Azure Local Administrator

This intensive 3-day hands-on course delivers comprehensive training on Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI), empowering IT professionals, cloud infrastructure engineers, and systems administrators to deploy, configure, and operate hyper-converged infrastructure with confidence. Through 18+ hours of practical labs using real-world tooling and scenarios, participants gain production-ready expertise across the complete Azure Local lifecycle—from initial cloud-based deployment and Arc integration through advanced networking with Network ATC, storage optimization, lifecycle management, security hardening with BitLocker, and performance validation with VMFleet. The curriculum covers critical real-world scenarios including migrating VMware vSphere workloads to Azure Local, expanding clusters by adding nodes, executing in-place upgrades from legacy versions, implementing workload protection and disaster recovery strategies, and troubleshooting complex deployment and update failures. Participants work with the official Microsoft AzureLocalHOLs repository and deploy clusters in Azure-hosted lab environments, ensuring hands-on experience with the same tools and workflows used in enterprise production environments. By course completion, attendees will independently deploy Azure Local clusters via the Azure portal, master intent-based networking configuration, manage platform updates through Lifecycle Manager, secure data at rest with BitLocker encryption, baseline storage performance for capacity planning, and troubleshoot common failures across deployment, networking, and update scenarios. The course integrates 12 expert tips and tricks covering environmental validation, extension troubleshooting, cross-cluster migration, and offline patching—providing immediately applicable knowledge for day-to-day operations. Ideal for organizations adopting Azure Local for edge computing, hybrid cloud infrastructure, or VDI workloads, this course bridges the gap between Azure Stack HCI fundamentals and production-ready operational expertise. Prerequisites include Windows Server fundamentals, basic PowerShell skills, and Azure portal familiarity.