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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)

Planning and implementing failover clustering

Each implementation of a highly available solution, regardless of whether you need a high availability service or virtual machine, must start with the planning phase. After the planning phase, implementation and configuration are required in order to make the environment ready for use. This section will cover those processes and you'll be able to learn how to plan, implement, and configure a failover cluster in Windows Server 2016.

Planning a failover cluster

Failover clustering is a technology that will be whenever you want to configure services in a highly available manner. Before you implement failover clustering, you need to identify the services or applications that...