Azure Local

Azure Local training for your team

Your administrators should be able to run the cluster without us. We train them on your environment, using the material from the Azure Local Consultant Academy.

What we do

Scope of the work

  • Architecture: how the cluster, storage and networking fit together
  • Deployment: the steps, the validation and what goes wrong
  • Daily operations: updates, monitoring, virtual machines and capacity
  • Troubleshooting: reading the logs and applying the runbooks
  • A session on your own as-built design
What you receive
  • Workshops tailored to your team's level
  • Exercises on your cluster or a lab
  • Access to the academy material for continued study

Billed at $150.00 per hour. Ask Keith for an estimate.

Field notes

What we check first.

Train on your design

Generic training fades. A walk through your own cluster and its runbooks stays.

Operations before theory

Teams need the monthly update and the first response to an alert before they need storage internals.

Academy

The public academy at academy.gusitllc.com carries the course outline and reference material.

How an engagement runs

Four steps, written down.

I
Scope

A call with Keith

You describe the goal, the estate and the deadline. Keith turns it into a written scope with an hour estimate at the hourly rate.

II
Design

A written design by Gus

Gus reviews the environment and gives you a written design with each decision and its reason.

III
Build

Hands-on implementation

Gus implements in your tenant and your racks, remotely or on site, with every change logged as it is made.

IV
Hand over

Documents and a named contact

You receive the as-built record and the runbooks. Keith stays on as your account and project manager.

Questions

Asked before every engagement.

Who is the training for?

Windows and virtualization administrators taking over an Azure Local cluster, and consultants who will deploy it.

Remote or in person?

Either. Remote sessions work well with a shared lab; in-person workshops are available in the New York area.

What does the consulting cost?

Consulting is billed at $150.00 per hour. Keith sends a written hour estimate after the scoping call, and work starts when you approve it.

Rate and contacts

One rate. Two people.

Consulting is billed at $150.00 per hour. Keith runs sales, project management and your account. Gus does the architecture, the design and the implementation.

Hourly rate
$150.00

per consulting hour, for every consulting service

Sales, project management and account management

Keith

keith@apexvanguard.ai
Architecture, design and implementation

Gus

gus@gusitllc.com

Independent practice, not affiliated with Microsoft. Azure Local consulting is part of the infrastructure consulting practice of Gus IT LLC, an independent firm. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation, Dell Technologies, Fortinet or any other vendor named on this site. Microsoft, Azure, Azure Local, Azure Stack HCI, Azure Arc, AKS, Azure Virtual Desktop, Hyper-V and Windows Server are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Dell, PowerEdge, PowerSwitch and iDRAC are trademarks of Dell Inc. Microsoft Entra, Active Directory, SQL Server, FSLogix and BitLocker are also trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Fortinet and FortiGate are trademarks of Fortinet, Inc. VMware and vSphere are trademarks of Broadcom Inc. Kubernetes is a registered trademark of The Linux Foundation. PostgreSQL is a trademark of the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other marks belong to their respective owners and are used for description only. Product capabilities follow each vendor's documentation and change between releases; we confirm the current state during scoping.