In this module, you will look at how to design an application for hybrid deployment between on-premises and Microsoft Azure. You will consider how the web tier must be made available in the event of an outage as well as how to configure SQL Server Always-on Availability Groups to deploy and failover between both locations. At the end of this module, you will be better able to design a hybrid disaster recovery solution between an on-premises VMWare environment and Azure. In addition, you will design a SQL Server scale-out solution, protect database backups from local failures, archive cold data from an on-premises SQL Server, and perform end-to-end encryption on sensitive application data.

In this module, you will build a disaster recovery site for an on-premises environment. You will enhance the existing database solution to support a hybrid cloud-based disaster recovery solution, implement an archiving strategy and a backup/restore strategy designed to protect data. At the end of this module, you will be better able to design and use availability sets, Managed Disks, SQL Server Always on Availability Groups, Stretch DB and SQL Server Managed Backup.