoft Azure we have something which is called as an S KU. You can think it like a pricing unit or in a very crude language we also call it as a family. For example, when you go to Domino, it give you three options. A small pizza, medium pizza, large pizza. and you have to select from them. So there are many families which is available. We will discuss it very shortly. But at this point of time they decide which family. Second they decide what should be the VM name. Third, they decide which operating system they have and in the operating system again there is a lot of things like a licensing and all come into the picture. Third, they decide which reason this VM should be run. So once the decision has been made they give you they again draft something it is called a execution flow in the execution flow they give you a a full uh you can say that diagrammatic view so for an example when I say this is a VM and let's say in this VM we install Windows operating system. So we have a Windows operating system in this VM and to run a website we need something called web server. So there are multiple web server available. Can anyone of you if you know the web server can you put a name there? Apache engine very good love it. So you have for a Linux you have a Apache you have engineix in Microsoft usually we use something called internet information server and so on. Tomcat right Tomcat. Yes. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. So top three is basically used in a Linux uh light speed also. Yes. Yes. Sometimes we use subum. So because it's a windows so we prefer to use IIS. So in this we install a web server called IIS web server. That is what we are going to install inside that. Now once I get installed in this uh VM it will give me something which is called a virtual folder. Usually this virtual folder are located inside your default C drive with called inet pub and within the inet pub you will have a folder called www root. Inside that folder you put your all your uh website code like you have an HTML you have a Java you have a Python whatever you have you can just put it inside that. So I put my HTML code inside here. So it means that first we have to create a VM. Inside the VM we need to install IAS. Inside the IAS we need to put my HTML, Java, Net, React any application. And then this VM will also have something which is called a public IP. This public IP can be mapped with the DNS like a god or this public IP can be directly accessed by the user because it's a public IP. So it is accessible from outside. So any user can hit this public IP and get the website or this public IP can be also match with map with DNS and people hit the DNS name like a Microsoft.com and then can get the website. This all decision where I am as an administrator I am nowhere till now we do not have any idea what is going on outside. So remember this is administration. Okay. Now this all has been drafted and then you as an administrator you come to know how. So there are many method available few company will give you information via email. You get a formal email. Hey dear administrator this is what we have to do. This is what you have to create something right. Yes. Uh one formal method. So if you are very new to microour administration we call it as a ticketing tool like service now BMC remedy Jira Salesforce. Yes. Zer Salesforce. So any one of you if you are very very new to this whole world this name can be so let's say for example in in my company if I have to get this job done I will get something which is called a ticketing tool. So I will get a ticket and that using that ticket I will uh you know uh get the whole bunch of uh task to uh perform. So usually in the ticketing world someone who for whom this VM is created let's say this VM is supposed to create for my HR team. So any department like HR or you can say sales you can name it any who own the server basically they raise the ticket. Usually this ticket will come for department head for approval and from there it is come to the fin stream or you can say that your accounting team who actually create the budget how much you can spend to in this VM because Microsoft service is not free it's a chargeable so phop team you can say provision budget and this is a very dangerous part because once you have the budget you have to be limit inside yourself budget then it will finally come to the IT team so you have an IT team manager Now it team manager then choose you or choose me as an administrator who supposed to do this task. So then the ticket assigned to you. So I mean to say if you look at that this is a full flow how this ticket will done. I just give you a sample ticket for you to visualize how it might look like. It can be different in a actual world scenario. So for an example here I'm saying that I have a ticket number. Let's say it's related to Azure. So I have Azure and let's say it's for HR team. So it might be an HR and then some number and probably here it say that who has request by let's say HR manager or the name of the people and then the priority of the ticket let's say it's a high means it need an immediate action and then probably inside that it will give okay you have to give a name VM name let's say my name is BPIN so I'm saying that BPIN HR SRV 01 you should also have a like uh which OS so I'm saying that 2025 which is the latest one and then you probably have what is the size so number one as per the SKU you use the any D series machine you have to give two GPU and 8 GB memory. You cannot go beyond this is the limitation you have. And then it also decide what the username you give. So let's say HR admin and what the password you give. Let's say for example password atterate 1 2 3. I mean to say if you look at this whole ticket now this is how it sample look like. So anyone who is first time entering into the world of Azure administration and preparing to crack the interview remember this one because generally interviewer know that people come from lot of training and they do not carry the experience. So when someone asks can you create a VM you say yeah yeah yeah immediately I can create a VM and that is a time when you rejected you you do not understand I answer correctly why I get rejected because you try to demonstrate your knowledge and where the approach is absolutely different. So next time as an administrator if someone ask a question can you create a VM you say yes. How you create a VM in your company do not say that okay I go to the portal I do that first you say this is how I assign a ticket in the ticket it everything is mentioned and I follow the whatever is mentioned inside the ticket in the LMS you see on the left hand side there is something called practice lab. Now there is a two rule. There is a two rule