Overview
After completing this online training course, students will be able to:
- Prepare and install Nano Server, a Server Core installation, 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.
- Deploy, configure, and manage Windows and Hyper-V containers.
- Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server 2016.
- 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.
Everyone with basic knowledge of computer
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01. Chapter 1 Installation, Upgrade, and Migration of Workloads and Servers
- Requirements for Windows Server 2016
- Installing Windows Server 2016
- Installing Windows Core
- Basic Configuration and Management of Windows Server 2016
- Basic Configuration and Management of Windows Core
- PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Upgrading to Windows Server 2016
- Migrating to Windows Server 2016
- License Activation Models
- Planning for Nano Server
- Installing Nano Server
- Basic Configuration and Management of Nano Server
02. Chapter 2 Local Storage Configuration
- Configuring Disks and Volumes
- VHD, VHDX, and VHDS files
- NTFS and ReFS
- NFS and SMB Share Configuration
- File and Folder Permissions
03. Chapter 3 Enterprise Storage Solutions
- Storage Pools
- RAID Storage
- Tiered Storage
- Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE
- iSCSI Configuration
- Data Center Bridging (DCB)
- Multi-Path IO (MPIO)
04. Chapter 4 Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
- Storage Spaces
- Storage Replicas
- Server-to-Server
- Cluster-to-Cluster
- Stretch Clusters
- Data Deduplication Configuration
- Monitoring Data Deduplication
- Backup and Recovery with Deduplication
05. Chapter 5 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration
- Hardware Requirements
- Compatibility Requirements
- Hyper-V Installation
- Hyper-V Upgrades
- Virtual Machine Management
- Windows PowerShell Direct
- Nested Virtualization
- Hot Swap RAM
- NUMA and Dynamic Memory
- Integration Services
- Linux Integration Services (LIS)
- FreeBSD Integration Services (BIS
- VM Conversion
- Hyper-V Export/Import
- Discrete Device Assignment (DDA)
- VHD/VHDX/VHDS Creation
- Differencing Disks
- Pass-Through Disks
- Checkpoints
- Production Checkpoints
- Virtual Fibre Channel
- Storage Quality of Service
- Hyper-V Networking
- Virtual Network Interface Cards
- Virtual Switches
- MAC Address Spoofing
- Network Isolation
- NIC Teaming
- Virtual Machine Queues
- Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
- Switch Embedded Teaming (SET)
- Bandwidth Management
06. Chapter 6 Windows and Hyper-V Container Deployment and Management
- Installation Requirements
- Installation and Configuration of Windows Server Container Host
- Container Host on Windows Server Core or Nano Server
- Docker Installation
- Docker Daemon Start-up
- PowerShell with Containers
- Base OS Installation
- Image Tagging
- Windows Server Container Creation
- Hyper-V Container Creation
- Docker Daemon Container Management
- PowerShell Container Management
- Container Networking
- Container Data Volumes
- Resource Control
- Dockefiles
- DockerHub
- Azure and Containers
07. Chapter 7 High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Hyper-V Replicas
- Live Migration
- Shared Nothing Live Migration
- CredSSP
- Kerberos
- Storage Migration
08. Chapter 8 Failover Clustering
- Workgroup Clusters
- Single and Multi-Domain Clusters
- Quorum
- Cluster Networking
- Cluster or Node Configuration Restoration
- Cluster Storage
- Cluster-Aware Updating
- Cluster Operating System Rolling upgrade
- Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)
- Nameless Clusters
- Scale-Out File Server (SoFS)
- Guest Clustering
- Clustered Storage Spaces
- Shared SAS Storage
- Storage Replicas
- Cloud Witnesses
- VM Resiliency
- Shared VHDX
- Storage Spaces Direct
- Disaggregated Storage Spaces Direct
- Hyper-Converged Storage Spaces Direct
09. Chapter 9 Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
- Continuously Available Shares
- VM Monitoring
- VM Failover
- Preference
- Stretch Clusters
- Site-Aware Clusters
- Node Fairness
- Live Migration
- Quick Migration
- Storage Migrations
- Import, Export, and Copy Virtual machines
- VM Network Health Protection
- Drain on Shutdown
10. Chapter 10 Network Load Balancing
- NLB Prerequisites
- Installing Network Load Balancing Nodes
- Affinity
- Port Rules
- Cluster Operations Mode
- NLB Cluster Upgrades
11. Chapter 11 Deployment Images
- Creating Images
- Deploying Images
- Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
12. Chapter 12 Virtual Machine Management
- Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
- WSUS Groups
- Patch Management
- Windows Defender
- Windows Server Backup
- Backing up Server Roles
- Performance Monitor
- Data Collector Sets
- Performance Counters
- Event Logs
- Alerts
- Resource Monitor