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Duration

5 Days

30 CPD hours

This course is intended for

This course is intended for IT professionals who have some experience working with Windows Server, and who are looking for a single five-day course that covers storage and compute technologies in Windows Server. This course will help them update their knowledge and skills related to storage and compute for Windows Server.

Overview

Prepare and install Windows Server and plan a server upgrade and migration strategy. Describe the various storage options, including partition table formats, basic and dynamic disks, file systems, virtual hard disks, and drive hardware, and explain how to manage disks and volumes. Describe enterprise storage solutions, and select the appropriate solution for a given situation. Implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication. Install and configure Microsoft Hyper-V, and configure virtual machines. Deploy, configure, and manage Windows and Hyper-V containers. Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server. Plan, create, and manage a failover cluster. Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines. Configure a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster, and plan for an NLB implementation. Create and manage deployment images. Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations.

This five-day course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing storage and compute by using Windows Server, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available and applicable to Windows Server.

Although this course and the associated labs are written for Windows Server 2022, the skills taught will also be backwards compatible for Server 2016 and Server 2019.

The course and labs also focus on how to administer Windows Server using not only the traditional tools such as PowerShell and Server manager, but also Windows Admin Center.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of networking fundamentals.

An awareness and understanding of security best practices.

An understanding of basic Active Directory concepts.

Basic knowledge of server hardware.

Experience supporting and configuring Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10 or Windows 11.

1 - Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads

Introducing Windows Server

Preparing and installing Server Core

Preparing for upgrades and migrations

Migrating server roles and workloads

Windows Server activation models

2 - Configuring local storage

Managing disks in Windows Server

Managing volumes in Windows Server

3 - Implementing enterprise storage solutions

Overview of DAS, NAS, and SANs

Comparing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Understanding iSNS, DCB, and MPIO

Configuring sharing in Windows Server

4 - Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication

Implementing Storage Spaces

Managing Storage Spaces

Implementing Data Deduplication

5 - Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines

Overview of Hyper-V

Installing Hyper-V

Configuring storage on Hyper-V host servers

Configuring networking on Hyper-V host servers

Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines

Managing virtual machines

6 - Deploying and managing containers

Overview of containers in Windows Server

Deploying Windows Server and Hyper-V containers

Installing, configuring, and managing containers by using Docker

7 - High availability and disaster recovery

Defining levels of availability

Planning high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines

Backing up and restoring by using Windows Server Backup

High availability with failover clustering in Windows Server

8 - Implementing failover clustering

Planning a failover cluster

Creating and configuring a new failover cluster

Maintaining a failover cluster

Troubleshooting a failover cluster

Implementing site high availability with stretch clustering

9 - Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server Hyper-V

Overview of the integration of Hyper-V with failover clustering

Implementing Hyper-V VMs on failover clusters

Key features for VMs in a clustered environment

10 - Implementing Network Load Balancing

Overview of NLB

Configuring an NLB cluster

Planning an NLB implementation

11 - Creating and managing deployment images

Introduction to deployment images

Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT

Virtual machine environments for different workloads

12 - Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations

WSUS overview and deployment options

Update management process with WSUS

Overview of Windows PowerShell DSC

Overview of Windows Server monitoring tools

Using Performance Monitor

Monitoring event logs

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