because you have please make a note of these two rule. Rule number one whatever you create during your lab that is chargeable. Simply learn give $100 worth of credit to every account. So if you once you create any service after the lab delete it. If you do not delete it what will happen? It will continue running in a background. you are not using it and end of the day you consume all $100. So next day when you open a lab it will not launch. So rule number one after the practice delete the lab. Rule number two this lab is only valid for 6 hour. After 6 hour lab bill will close you have an option to relaunch the lab again. Okay. Practice and delete. Okay. Yeah. Once you are in this hit launch lab please. Click launch lab while your lab going to be launched. Now remember whether you are talking about Azure, AWS, Google or any other public site. Now a day it is mandatory you have to go with two factor authentication and there is something called authenticator app. Authenticator app Microsoft authenticator app. Just confirm that in your mobile you have a Microsoft h it's buffering it might be taking time by any chance if you do not have authenticator app if you do not have please download it from the if you are using Android phone from the Google store if you are using Mac from the Mac store it's called oh can you relaunch it anyone Anyone by any chance able to see the lab? Yeah, just click launch. If you get an error, please try it again one more time. Okay. Loaded for you. No Salman, it's for whole whole 10day journey even beyond that. Okay. Yes. So you get a username and password. This is the second screen. Now open incognito browser because you may be using your company laptop. So please everyone open incognito browser. Okay. Launch it now. Incognito or private browser. If you are on a company laptop, I do suggest strongly suggest use the company browser and disconnect your VPN. Okay. Now go back to your browser and type portal.io.com portal.ajure.com. This is the website. Okay. You get a username. So please copy the username and paste. Here you have a copy button. Yeah, you get a copy button. So copy and paste. Same way the password. portal.io.com I just pasted that. Yes. So it is after the username and password it it will ask for authenticator. So click next. You must have authenticator open in your mobile. Click next. Now scan the QR code from your authenticator app. and then click next. Once it is you have to put 78. Yes, very good. And done. So please remember if you're not able to do for any reason no worry we are going to do it every day. Second this session is recorded so you can even do it later on. Okay. So I am able to see. So in Microsoft Azure if you have to work on any service on the top of the bar you have to search that service. Okay. Which service we are going to work today? Virtual machine. So type virtual and you get virtual machine. Everyone able to see virtual machine. When you search and then you get create button on the top hit create button. create and you get virtual machine. Please create virtual machine. Click that. So there is a two thing which you have to remember something which we call subscription. Subscription is like you can think like a department like a sales HR and resource group is like a project within that department. So by default both are already fixed when you work in this tenant. So your subscription is always simply learn HOL which is called hands-on lab and some your some number and then in the resource group drop down and you will get a default resource group which is called ODL on demand lab drop-down resource group below. Everyone able to see ODL? Yes. Yes. Very good. Perfect. Now scroll down and it is called VM name. You all of you remember the VM name which is given in your ticket. It's your name. So start with G3 dash give a dash HR. Oh, it's I mean to say underscore huh HR perfect that's fine that's fine just HR underscore or dash give a dash only dash VM01 it is called naming convention okay so for example when you work in HCL probably the VM name there like HCL - NOI means noa hyphen sales - VM03. So this is how generally the naming convention people follow. Uh in our case we use our name then HR as a department and then VM as a 01. Okay. Now which reason? So this whole project we are going to execute in a west US2. Everyone please select West US2. West US2. In the availability option, in the availability option, select no availability or no infrastructure redundancy required. The first one because we only going to create a single VM. In the security type drop-down and select a standard in the image and select Windows Server the latest one which is 2025 Azure edition. I scroll down. Scroll down and look at the size. Are you everyone able to see the and what the size it is showing now? T series 2 CPU 8 GB memory. This is what is the ticket requirement. Correct. When you drop down when you drop down you can see more 100 of sizes which is available to us. Correct. We will talk about the size later on. But at this point of time as per the ticket 2 CPU 8 GB memory that is perfect now. Yes. go ahead and drop down below. So in the username I usually put my username but in a ticket it is given HR admin right everyone remember. So just type HR admin and password password at 1 2 3. Make the P capital P A S capital P A S W O R D at the rate 1 2 3. Same below. Confirm password. password at rate 1 2 3 for example you can type p a s w o r d at 1 2 3 most of the time in Microsoft it work yeah can you anyone of you uh and then in the inbound port and select HTTP also because we are going to host a website you already have a RDP select HTTP also Yeah, perfect. Now go next everyone. Please go next which is say disk. Now I scroll down. Remember this is a very crucial point in this tenant only disk allow is a standard HDD. I scroll uh drop down the OS disk. Below it say SSD. No, not not here. Below and you select the third one a standard H D. So uh yes exactly this is very very important. Please everyone disconnect your VPN company VPN because VPN will create lot of problem in the next screen and then hit review and create review and create others. We just discussed some fundamental okay and uh now we are in a module one which is called virtual machine. We just starting with the lab and then we discuss in theoretical. Click create now and then hit create button. Not assisted practice. I'm saying we are executing the lab. Uh just hold for a screen for a minute. So here you just click accept. This is Microsoft. Click accept. And congrats. How many of you are able to see this screen? Yo, that's a good one. Nice. Very nice. