Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server (55341)
Learn to install and manage Windows Server storage, Hyper-V, containers, clustering, deployment, and monitoring across Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022.
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Course Overview
This five-day course prepares IT professionals to manage storage and compute technologies in Windows Server. You will explore installation and migration, local and enterprise storage, Hyper-V, containers, high availability, failover clustering, Network Load Balancing, deployment images, and virtual machine maintenance.
The course and labs use Windows Server 2022, with skills that are also applicable to Windows Server 2016 and 2019. Administration is covered through PowerShell, Server Manager, and Windows Admin Center.
Course Benefits
- Prepare and install Windows Server and plan server upgrade and migration strategies.
- Evaluate storage options and manage disks and volumes.
- Compare enterprise storage solutions and select an appropriate option for a given situation.
- Implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication.
- Install and configure Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines.
- Deploy, configure, and manage Windows Server and Hyper-V containers.
- Explain high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies in Windows Server.
- Plan, create, manage, and troubleshoot failover clusters.
- Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines.
- Plan and configure a Network Load Balancing cluster.
- Create and manage deployment images.
- Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations.
Delivery Methods
Live expert-led online training from anywhere. Guaranteed to run .
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
Course Outline
- 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
- Configuring local storage
- Managing disks in Windows Server
- Managing volumes in Windows Server
- 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
- Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
- Implementing Storage Spaces
- Managing Storage Spaces
- Implementing Data Deduplication
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server Hyper-V
- Overview of the integration of Hyper-V with failover clustering
- Implementing Hyper-V virtual machines on failover clusters
- Key features for virtual machines in a clustered environment
- Implementing Network Load Balancing
- Overview of Network Load Balancing
- Configuring a Network Load Balancing cluster
- Planning a Network Load Balancing implementation
- Creating and managing deployment images
- Introduction to deployment images
- Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT
- Virtual machine environments for different workloads
- 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
Class Materials
Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following is required for this Windows Server class:
- A basic understanding of networking fundamentals.
- An 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.
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