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Module 01: Planning & Sizing

Level: L200 | Duration: 2 hours | Prerequisites: Module 00 | Hands-on: Presentation + design exercise

Module Status

Framework module — content in development.

Learning Objectives

  • Plan an Azure Local deployment given workload, capacity, and connectivity requirements
  • Make appropriate hardware, network, and storage design decisions
  • Choose between connected and disconnected architectures
  • Plan multi-rack deployments
  • Calculate cluster capacity for storage, compute, and growth

Topics

  1. Connected vs. Disconnected Architectures — when to choose each
  2. Multi-Rack Deployments — design considerations and constraints
  3. Workload Requirements Analysis — sizing for VMs, AKS, AVD
  4. Hardware Sizing — node count, CPU, memory, storage
  5. Network Design Decisions — Network ATC intents, fabric topology
  6. Storage Design Decisions — disk tiers, fault tolerance, capacity planning
  7. Identity, Subscription, and Region Planning

Hands-on

Design exercise: Given a customer scenario (sizing requirements, workloads, constraints), produce a sizing recommendation and design diagram. Walk through the design as a group.