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Now, so whatever is pop up, just cross it. And now whatever you see on the screen, it is related to Windows. But just for your, you know, uh, understanding, make a note. Yes. Okay. Make a note for anyone who is called themsel Windows administrator not as your Windows administrator. Microsoft has give this tool. It's called server manager tool. If you want you can make a note. Server manager tool is used by Windows administrator to install, configure all the services like DNS, DCP, active directory, web server, file server, print server through the server manager itself. Okay. So now you have a server manager and you see that it's give you something which is called configure this local server. Correct? Everyone able to see bread and butter. Configure this local server. Correct? So if you remember what is our objective is to provide customer a server installed with IIS correct web server so that uh they can run their website inside that right this is what our objective is of. So now uh click add ro and feature. Just see if it it work for you because it's still too slow it look like. Yeah. Everyone click add ro and feature. Add ro and feature. And you get this wizard. Okay. Hit next. Next. If you close it in the windows, if you click the start button, can you click the start button? Click the start button on the server. So, click it here and you should able to see server manager. Just confirm quickly if you are able to see it. Click and then click that uh uh add ro and server. Okay, go back there. Go back to your wizard and then click next. Anyone able to see active directory DNS in the next screen by any chance? If you are new to IT probably in your company, you see that you have a something called active directory, you have a file server, you have a print server, you have a DNS server, you have a DCP server. So your winel team or Windows administration team, this is how they install and from where they install all these services. Our requirement is what a web server. So in the same screen when you scroll down last third you should able to see web server. Can you scroll down little bit whatever whatever the pop-up come just click add feature correct web server everyone say web server I means internet information services. All right. Get next. Next next. Install. Next. Next. Nothing you have to do. Just next. Just next. Just next. Just next. And install. Install. Okay. Anyone is a developer here by any chance? No. You know, HTML, Java, CSS. I share one very simple, you know, uh, HTML file for all of you. Just open it. Right click, open with. Open with click open with notepad. Choose another app and select notepad. This is a very very simple code which you have. Okay. Now where it is written www.simplylearn.com I think that line number 10, right? Just change it to ahar.com. or any company name a if you want to you know your own company the best.com for that let's go to all right so control s copy it go go back to your server just see that if the installation is done open server manager is still going on okay uh while I think that by this time You may have all this installation going on. Can you go to the C drive of the server? Everyone everyone go to C drive of the server. Open it. Huh? Open. And you get inet pub. You remember my diagram? Mhm. Double click and you get www root. All of you can you confirm if you are able to see inet pub and www root in the server. IAS is the server web server others which have the engine which can compile your code which can be HTML, Java, Python and it will render it as an JavaScript for your browser. So you can think something like that. It is a mechanism through which you can run your website. Right click the HTML file and say open with notepad. Control A delete everything whatever you have in this notepad and go back to your desktop or wherever you have saved my file. Copy the whole content and paste it back here. file. Save all. Yes. Come back to your Azure portal. No. Come back to Azure portal. Copy the public IP one more time. Paste in the browser. Remove this some word. Aar VM. Yeah, exactly. Enter. Yeah. Continue to the site. Not required edit. You directly copy and paste that will that is fine. Only is to test the website. Everyone open your mobile phone in the browser. Type the same IP and just confirm are you able to see the website. This all depend whether your I is perfectly installed or not. Can you go back to Azar on the VM and just to see if the is installed? Oh, should I click on close? Okay. All right. Done. Yeah. Installed for you now. Now, can you just check that whether your IP is working? Go back to I hope you open HTTP port right while creating a VM. You want me to type it here or? No, no, no. Have you opened HTTP port Azar? Okay. Can you just go back quickly to your uh Azure portal? Azure portal. Right. So, I'm here and go back to VM. To this VM or you want me to go to the VMs? VM. Yeah. VM. All right. Click the VM. How many of you are uh okay few of you are seeing okay click the VM click the VM name yeah and then you have a networking click networking left hand side network setting I think by creating the okay can you scroll down look at that you have not open RDP port right I think that you missed that step a okay no worry can So just click create port rule on the top inbound port rule and in the last where it say destination address 80 delete that on a little little top you see 80 delete and just make it a star this way you mean uh that's yes in the name just give anything like demo Below below is the name. No, not here. Not here. Not here. Below. Uhhuh. Just add because it's port is not open. Click add. Very good. Now go and refresh the website and again do it on a mobile phone. Yes. How many of you are able to see the on your PC? Yes. How many of you are able to see it on a mobile phone? Now let's quickly understand few of the core concept before we close on the session. Here we talked the SKU and the family. Now for you as an administrator for you as an administrator that is very important to understand which SKU we have to select. SKUM means a storage keeping unit. You can say that it is a licensing terminology. So when selecting a VM, one very important part is a purpose. Very important part is a purpose. So why you are creating a VM? What type of service you are going to install? For example, I said that in my VM in my VM I am going to install SQL or Oracle means I am going to install a database. So let's say I'm going to install a SQL server. Let me ask a question to you. If you have to install a SQL, my question is in this VM which component use more CPU, memory, disk or a network for a database. Please remember this is very very important and interesting point. So when you say that you are administrator, you also have to understand you also have to understand the type of application which you