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Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services Exam Ref AZ-801

By : Chris Gill
Book Image

Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services Exam Ref AZ-801

By: Chris Gill

Overview of this book

Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services Exam Ref AZ-801 helps you master various cloud and data center management concepts in detail, helping you grow your expertise in configuring and managing Windows Server in on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based workloads. Throughout the book, you'll cover all the topics needed to pass the AZ-801 exam and use the skills you acquire to advance in your career. With this book, you’ll learn how to secure your on-premises Windows Server resources and Azure IaaS workloads. First, you’ll explore the potential vulnerabilities of your resources and learn how to fix or mitigate them. Next, you'll implement high availability Windows Server virtual machine workloads with Hyper-V Replica, Windows Server Failover Clustering, and Windows File Server. You’ll implement disaster recovery and server migration of Windows Server in on-premises and hybrid environments. You’ll also learn how to monitor and troubleshoot Windows Server environments. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills required to ace the AZ-801 exam, and you'll have a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1: Exam Overview and the Current State of On-Premises, Hybrid, and Cloud Workflows
3
Part 2: Secure Windows Server On-Premises and Hybrid Infrastructures
9
Part 3: Implement and Manage Windows Server High Availability
13
Part 4: Implement Disaster Recovery
17
Part 5: Migrate Servers and Workloads
23
Part 6: Monitor and Troubleshoot Windows Server Environments

Configuring Scale-Out File Server

The power behind SOFS is inherently to provide active-active clustered storage as continuously available file shares for server application storage. This, in turn, allows you to share the same folder at the same time on all the nodes in the cluster, and the active-active feature ensures that the file share is always available, even when a node is down because of maintenance or in the event of a failure. In addition, the bandwidth for the share can always be increased simply by adding another node to the cluster, thus reducing bandwidth constraints.

General use of SOFS includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) library shares of files and/or virtual machine templates
  • SQL Server live database files (including database, log, and backup files)
  • Hyper-V live virtual disk and configuration information
  • Clustered shared volume caching
  • Internet Information Services (IIS) configuration and general...