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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

Managing failover clusters using Windows Admin Center

Sure, we now know how to create a WSFC using Windows Admin Center. However, we can also use Windows Admin Center to manage existing failover clusters by simply adding them as known cluster resources (this also includes hyper-converged clusters such as Azure Stack HCI).

Now that the cluster has been added, the cluster management tools from Windows Admin Center allow us to manage the following (as part of an ever-growing list):

  • Dashboard, which displays the current cluster status and any alerts at a high level
  • Compute, which covers any hosts, virtual machines, or containers in the cluster while providing the ability to pause nodes, simulate a failure, validate the cluster, remove the cluster, and create and review validation reports for the following cluster workloads:
    • Virtual machines
    • Servers
    • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Storage, which provides the management features of any attached or local storage, the presented volumes...