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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 Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct

This section will introduce storage virtualization using Microsoft Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct. The first technology we will introduce in this section will be Storage Spaces; we will compare it with Storage Spaces Direct in the next section and understand the differences.

What is Storage Spaces?

Storage Spaces is a Microsoft storage virtualization technology that allows the local disks of a computer to be aggregated into an array of disks that can be used to create virtual disks. It is also a way to provide storage system redundancy through protection against drive failures. This can be used as an alternative to the traditional disk failure protection method of a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) solution.

When selecting a storage technology for a given scenario, Storage Spaces provides an inexpensive storage solution that is simple to implement and manage while being scalable and reliable.

How...