Microsoft Azure Monitoring & Management: The Definitive Guide

by Avinash Valiramani

Overview

Proven best practices for success with every Azure monitoring and management service

For cloud environments to deliver optimal value, their monitoring and management services must be designed, deployed, and managed well. Leading cloud consultant Avinash Valiramani shows how to simplify administration, reduce downtime, control cost, solve problems faster, and prepare for any workload in any environment. Explore detailed, expert coverage of Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, Azure Monitor, Azure Network Watcher, Azure Portal, Azure Cloud Shell, Azure Service Health, Azure Cost Management, and more. Whatever your role in delivering efficient, reliable cloud services, this best practice, deep dive guide will help you make the most of your Azure investment.

Leading Azure consultant Avinash Valiramani shows how to:

• Back up on-premises, Azure-based, and other cloud workloads for short- and long-term retention
• Implement simple, stable, cost-effective business continuity/disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery
• Discover, assess, and migrate diverse workloads to Azure, VMs, web apps, databases, and more
• Monitor all Azure applications, VMs, and other deployed services centrally via Azure Monitor
• Track, troubleshoot, and optimize networking for IaaS resources
• Create and manage anything from single-service solutions to complex multi-service architectures
• Run Azure Cloud Shell's cloud-native command line from any device, anywhere
• Monitor service health, workload levels, service layer resources, and availability

Also look for these Definitive Guides to Azure success:

• Microsoft Azure Compute: The Definitive Guide
• Microsoft Azure Networking: The Definitive Guide
• Microsoft Azure Storage: The Definitive Guide

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780137571024
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	11/24/2022
Series:	IT Best Practices - Microsoft Press
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Avinash Valiramani is an IT Infrastructure and Cloud Architect with more than 16 years of expertise in areas of Microsoft Technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, SCCM, Intune, and Hyper-V. He is a certified Architect on Azure Infrastructure, Azure Artificial Intelligence, Azure Security, and Microsoft365. He has been working primarily with large to mid-size enterprises globally in designing their Cloud Architecture, planning migration strategies and executing complex implementations. Avinash is publishing four books as part of the Microsoft Azure Best Practices series, including this current one, collating real-world experiences to deliver a comprehensive and concise experience for new and budding technologists. Avinash also holds certifications in Amazon AWS, Barracuda, Citrix, VMware, and many other IT/Security industry certifications to complement his Microsoft expertise. He has authored a course on Azure Virtual Desktop for O'Reilly Media and is planning many others in the coming months. You can follow Avinash on Twitter at @avaliramani and he will soon be posting frequent blogs on www.avinashvaliramani.com and www.cloudconsulting.services.

Table of Contents

About the author xi

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction to Azure monitoring and management services xiii

Chapter 1 Azure Backup 1

Overview 1

Key features 3

Design and deployment concepts and considerations 4

Recovery Services vault 4

Backup Center 5

Data plane 6

Management plane 6

Backup agents 7

Supported backup types 7

Backup policy 8

Backup compression 8

Backup monitoring 9

Alerts 9

Security 9

Azure Backup walkthrough 10

Best practices 21

Chapter 2 Azure Site Recovery 23

Overview 23

Azure-to-Azure disaster recovery 25

Replication policy 25

Data security 26

Muiti-VM consistency 26

Target environment configuration 26

Failover and tailback 27

Test and planned failovers 27

Network security 28

Azure-to-Azure disaster recovery walkthrough 28

Hyper-V-to-Azure disaster recovery 40

Replication components 41

Replication policy 41

Data security 44

Failover and tailback 44

Test, planned, and unplanned failovers 44

Network requirements 45

Hyper-V-to-Azure disaster recovery walkthrough 45

Recovery plans 61

Best practices 67

Chapter 3 Azure Migrate 69

Overview 69

Key features 70

Assessment tools 70

Migration tools 71

Deployment concepts and considerations 72

Azure Migrate Discovery and Assessment Tool 72

Azure Migrate Server Migration Tool 74

Networking 76

Scaling 77

Azure Migrate walkthrough 78

Best practices 110

Chapter 4 Azure Monitor 111

Overview 111

Key benefits 111

Concepts and considerations 112

Data types 113

Data collection 115

Data segregation 116

Data retention 116

Data redundancy 116

Data security 117

Data visualization 117

Data export 122

Alerts 122

Azure Monitor walkthrough 123

Best practices 149

Chapter 5 Azure Network Watcher 151

Overview 151

Key features 153

Connection Monitor 153

Topology Monitor 161

IP Flow Verify 163

NSG Diagnostic 166

Next Hop 169

Effective Security Rules 171

VPN Troubleshoot 173

Packet Capture 176

Connection Troubleshoot 179

NSG Flow Logs 183

Diagnostic Logs 187

Chapter 6 Azure Portal 191

Overview 191

Key features 193

Customization and usability concepts and considerations 194

Azure Portal settings 194

Custom dashboards 197

Azure Marketplace 200

Help and support 202

Best practices 207

Chapter 7 Azure Cloud Shell 209

Overview 209

Key features 209

Usage concepts and considerations 210

Azure file share 210

Azure drive 213

Cloud Shell Editor 213

Embed Cloud Shell 213

Cloud Shell deployment in a vNET 213

Azure Cloud Shell walkthrough 214

Best practices 222

Chapter 8 Azure Service Health 225

Overview 225

Azure Status 226

Service Health 227

Service Health walkthrough 228

Resource Health 235

Health status indicators 236

Create a Resource Health alert walkthrough 237

Check a resource's health walkthrough 241

Best practices 243

Chapter 9 Azure Cost Management 245

Overview 245

Key features 245

Design and deployment concepts and considerations 246

Cost planning 246

Budgets 247

Cost Analysis 250

Advisor recommendations 258

Index 267