Deploying and Managing Windows Workloads on Google Cloud

This two-day course is authorized by Google, and teaches you all you need to know when it comes to configuring, deploying, operating and managing Microsoft Windows® workloads on Google Cloud.

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Course Overview

2 day course
Certificate of Attendance
Private
Partner of the Year

As a Google Cloud Partner, we’ll use lectures and labs to guide you through the process of transferring Microsoft Windows deployments to Google Cloud.

During the session, you’ll learn how to configure identity solutions including Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory as well as how to deploy Windows workloads to Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine. We’ll also teach you how to manage and operate Windows workloads with Cloud Console, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.

Our Deploying and Managing Windows Workloads on Google Cloud course is available as a private training session that can be delivered live online or at a location of your choice in the UK.

What you'll learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Plan and configure Identity Management in Google Cloud
Deploy SQL Server workloads in Google Cloud
Manage and operate Microsoft Windows workloads in Google Cloud

Deploy Microsoft Windows workloads in Google Cloud
Automate the deployment of cloud environments for Windows workloads

Course agenda

Module 1: Introducing Windows Workloads on Google Cloud

Overview of Google Cloud
Options for Windows workloads
Windows licencing in Google Cloud

Module 2: Identity for Windows Workloads

Overview of Cloud identity
Cloud directory sync
Authentication best practices

Module 3: Migrating Windows Application VMs

Migration types
Choosing VMs to migrate
Migrate for Compute Engine
Migration Waves
SQL Server on GCE
HA for SQL Server

Module 4: Automating Deployments of Windows Workloads

Infrastructure as code
Terraform
Cloud Marketplace

Module 5: Optimizing costs for Windows Applications

Custom machines
Premium images
Patch management
Sole tenants
SQL Server on Linux

Module 6: Modernizing with Managed Services

Introduction to Cloud SQL
Deploying SQL Server on Cloud SQL
Maintenance and backups on Cloud SQL
Managed service for Microsoft Active Directory

Module 7: Modernizing with Containers

Introduction to containers
Windows containers on GCE
Introduction to GKE
Creating a GKE cluster with Windows nodes
Migrate for Anthos

Module 8: Cloud Operations with Windows Workloads

Introduction to Operations Suite
Introduction to monitoring
Compute Engine monitoring
Cloud SQL monitoring
GKE monitoring
Introduction to Logging

Who it's for

This course is suitable for Windows infrastructure operators and admins, solutions architects, and cloud engineers.

Prerequisites

In order to take this course, system-operator or administrator experience with Microsoft Windows is necessary. You should also be familiar with Google Cloud, or have completed the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure for Azure course.

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