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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