are planning to use. So for an example when you say a database like a SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Postgress SQL, MySQL, usually database is a store in a disk. You have a faster CPU, very faster memory, but your disk is too slow to read the data. You are running a command. Select a star from this table and it is reading reading reading. You have a faster CPU, faster memory. Will it work? It absolutely no. So you need a virtual machine which is a storage optimized No matter you are going to create in Google, AWS, Azure, Bami cloud or ASOC cloud it doesn't matter. I simply say I need a storage optimized VM. So it means that when I am going to create a VM, I need to define what type of exactly I want. a storage I want or VM I want. So I'll leave it as it is. I will just ask one of you to okay second let's say in this VM I am planning to install you can say that something which is image processing software like a autocad now which component in this VM utilize more CPU memory a storage or a network it's a image processing software Here remember your image load in memory. So in this server if your RAM is DDR2 and you are running it processor your image will not load. So you need memory virtual machine. Let's say in this VM a backup software like net backup. This backup take the backup of all other virtual machine running in my cloud. Which component I need which can give me remember backup means backup software means this server can take backup thousand of VM running across. So which component you need faster? Network. Absolutely network because it is pulling the data through network. So you will see that I need to have a network optimized. So there are multiple series which is available in you can say in my Azure or all other cloud platform as well. they have a different series name but every series dedicated to something else. For example, in Azure we have something which is called as a B series machine. Now whenever you see a B series machine anywhere you understand that B this B series machine is the most cheap in costing cheap in costing but it is not huge in production. So no production actually run the B series machine. Now for a general workload like we are creating just a simple web server. It is running in production but it is not uh utilizing any specific uh component. We have a D series machine. You just create D series machine if you remember and it is for general purpose. And then you have E series machine. E series machine which is memory optimized. So when we want to run AutoCAD we have to take E series machine. If I want a faster CPU we have a F-s series machine that is a CPU optimized. Same way when we want a storage optimized we have a L series machine. We have a L series machine. So now go back and create a machine again. Do not create just click the launch button here. Huh? Virtual machine. Yes. Virtual machine. Select the resource group. Let's scroll down. Let's scroll down. Keep us going down. And you now scroll down. Scroll down. You now have see all sizes. Can you click the see all sizes? So are you able to see now we have a few series of machine which is available for you. Few are blocked by the company policy that machine you cannot create. For example you have the you see that D series machine you have a general purpose machine right? It is the type and if you click the add a filter on the top so here let's say for example I want to see the type click type drop down drop down to type are you able to see compute optimized memory optimized storage optimized everyone able to see Now correct. So it means that when you get the instruction which type of machine you are supposed to create this is how you have to select it. Make sense? Make sense? Correct. So you have to select whether you like memory optimized machine, a storage optimized machine depend on your application work load. Correct? Yeah. Stop your sharing. Thank you Nia. So this is a day one dear friend and objective of day one number one to make you understand why you are here. What exactly an Azure administrator role look like? What is this Azure platform? Why any company use Azure platform for that matter? How Microsoft organize itself in a geography, region, ability zone and a data center. And to give you an idea about the very first service which which virtual server. So with that this is what we end now and I am calling going to call few of you at going to be a regular part of the whole session. So today I like to start with authors with first basic understanding that what Azure administrator do how their day look like because understanding job role is a pretty important before you even take any kind of a course because then you prepared by yourself to be projected as an administrator. ator. So we will take a look take a look how the day look like following up sessions and yesterday we understand one very important part that as an administrator you work within a boundary and when we say a boundary it means you cannot do what you want in Azure if you work in a company you have restrictions you have certain procedure so one of the way which we understand yesterday that you get instruction via email or in a more process oriented companies you get instruction via ticketing tool. So few of the ticketing tool which I think that most of you listed is service now remedy zera salesforce and so on. So what is my recommendation to you? You pick any tool of your choice. If you never seen that tool, no worry. Go through some of the free available videos on a YouTube just to get understanding so that when you face an interview and when you say that okay I actually work as an administrator and I get an instruction through the ticketing tool. At least you have some visualization in your mind that how the ticket look like how it uh uh get assigned to you. So essentially in cloud world whatever you do is not do by yourself. Most of the time this type of requirement come from a business side like an HR department like a sales department like a top management they have certain requirement and that requirement is come through the whole channel. For example a study we understand an HR department may have a requirement of a server where they want to deploy certain application like an HRMS. So what they do now HR department then use the ticketing tool create a ticket and that ticket first come to the department head because remember whatever you create in Microsoft Azure or any cloud platform for that matter it is chargeable. So department head must have to approve the cost and then when the department head approved the cost it will come to the finance team we call generally as a fin ops team who supposed to hey others good who supposed to validate whether this server cost can be budgeted it's not