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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide

By : Sasha Kranjac, Vladimir Stefanovic
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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide

By: Sasha Kranjac, Vladimir Stefanovic

Overview of this book

MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification is one of the most sought-after certifications for IT professionals, which includes working with Windows Server and performing administrative tasks around it. This book is aimed at the 70-740 certification and is part of Packt's three-book series on MCSA Windows Server 2016 certification, which covers Exam 70-740, Exam 70-741, and Exam 70-742. This book will cover exam objectives for the 70-740 exam, and starting from installing and configuring Windows Server 2016, Windows Server imaging and deployment to configuring and managing disks and volumes, implementing and configuring server storage and implementing Hyper-V. At the end of each chapter you will be provided test questions to revise your learnings which will boost your confidence in preparing for the actual certifications. By the end of this book, you will learn everything needed to pass the, MCSA Exam 70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016, certification.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Installing and configuring Hyper-V

Hyper-V is a role in Windows Server 2016 that allows you to run multiple guest operating systems within a host operating system. The guest and host operating systems share hardware resources but act independently. This is possible using virtualization, a technology that enables the abstraction of hardware resources including the processor, the memory, and the network and provides isolation for the guest operating systems.

A Windows Server 2016 that runs Hyper-V is called a host, while a guest operating system is called a virtual machine or a guest. Each virtual machine runs in an isolated environment and a Hyper-V host can run multiple virtual machines simultaneously. There are many benefits of virtualization, including the following:

  • Provisioning virtual machines is much faster than provisioning physical machines. This leads...