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Installation, Storage and Compute with Windows Server 2016 (MOC 20740)

Duration

Course Code

5 days

55324AC

About the Course

This five-day course is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who have a basic knowledge of Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who have the primary responsibility of managing storage and computing with Windows Server 2016, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available in and applicable to Windows Server 2016.


Audience Profile


This course is intended for IT professionals who would like to improve their expertise in storage and compute functionality for Windows Server 2016. It will help them prepare for daily use in their role as a Windows Server Administrator and also prepare them for Windows Server 2016 certifications or exams.

 

At Course Completion


  • Configure and install Windows Server 2016.

  • Manage Server Core, server upgrade and migration strategy.

  • Understand storage options.

  • Manage partition table formats.

  • Manage basic and dynamic disks, file systems.

  • Manage virtual hard disks, and drive hardware.

  • Manage disks and volumes.

  • Select and manage proper storage solutions for a specific scenario.

  • Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication implementation.

  • Configure and Manage Microsoft Hyper-V, virtual machines and Hyper-V containers.

  • Configure disaster recovery technologies.

  • Manage and Configure failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines.

  • Configure, plan and implement a Network Load Balancing (NLB).

  • Work with deployment images.


Prerequisites


  • Extensive knowledge of and experience with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016.

  • Detailed understanding of storage technologies, such as SAN, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel.

  • Detailed understanding and experience with implementing failover clustering and Hyper-V.

  • Experience with business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability.

  • Experience with Windows PowerShell.


Course Outline


Module 1: Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads


This module explains how to prepare for and install Windows Server 2016, including Server Core. This module also explains how to plan a server upgrade and migration strategy, how to perform a migration of server roles and workloads within and across domains, and how to choose an activation model based on environment characteristics.


Lessons


  • Introducing Windows Server 2016

  • Preparing and installing Server Core

  • Preparing for upgrades and migrations

  • Migrating server roles and workloads

  • Windows Server activation models


Lab 1: Installing and configuring Server Core


  •  Installing Server Core

  • Completing post-installation tasks on Windows Server 2016 Core

  • Performing remote management


After completing this module, students will be able to:


  • Understand concepts of Windows Server 2016 including preparation and installation of Server Core

  • Manage upgrades and migration of server roles and workloads

  • Manage Windows Server activation models


Module 2: Configuring local storage


This module explains how to manage disks and volumes in Windows Server 2016.


Lessons


  • Managing disks in Windows Server

  • Managing volumes in Windows Server


Lab 1: Configuring local storage


  • Creating and managing volumes

  • Resizing volumes

  • Managing virtual hard disks


After completing this module, students will be able to:


  • Manage disks including configuring and resizing volumes

  • Manage virtual hard disks


Module 3: Implementing enterprise storage solutions


This module explains how to understand direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), and storage area networks (SANs). It also explores the purpose of Microsoft Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) Server, data center bridging, and Multipath I/O (MPIO). Additionally, this module compares Fibre Channel, Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), and Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE), and describes how to configure sharing in Windows Server 2016.


Lessons


  • 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 2016


Lab 1: Planning and configuring storage technologies and components

 

  • Planning storage requirements

  • Configuring iSCSI storage

  • Configuring and managing the share infrastructure


After completing this module, students will be able to:


  • Understand DAS, NAS and SAN also iSNS, DCB and MPIO

  • Plan and configure storage requirement for iSCSI

  • Configure and manage share infrastructure


Module 4: Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication


This module explains how to implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication.


Lessons


  • Implementing Storage Spaces

  • Managing Storage Spaces

  • Implementing Data Deduplication

 

Lab 1: Implementing Storage Spaces

 

  • Creating a Storage Space

  • Enabling and configuring storage tiering


Lab 2: Implementing Data Deduplication

         

  • Installing Data Deduplication

  • Configuring Data Deduplication


After completing this module, students will be able to:


  • Manage and implement storage space and data deduplication

 

Module 5: Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines


This module explains how to install Hyper-V, configure storage and networking on Hyper-V host servers, and configure and manage Hyper-V virtual machines.


Lessons


  • 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


Lab 1: Installing and configuring Hyper-V


  • Verifying installation of the Hyper-V server role

  • Configuring Hyper-V networks

  • Creating and configuring virtual machines

  • Enabling nested virtualization for a virtual machine


After completing this module, students will be able to:


  • Understand Hyper-V

  • Configure storage, networking and virtual machines on Hyper-V host servers

  • Manage virtual machines


Module 6: Deploying and managing Windows and Hyper-V containers


This module explains how to deploy Windows Server and Hyper-V containers and how to install, configure, and manage containers by using Windows PowerShell and Docker.


Lessons


  • Overview of containers in Windows Server 2016

  • Preparing for containers

  • Installing, configuring, and managing containers by using Docker


Lab 1: Installing and configuring containers


  • Installing Docker Enterprise Edition for Windows Server 2016

  • Installing and configuring an IIS container


After completing this module, students will be able to:


  • Understand containers and also installing docker container

  • Install and configure IIS container


Module 7: Overview of high availability and disaster recovery


This module explains how to plan high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines. Additionally, this module explains how to back up and restore the Windows Server 2016 operating system and data by using the Windows Server Backup feature.


Lessons


  • 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 2016


Lab 1: Planning and implementing a high availability and disaster recovery solution

 

  • Determine the appropriate high availability and disaster recovery solution

  • Implementing storage migration

  • Configuring Hyper-V Replicas


After completing this module, students will be able to:


  • Define and plan availability levels and disaster recovery

  • Backup and restore using Windows Server Backup

  • Manage failover cluster for high availability

 


Module 8: Implementing failover clustering


This module explains how to create and manage a failover cluster. Additionally, it explains how to implement high availability and stretch clustering for a site.


Lessons


  • 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


Lab 1: Implementing failover clustering


  • Creating a failover cluster

  • Verifying quorum settings and adding a node


Lab 2: Managing a failover cluster


  • Evicting a node and verifying quorum settings

  • Changing the quorum from disk witness to file-share witness and defining node voting

  • Verifying high availability


After completing this module, students will be able to:


  • Understand, plan, create and configure a failover cluster including maintenance

  • Troubleshoot failover cluster

  • Implement stretch clustering


Module 9: Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V


This module explains how to implement Hyper-V virtual machines in failover clusters and describes the key features for virtual machines in a clustered environment.


Lessons


  • Overview of yhe integration of Hyper-V Server 2016 with failover clustering

  • Implementing Hyper-V VMs on failover clusters

  • Key features for VMs in a clustered environment


Lab 1: Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V


  • Configuring virtual environment

  • Configuring a failover cluster for Hyper-V

  • Configuring a highly available VM


After completing this module, students will be able to:


Module 10: Implementing Network Load Balancing


This module explains how to plan and configure an NLB cluster implementation. It also provides an overview of Network Load Balancing (NLB) and NLB clusters.


Lessons


  • Overview of NLB

  • Configuring an NLB cluster

  • Planning an NLB implementation


Lab 1: Implementing NLB


  • Implementing a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster

  • Configuring and managing the NLB cluster

  • Validating high availability for the NLB cluster


After completing this module, students will be able to:


  • Understand, configure and implement a Network Load Balancer (NLB)S


Module 11: Creating and managing deployment images


This module explains how to create and manage deployment images by using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). Additionally, it describes different workloads in the virtual machine environment


Lessons


  • Introduction to deployment images

  • Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT

  • Virtual machine environments for different workloads


Lab 1: Using MDT to deploy Windows Server 2016


  • Configuring MDT

  • Creating and deploying an image

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