like that in uh our own mind okay I need to create a server so we can create in a companies every penny when they spend they have a budget. Okay, they have a budget. Then this come to finally the IT team. Anyone who is heading that IT team operation they then choose you. When we say you, you as an administrator, this ticket is assigned to you. And this is how the sample ticket look like. Like it may have a ticket number. It may have a information who raised this ticket. It may have a information that this ticket should be treated at the high priority and then the detail of the information like what the VM name, which operating system, what the size, what should be the username you put, what should be the password you put. So I mean to say everything is clearly illustrated and I as an administrator I only have to follow that instruction. You cannot go just deviation like that at least in the initial phases when you became senior when you get that experience then probably you can take certain decision by your own but not at the beginning level. So this flow you have to remember when you are sitting in front of an uh interviewer and you are claiming yourself that you are an administrator. The second very very important part which we understand yesterday that why customer should use Azure and why Azure boom in last four to five years there are so many benefits of Azure if you look at that you this is what you all describe Azure has a cost benefit Azure has a scalability benefit Azure has go global benefit so many benefits we have so I mean to say when you have so even if even if we have so many benefit then why customer I can say 10 years back not likely to use Azure why few customer only use Azure so one of the reason is it's a business versus application so the changing scenario in today's world that it's a appdriven business you see Uber it's a completely appdriven Netflix appdriven even the banks not you can say it's a appdriven the government look at if you are in India all the services of a government is available through an app so it's a appdriven business and if the app is down it it has a problem so when we say an app the problem with the app is if we want to use any of the app The app required to subscribe. If you want to use Amazon, if you want to use Uber, if you want to use Netflix, they said at first you subscribe. And what do I mean by subscribe? I put my name, my name, my date of birth, I put my national ID card. I use sometimes credit card, my address. This is very very personal to me. So these company where they store these informations. So usually they store this information in a data center and where is this data center? Few years back that data center is only in one country. So if it is a Indian company usually they have a data center in India. If it is a US company they have a data center in US. So just imagine the scenario when an Indian company go to a France say that okay I want to do a business in in your country. France said that all right so you are going to use app I say of course yes and you are store information I say yes where will you store information of course in India because we are in Indian company they say no what will happen if tomorrow these two country are not in a good relationship my citizen data is in your control and you can use it you can misuse it so that fear grow and that is the reason why almost every country in the as small as you can say like uh any country in uh you can take about which is a very smaller in size they are now demanding that you have to now store the data in my country so take the data center build the data center and we call that is data residency law India also have now data residency law before that we do not have but now we have a data residency law and this data residency law demand that if you want to do a business in my my country, store data here. And to a store data here, build a data center. To build a data center, you have to invest billion dollars. You have to take a real estate. You have to secure the building. You have to hire a staff. You have to hire uh you have to purchase so many servers, network devices. Huge investment. And what will happen if tomorrow my business did not fly? We go for a toss. What will I do with that investment? So that trigger adoption of Azure. So what is Azure? Is a cloud platform just like an AWS, just like an Google. And what this cloud provider do? They divide the whole world into manageable geography like a US, APAC, Europe and Middle East. And we understand yesterday G this geography selection is very much depend on the political alliances the cultural similarities within that specific region and within that geography they select certain region like for an example in Apac it select India no Sri Lanka for an example no Malaysia for an example so selection of the region depend on lot many factors we discussed some of the factor like the area should not be an earthquakerprone area. The area should be a coastal area, it should not be a landlock area and so on. And within the reason they select the cities like in India they select the cities like a Mumbai which is quite near to the coastal area. They select Chennai because it is quite close to the coastal area and within that they set up a data center. Now this data center host million customer services and what will happen for XY Z region if the data center is nonfunctional not not available it is down. So for that matter these cloud service provider create multiple data center within the same city and all these data center are connected with a very fast low latency fiber connectivity and as a customer now you have a choice. You can create a replica of your server in a multiple data center across the city. So that in case if one data center down, no worry, you still have an option to replicate your data to a second server, second data center. And then in the last we understand about a different job role like a company require to host its website on Microsoft Azure. This is the requirement of a company. So first which role come back come to understand this requirement is a solution architect. Now solution architect come into the picture. They try to understand decode this customer requirement through a lot of questionnaire and on the basis of questionaire your solution architect decide whether they go with VM storage app container and so on and after that they draw the diagram generally we call it as an HL diagram high level diagram in that diagram they select what type of SKU or size of the VM they select which virtual machine what should be the virtual machine name which operating system and a build type and which region and so on there's a lot of lot of factor they decide so yesterday we done this lab where we create a virtual