Storage and High Availability with Windows Server

Master high availability and storage management with Windows Server 2012 & R2, designed for IT professionals seeking expertise in advanced server technologies and cloud integration.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Implement advanced storage solutions using Windows Server 2012 technologies.

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Manage high availability configurations with Hyper-V and failover clustering.

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Integrate on-premises storage with cloud-based solutions like Azure and StorSimple.

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Secure and optimize storage infrastructure with Data Deduplication and Storage Spaces.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 4 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Enterprise IT professionals managing storage
  • Windows Server 2008 administrators
  • Small-to-medium enterprise admins
  • Aspiring Windows Server specialists

Description

Get hands-on instruction and practice provisioning your storage requirements and meeting your high availability needs with Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 in this four-day Microsoft Official Course. In this course, you will learn about traditional storage topologies such as Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SANs), and bus technologies such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI. The course also covers newer Windows Server technologies such as Storage Spaces, tiering, thin provisioning and Data Deduplication, and enhanced functionality to the SMB sharing protocol in Windows Server 2012 R2. The course also teaches high availability and disaster recovery technologies such as live migration, storage migration, and Hyper-V Replica. In addition, it provides in-depth coverage of Failover Clustering, including a detailed implementation of failover clustering of Hyper-V using Scale-Out File Server. The course also covers System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. You will learn how to manage your storage infrastructure at scale by abstracting the physical storage fabric into manageable units that can be provisioned on-demand with minimal overhead using private clouds. The course describes Microsoft Azure storage solutions and integrating your on-premises storage with cloud-based storage and disaster recovery solutions including StorSimple and Azure Site Recovery. Implementing Network Load Balancing (NLB) and load balancing clusters are also covered. The detailed hands-on labs and in-depth content will provide you with the knowledge and skills to meet and manage your continually-growing and evolving storage and high availability needs, with reduced overhead and cost.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Fundamental Storage Technologies and Components

  1. Disk and File Systems Changes in Windows Server 2012

  2. Server Storage Topology

  3. Bus Technologies and Protocols

  4. Configuring Sharing in Windows Server

  5. Securing Volumes and Drives

Module 2: Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication

  1. Implementing Storage Spaces

  2. Maintaining Storage Spaces

  3. Implementing Data Deduplication

Module 3: High Availability in Windows Server

  1. Understanding High Availability

  2. High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions with Hyper-V Virtual Machines

  3. High Availability with Clustering in Windows Server 2012

Module 4: Implementing Failover Clustering

  1. Planning a Failover Cluster

  2. Creating a New Failover Cluster

Module 5: Managing Server Roles and Clustering Resources

  1. Configuring Highly Available Applications and Services on a Failover Cluster

  2. Managing and Maintaining a Failover Cluster

  3. Troubleshooting a Failover Cluster

  4. Implementing Site High Availability with Multisite Failover Clusters

Module 6: Implementing Failover Clustering with Hyper-V

  1. Overview of Integrating Hyper-V with Failover Clustering

  2. Implementing Hyper-V with Failover Clustering

  3. Virtual Machine Storage Options

  4. Managing and Maintaining Hyper-V Virtual Machines on Failover Clusters

Module 7: Storage Infrastructure Management with Virtual Machine Manager

  1. Overview of Virtual Machine Manager

  2. Managing Storage Infrastructure with Virtual Machine Manager

  3. Provisioning Failover Clustering in Virtual Machine Manager

Module 8: Cloud-Based Storage and High Availability

  1. Azure Storage Solutions and Infrastructure

  2. Cloud Integrated Storage with StorSimple

  3. Disaster Recovery with Azure Site Recovery

Module 9: Implementing Network Load Balancing Clusters

  1. Overview of NLB

  2. Configuring an NLB Cluster

  3. Planning an NLB Implementation

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