Continuous operations and improvements in the cloud is key for successful CloudOps and requires the appropriate components, tools, and best practices to be implemented. Cloud virtualization platforms offer the capability to provide highly redundant, failure-proof systems through the use of hardware and software components.
In this course, you'll explore the concept and objective of redundancy and the hierarchical network design used to attempt to eliminate single points of network failure in the network. Part of the discussion includes the key redundancy architectures and factors to consider in providing redundancy in the network design. You'll also examine the features of various cloud computing architectures and differentiate among redundancy management approaches in diversified deployment environments.
Next, you'll investigate the need for redundancy in data centers and outline the concept of site redundancy and the role of geo-redundancy in resolving problems of unused computing resources. You'll then identify the need for data replication to achieve redundancy, the features of asynchronous and synchronous replication, along with the conceptual aggregated work path for cloud services to implement redundancy and enable end-to-end availability.
identify the prevalent issues that cause downtime within infrastructure layers and outline how to manage challenges by adopting a solution architecture powered by redundancy
describe the concept and objective of redundancy along with the major forms of redundancy that help increase system reliability
describe hierarchical network design and outline how it uses core, distribution, and access layers with redundancy to eliminate a single point of failure in the network
recognize the prominent redundancy architectures that can be used to manage reliability in standard architectures and improve availability and resiliency
list and describe the features of various types of cloud computing architectures with a focus on single-site, non-redundant, and redundant architectures
recognize the differences among redundancy management approaches in diversified deployment environments with a focus on legacy and single cloud
recognize the similarities among and limitations and benefits of various redundancy management approaches in diversified deployment environments with a focus on legacy, single cloud, and multi/hybrid cloud target configurations
recall the key factors that need to be considered in network redundancy in order to add redundancy to network design
recognize the need for redundancy in data centers along with the various architectures that help eliminate the risks of downtime
define the concept of site redundancy and outline the role of geo-redundancy in resolving the problems of unused computing resources
recognize the need for data replication to achieve redundancy and describe the features of asynchronous and synchronous replication that help enable data replication
define the concept of availability in terms of the impact on both the enterprise and the end users or consumers
recognize the conceptual aggregated work path for cloud services that can be adopted to implement redundancy and enable end-to-end availability