machine with windows operating system we install IAS web server and in the is web server we get a folder inetpub www root and within that I can host all my java python.net net whatever code simply we use HTML yesterday and using the web virtual machine public IP we get the full now remember yesterday we talked about as an administrator you when you get a request to provision a virtual machine you need to pick the right SKU or the size for example a B series machine which is cheap but it is only for a testing workload any D series machine this is just to handle a generic workload like we create a print server active directory uh web server but when we need a machine which is require too much of memory like when we use a CAD software then we need E- machine when we need an application which uh need a very high CPU uses like any scientific application which do a calculation or a processing in a background you need F-S series machine so I mean to say there are different series of machine we have but this is not the end now as in Microsoft Azure when you create a VM when you supposed to create a VM there are few things which you have to understand in the background look at that what happened in a Microsoft data data center. So in a Microsoft data center basically they use in the background a same server like an IBM server, Dell server, HP server exactly same server. Now on each of the server Microsoft install their own virtualization software called hyperv. So if you go to any of the Microsoft data center by any chance you will surprised that it their setup is almost just like in my own company setup. Now in this hyperv they say that okay you want to create a VM. Now listen it very carefully that is a very very important part. So let's say I am one of the company called Infosys. I create a VM. So my VM will come and create on this hardware. this hardware. I'm just taking an example that let's say I am in forces. Now let's take a second company for an example. I am saying it's might be IBM or BRO. They create a VM. This VM is also come and sit in the same hardware. What does it means? It means that this VM is using shared infrastructure. All right. So when I say I share a same infrastructure means this server in the background connected with a network. Let's say they are connected with a network same network. My traffic also go from this network. Your traffic also go from this network. Hardware is shared, network is shared. So what the Microsoft say that now hey customer if you host your VM on a same hardware where other customer VM is also maybe sit or hosted. I will give you cost benefit. Cost benefit in the sense because you are sharing the same hardware and the same network. So I am going to charge your VM just for an example $1 per hour. So you will see a very cheap VM because in $1 per hour you are running your workload. But few of the customer they say no who is he sir is Infosys. I don't know who is Infosys. What will happen through this VM if someone run some malicious tool and it able to penetrate and enter into my VM? Is it possible? Microsoft said that I have taken all care of but still it can be possible even.1% chance they said I can't take I am FBI I am raw I am a bank I cannot allow I cannot take even a 0.1% chance that someone able to penetrate your security and enter into my VM so your cloud provider then say that okay nobody worry I am going to give you I am going to give you a separate hardware. This server is reserved for you and we call it as a dedicated host. We say that when you have a dedicated host this VM in this server only your VM can create it. Only your VM can create it. No other customer VM will create it. How will you charge me? Then I will not charge you a VM basis. I will simply charge you a hardware basis. So let's say this whole hardware is reserved for you. You create one VM, you create no VM, you create 10 VM, it's all up to you. I am going to charge this server cost, CPU, memory and whatever you have. So it's a dedicated out. Few customer they do not go with shared hardware, they go with dedicated hardware. But in this case still you have a problem because your network is still same. Your hardware is dedicated but when the traffic go out or in it go with the same hard or you can say same network switch. So few of the customer they are very adamant they said no I want everything is mine network is mine no other traffic should go through them. Then the Microsoft said that all right in that case I am going to give you a third option which is called isolated. Now in case of isolated you get dedicated your own network. No other traffic will pass from here. It's only you. So three option. So shared infrastructure, dedicated host and isolated. So what does it means now? So for an example when you create a VM a virtual machine like we did yesterday. Let me just select uh simply go to the size Now in the size are you able to see the isolated size? Now yes correct. So we have something called isolate size. Second, when you move further to the advanced section of your VM configuration, here you get something which is called as an host and you see that it say that hey do you want dedicated host? Perfect. So remember this is a very very important part from providing what customer need. Most of the time most of the time we only focus on share infrastructure but we have other two options dedicated host isolated host. Clear? Understand where this configuration come from? one, if you want isolated, go with the SKU, you want a dedicated, you can configure to the advanc option. Perfect. Second few customer or few few you can say that uh kind of a countries they say that they have a different reservation like for example US federal governments any agency you take they say that that's fantastic you give me isolated I love it but how I can create this isolated infra very simple sir Go to portal.ajure.com. Ah portal.ajure.com. This portal.io.com used by how many customer? Sir millions in the worldwide. What will happen if someone compromised portal. Itself I do not want your portal. Which is used by millions of people. I want dedicated to me. Only we can login. No one can. Germany federal agencies they say no I cannot use portal. Because it is used by millions of people what will happen if you someone compromise your portal and they enter into your data center. China they say no no portal. So in that case Microsoft say okay no worry customer for that I am going to create a complete new Azure portal with dedicated data center for you there only you can run your services no one others but you have to give me some business guarantee that that much utilization you will do and this is how Azure special reason come that is called Azure US Germany China. Look at that very