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Mastering Windows Server 2019 - Second Edition

By : Jordan Krause
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Mastering Windows Server 2019 - Second Edition

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

Mastering Windows Server 2019 – Second Edition covers all of the essential information needed to implement and utilize this latest-and-greatest platform as the core of your data center computing needs. You will begin by installing and managing Windows Server 2019, and by clearing up common points of confusion surrounding the versions and licensing of this new product. Centralized management, monitoring, and configuration of servers is key to an efficient IT department, and you will discover multiple methods for quickly managing all of your servers from a single pane of glass. To this end, you will spend time inside Server Manager, PowerShell, and even the new Windows Admin Center, formerly known as Project Honolulu. Even though this book is focused on Windows Server 2019 LTSC, we will still discuss containers and Nano Server, which are more commonly related to the SAC channel of the server platform, for a well-rounded exposition of all aspects of using Windows Server in your environment. We also discuss the various remote access technologies available in this operating system, as well as guidelines for virtualizing your data center with Hyper-V. By the end of this book, you will have all the ammunition required to start planning for, implementing, and managing Windows.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Failover clustering

We have established that NLB is a great solution for stateless applications, with a prime example being websites that you want to make highly available. What about other server roles or functions that you want to make redundant? Well, the opposite of stateless is stateful, so how about giving high availability to stateful pieces of technology?

Failover clustering provides this level of capability, and can be used in cases where the nodes within the cluster are accessing shared data. This is a key factor in the way failover clustering is designed, the storage used by the cluster nodes must be shared and accessible by each node that needs it. There are many different roles and services that can take advantage of failover clustering, but there are four specific technologies that seem to make up the majority of clusters running in data centers today: Hyper-V, file...