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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By : Steve Miles
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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

Written by an Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience in data center infrastructure, this AZ-800 study guide is an essential preparation tool for administrators who want to take the exam and acquire key skills that will help them thrive in their careers. This book will guide you through all the ways Windows Server can be used to manage hybrid solutions on-premises and in the cloud, starting with deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll then dive into managing virtual machines and containers and progress to implementing and managing an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure. The later parts of the book focus on managing storage and file services, concluding with a detailed overview of all the knowledge needed to pass the AZ-800 exam with practical examples throughout the chapters. In the final chapter, you’ll be able to test your understanding of the topics covered with the help of practice exams to make sure that you’re completely prepared for the contents and structure of the exam. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge, both practical and conceptual, that's required to administer Windows Server hybrid core infrastructure confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Hybrid Identity
6
Part 2: Hybrid Networking
9
Part 3: Hybrid Storage
12
Part 4: Hybrid Compute
18
Part 5: Exam Prep
19
Chapter 14: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

Implementing Windows Server iSCSI

In this section, we will look at Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), which is pronounced as scuzzy (SKUZ-ee), like fuzzy.

What is iSCSI?

To set the scene, Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is defined as a set of standards that connects and transfers data between computers and peripheral connected devices, such as disks.

iSCSI is a storage area network (SAN) technology protocol, and its communication with storage systems is done over Ethernet networks using TCP/IP. It emulates the local bus SCSI disk drive interconnect, making remote storage systems appear to the storage clients as local bus storage systems.

iSCSI is an alternative to the Fibre Channel (FC) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol storage systems. iSCSI is cheaper and less complex to implement but has lower reliability and performance as the communications are sent using TCP/IP.

Now, let’s look at its components.

What are the iSCSI...