interesting one. Right? So it means that when you are interacting with a different customer globally, you will see a different type of requirement coming and you say that hey as of now I only know how to create a VM. what what is this dedicated host concept and isolated concept and now what is this Azure US Azure Germany Azure China so for an example when you go to Google and just type here Azure China we call it as an special reason this is this is something which is only available in a China you cannot run portal.io.com Azure.com overall if you are in a Germany federal agencies it is only available Azure D that is a Germany when you go to uh federal government agencies who want to run their services on Microsoft Azure they have a totally different portal perfect so I mean to say when you understand about as an administrator because end of the day you are supposed to provision infrastructure to sub provide infrastructure you have to understand that what exactly the environment where I am going to work and this is how it will work there. Now another very very interesting part which you have to understand is how we can provide services to Microsoft or my uh you can say that my team my customer when they have something which is come as a projection I give you one thought process so let's say for an example and make a note that is very very important from your cracking the interview point of view and also if you are already on a higher level that let's say uh customer need 40 server 40 server in next six month for one of their site it and this is very tricky and you are an administrator. Remember they said that they need 40 server in next 6 month not now next 6 month. It is something like that. Last year we went to Singapore as a family vacation but much before that almost like a six five months before I already reserve hotel. Why I do that? Because I know that in the last moment if I try to reserve a hotel maybe the hotel not available or even if it is available it might be at a very different cost. So here you will get a projection now that you need a 40 server in the next 6 month or one of the site one of the project and you are an administrator. Why I am emphasizing that you are an administrator because accessing the portal doing the task is my responsibility. Someone can only give you direction but they can they do not have a understanding how to click and where to click. So you will get a instruction you will get a provision that hey administrator please be ready we need 40 server in next 6 month anytime maybe in March maybe in April maybe in a June be ready do not come with the excuse in the last moment sir this cannot be happen so one of the very important thing which you all have to understand here is when we say Microsoft Azure AWS Google they build their data they build their data center. This is their data center. In the data center they have physical servers okay in that physical server you they create VM but how many server they have? Let's say for example Microsoft open their data center in Hyderabad and in that Hyderabad they started their data center with I'm just giving a very hypothetical example of 1,000 Dell server. Usually in 1,00,000 Dell server you can hypothetically if you go with a 2GB RAM you can create about a 10,000 VMs on all these 10,000 and remember this data center is not exclusively for you it's for millions of customer so I as a customer who am I let's say I am simply I have another customer let's say for example infy another customer maybe XY Z now simply learn say that okay hey Microsoft I need 10 server Microsoft say all right I I can give you I have a capacity of a 10,000 server I give you 10 server to you infosys Microsoft I need 100 server you say yes I have a capacity I can give it to you but the problem is how many customer it can serve so let's say for an example Microsoft say that a customer who want to probably come to my come to my data center uh to host their service I am going to give them number of VM which they can create and they designed something called just focus on what we are learning because if you miss this one will be difficult right because you won't get all this information in any of the document or any of the lecture okay so what Microsoft do now then Microsoft by default enables something called kota this is default kota and by default the kota is you can have let's say for example D series server every customer can create maximum 10 this is the default kota you go to Azure you go to AWS you go to Google they set this default code and you are administrator and what will happen if you are not aware about that you create 1 VM good 2 VM good 7 VM good 9 VM good 10 VM Good 11 VM you can't create. Yeah, you can't create. Why? Because there is a kota and you are not aware and when you are not aware you are in trouble now. So when you go to a Microsoft and when you or go ws or go to Google when you type kota you will see there's a whole lot of kota which is available. For example, when I say how much machine I can create for let's say my uh US region or maybe in the you can say Mumbai region. Now one of the best part is when you are making or checking your kota which is default 10 you have to increase your kota size. So you can just launch a new kota request and say that I want probably this much of kota which will uh you know going to uh give me and kota for everything if you look at that kota for your server kota for your and it just raise one request and request whether accept by Microsoft or not it depend no guarantee so depend upon your customer your agreement with Microsoft they will give you that okay how much kota you can you can go ahead and increase so very very first thing. What you as an administrator request for Kota increase. But as I say, increasing the kota is not a guarantee that Microsoft will give you the VM on the same cost. And why it is important now? So Microsoft said that there is a multiple way you can get my service. The popular one we call it as an on demand price. on demand means I just give you a very simple way to understand let's say I am creating a VM and I just go with aside here and let the pricing to be load Everyone able to see the pricing here? Last column at my screen. Look at that. The machine which we all create yesterday is a D2SV3 which give you two CPU 8 GB memory and the cost coming around $70 per month. $70 per month. and very surprised after 1 hour after 1 hour when you again check you might see a difference it can be 71 it can be 69 it can be 75 it's a dynamic Microsoft reserve the right to increase the price of their services so and as I said yesterday that for Azure everything is budgeted in the beginning of the financial year so what will happen even if you have a kota increase and