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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you've learned about the concept of high availability and its purpose. You've learned how to implement high availability solutions using Windows Server 2016, such as live and storage migration in Hyper-V, and how to implement and configure Hyper-V Replica. You're now familiar with Storage Spaces Direct and the Microsoft implementation of software-defined storage. Finally, you learned what the Network Load Balancing cluster is and how to implement and configure NLB.

Chapter 7, Implementing Clustering, will cover why we need clusters and what type of clusters can be configured. We'll describe the procedure of cluster configuration in detail for the most popular cluster scenarios.