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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide

By : Sasha Kranjac, Vladimir Stefanovic

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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide

By: Sasha Kranjac, Vladimir Stefanovic

Overview of this book

MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification is one of the most sought-after certifications for IT professionals, which includes working with Windows Server and performing administrative tasks around it. This book is aimed at the 70-740 certification and is part of Packt's three-book series on MCSA Windows Server 2016 certification, which covers Exam 70-740, Exam 70-741, and Exam 70-742. This book will cover exam objectives for the 70-740 exam, and starting from installing and configuring Windows Server 2016, Windows Server imaging and deployment to configuring and managing disks and volumes, implementing and configuring server storage and implementing Hyper-V. At the end of each chapter you will be provided test questions to revise your learnings which will boost your confidence in preparing for the actual certifications. By the end of this book, you will learn everything needed to pass the, MCSA Exam 70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016, certification.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Installing Windows Server 2016

Installing Windows Server 2016

Technical requirements

Installing Windows Server 2016

Installing and configuring Nano Server

Upgrading and migrating servers and workloads

Further reading

Windows Server Imaging and Deployment

Windows Server Imaging and Deployment

Technical requirements

Assessment and planning

Working with images

Updating images

Further reading

Configuring and Implementing Storage

Configuring and Implementing Storage

Technical requirements

Configuring and managing disks and volumes

Implementing and configuring server storage

Implementing data deduplication

Further reading

Getting to Know Hyper-V

Getting to Know Hyper-V

Technical requirements

Installing and configuring Hyper-V

Configuring virtual machine settings

Configuring Hyper-V storage

Configuring Hyper-V networking

Further reading

Understanding Windows Containers

Understanding Windows Containers

An introduction to containers

Deploying Windows Containers

Managing Windows Containers

Further reading

High Availability

High Availability

Disaster recovery and high availability in Hyper-V

Implementing Storage Spaces Direct

Implementing Network Load Balancing

Further reading

Implementing Clustering

Implementing Clustering

Planning and implementing failover clustering

Managing a failover cluster

Hyper-V failover clusters

Further reading

Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments

Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments

Implementing Windows Server Update Services

Configuring Windows Server Backup

Monitoring Windows Server

Further reading

Assessments

Chapter 1: Installing Windows Server 2016

Chapter 2: Windows Server Imaging and Deployment

Chapter 3: Configuring and Implementing Storage

Chapter 4: Getting to Know Hyper-V

Chapter 5: Understanding Windows Containers

Chapter 6: High Availability

Chapter 7: Implementing Clustering

Chapter 8: Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments

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Implementing and configuring server storage

Windows Server 2016 uses Storage Spaces, a storage technology that helps protect your data in case of a drive failure. It combines the capacity of multiple disks to create a storage pool, and then uses this increased, combined storage capacity to create Storage Spaces. A Storage Space is a software-defined storage: a pool, a volume, a disk, or a virtual hard disk that is resilient, flexible, and expandable. Storage Spaces are also supported on Windows 10. They can be used in the following ways in Windows Server 2016:

With all storage in a single, standalone server
In a cluster, with a storage attached locally to each node, using Storage Spaces Direct
In a cluster, with SAS drives placed in one or more enclosures

Configuring storage pools...