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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

Failing over workloads between nodes

Throughout this chapter, we learned about the types of workloads that a failover cluster can host, as well as how best to manage the clusters in general. Let’s continue our learning objectives by discussing how to fail over workloads between cluster nodes using Windows Admin Center:

  1. From the Cluster Manager area within Windows Admin Center, select Servers under the Compute section and review the options for the clustered nodes, as shown in Figure 8.13, including the additional options under the ellipses for cluster node management:
Figure 8.13 – Server node management within Cluster Manager

Figure 8.13 – Server node management within Cluster Manager

  1. Selecting just one of the cluster nodes not only allows us to review the specific details and configuration of the server node but also allows us to visualize what happens when we select Pause to place the cluster node into maintenance, noting that workloads are automatically moved to other nodes in...