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Organizing Azure Resources with Customized Azure Portal and Cloud Shell

In this lab, you will deploy resources and then organize them using the Azure portal and/or Azure Cloud Shell. Tasks will include: - Deploying a virtual machine - Deploying a storage account (using Azure Portal, Azure Cloud Shell, or both) - Creating root and nested management groups - Creating a dashboard and making it public (sharing)

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Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 2h 0m
Published
Clock icon Apr 20, 2023

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Deploy an Azure VM

    Deploy a virtual machine (VM) with the specifications below. Each heading refers to a deployment tab. Leave all defaults except when indicated below.

    Basics
    • Resource Group: you choose
    • Name: psclhtgswa
    • Region: same as your resource group
    • Security type: Trusted launch virtual machines
    • Image: Ubuntu Server 20.04 or newer
    • Size: B1s
    • Authentication type: Password
    • Username: cloud_user
    • Password: Go-2-the-Cloud!
    • Redundancy: Locally-redundant storage (LRS)
    Disks
    • OS disk type: Standard SSD (locally-redundant storage)

  2. Challenge

    Deploy an Azure Storage Account

    Deploy a storage account with the specifications below. Each heading refers to a deployment tab. Leave all defaults except when indicated below.

    Basics
    • Resource Group: you choose
    • Name: pslabhtgswa<INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBERS>
    • Region: same as your resource group
    • Performance: Standard
    • Redundancy: Locally-redundant storage (LRS)

    If you prefer, you can deploy via the Azure Cloud Shell using one of the following command line syntax (replace <INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBERS> with random numbers so the name is unique).

    Az CLI az storage account create --name pslabhtgswa<INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBERS> --resource-group <RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME> --location [location] --sku Standard_LRS --encryption-services blob

    Azure PowerShell New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Name pslabhtgswa<INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBERS> -Location $location -SkuName Standard_LRS -Kind StorageV2

  3. Challenge

    Organize Azure Resources

    Ensure the following characteristics are true:

    • Create two new management groups inside of the tenant root group:
      • MG1<INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBERS> and MG2<INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBERS>
    • Create a nested management group inside of one of the new management groups:
      • MG1<INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBERS>a or MG2<INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBERS>b

  4. Challenge

    Create and Share Dashboard for Resources

    Create a dashboard that displays the following:

    • Available storage consumption on at least two storage accounts (Avg Used capacity)
    • Current disk operations on at least 2 storage accounts (Sum Transactions)
    • Current CPU usage of VM (Percentage CPU)
    • Current network traffic of VM (in or out)
    • Current memory consumption of VM (Avg Available Memory)

    Share the created dashboard to the public space (non-personal).

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