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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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Hyper-V failover clusters

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, the failover cluster feature is really important if you want to achieve high availability in your organization. In the previous section, we covered the configuration of file server as a highly available service. However, in the virtualization era, clustered virtual machines can provide a big benefit to your business. In this section, we'll learn what's important for clustered virtual machines and how to prepare the infrastructure.

Hyper-V cluster components and requirements

In the virtualization era, you need to know how virtual machines can be clustered. There are two different approaches—host clustering and guest clustering. Before you start...