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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)

Implementing Clustering

One of the building blocks of a highly available Windows Server 2016 infrastructure solution is failover clustering. In this chapter, we'll explain how to implement and configure failover clustering and failover settings, virtual machine monitoring, workload migrations, and how to monitor clustered environments.

Failover clustering is a technology that provides you with the ability to implement services in a highly available manner. Many organizations that have business-critical services rely on failover clustering technology in order to achieve better availability and service stability.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to plan and implement a failover cluster service, how to manage and configure services in a failover cluster, and how to make your virtual machines clustered.

We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Planning and...