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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

Managing Azure VM data disks

When a VM is created, it must use a system disk that holds the operating system; this will be the C:\ drive. In addition, for some VM types, you can specify a temp disk that is automatically provisioned at the time of VM creation; this will appear as the D:\ drive.

We will not focus or cover content on the system disk types as this exam objective section discusses the data disk type.

The data disk can be attached to a VM in addition to the system and temp disk and is used if additional disk storage or layout is needed. This may be for installing software such as SQL Server, where we want different disk layouts for data, logs, and so on, or you may select data disks for performance reasons due to the effects of disk caching on the OS disk.

For applications and operations that are performance-sensitive, you should ensure you use a data disk for the installation path and storage of data rather than the OS disk. The reason for this is that by default...