when you try to create machine after 6 month or within 6 month you get totally different escalation pricing and then your management will catch you. Dear administrator I told you 6 month back I need 40 server and today you are coming back and say that yes 40 server can be created but price will go now doublefold. So the second one you have to in a more sales language we call something which is called as an monetary commitment. Even if you do not heard all these word please make a note because this is the real time scenario when people use this terminology. When we say a monetary commitment it is something like that I am as a customer I am giving assurance to the Microsoft. Hey Microsoft, in the next one year I am going to use your service worth $1 million. When Microsoft understand that okay you are committing as a customer that you will use my service worth rupees 1 million. So as a gesture I said that okay customer. So I am going to give you 20% discount. But remember the word commitment that is a very very important one and when you actually into the licensing terminology of the Microsoft or AWS or uh Google this carry weightage if you miss your commitment for one year next year Microsoft will give you totally different pricing next year only. So as a customer it is your it is responsibility that we have to honor the commitment because on the basis of that commitment I get certain discount. So to have a monetary commitment one is the license agreement. Second again as a technical person you can request for reservation. So you can request for reservation of your services. This is the reservation which we say all right dear customer I am going with a virtual machine and whether I am going with the D1 series virtual machine D series virtual machine just give me a second let me to load it. Huh? BCI just one minute. Let's say I am selecting this one as a as a standard B series machine for an example and I am just making that I want 40 server for you. Whatever the price come to me that price get lock even if the fluctuation come it doesn't work. So by just selecting any of these move forward I'll say that okay this is what I make a provision. Please remember I'm not purchasing right now making a provision. So second very very important part request for reservation give your monetary commit. So requesting for a kota increase requesting for a reservation that is a very very important part all of you have to understand when you are working in a cloud as an administrator quotation reason for there but we have a different scenario now here what I am saying now let's say customer need one server now committed to use for at least one or 3 year. Sometime the urgent scenario happen right it was not planned but all of a sudden you have a request that hey can you create a server whether the server is temporary mean just for 1 day 2 3 day 5 day 1 week or whether the server which you emergency provisioned is going to run for next 1 to 3 years uh landing zone others actually be discussed in ag 305 but let me see if uh on a day number four if I can throw some light to you. Okay, perfect. Now, so look at that. Here the scenario change. You suddenly get a request. It was not planned at all that hey you have to create one server, two server, three server and that server going to use for next 1 2 3 years because it is not a part of monetary commitment. So by default it is go on on demand price. On demand price means if you create a VM today it show you $1 for one hour tomorrow it might show you $2 for one hour after six month it might be $3 for one hour and then you will get caught because as an administrator you also have to understand the budget which is allocated to your organization your your department you cannot cross the budget you say what can I do so almost every cloud service provider almost every cloud service provider they give you a fantastic option be it in AWS, whether JT in a Google they say that select your size whatever you want and then run Azure a spot discount on the spot. on the spot. So here you maybe you can fix that. Okay, right now the price of my VM is going for for example $10. So I am just giving that if it is going beyond $12 just probably evict my node so that or just shut down my server so that I will aware that it is now going beyond. Usually usually when you go with the spot discount whatever the price current now right now that will be locked for you. Microsoft generally honor it. Honor in the sense they generally do not even the fluctuation happen on the real price it does not give you impact but at the same times Microsoft said that because you have not make it as a commitment I honor a spot discount to you. you can enjoy your VM for the next one year. I try my best try my best to give you the same discount already applicable to you. But from the Microsoft side, if let's say the price increased doublefold, then I cannot honor you. Then you have a choice. Either you can make a final monetary commitment if you want to hold that price or I will let your VM shut down and when you are start your VM then it will be on the on demand pricing. The next thing is a spot discount. Now be it in Azure, be it in Google, be it in AWS, it doesn't matter. Same process. Request for the kota increase. Request for the reservation. Understand monetary commitment and going for urgent address of any of the server services. You as an administrator you must understand when to use what. Sometimes you get instruction, sometimes you may not get a instruction. Also since you work in a team, you can add a value. You can ask a question. Okay, you are saying that you are planning to use SAP in the next six month. Sir, can I re can I increase the kota? Can I make a reservation request? Because all this is going to take a commitment value, a face value. So your action may down the reputation of a company in front of Microsoft. Hey look this customer, they say that they will use $1 million and they are still on a 100k. Next time this customer I will not give any discount. No lenency. You are in problem. Now another very very important part which you need to understand as an administrator how the OS license work here. So remember this is a very very tricky part when you are working and planning for a deployment deployment in uh you can say a Microsoft world like for an example for an example I give you an idea that I already have Windows let's say 2019 license and as a company I already have a 100 license be are technically called such type of licensing as a onprem license or on paper license. On paper license, let's say as a company I already have a 100 Windows Server 2019 license. Now I am planning to create a VM in Microsoft cloud. I'm talking…

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