This 5-day instructor-led course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing storage and compute by using Windows Server 2016, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available and applicable to Windows Server 2016.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads
- Introducing Windows Server 2016
- Preparing and installing Server Core
- Preparing for upgrades and migrations
- Mitigating server roles and workloads
- Windows Server activation models
Lab: Installing and configuring Server Core
Lesson 2: Configuring local storage
- Managing disks in Windows Server
- Managing volumes in Windows Server
Lab: Configuring local storage
Lesson 3: Implementing enterprise storage solutions
- Overview of DAS, NAS, and SANs
- Comparing Fibre Channel, ISCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Understanding ISNS, DCB, and MPIO
- Configuring sharing in Windows 2016
Lab: Planning and Configuring storage technologies and components
Lesson 4: Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
- Implementing Storage Spaces
- Managing Storage Spaces
- Implementing Data Deduplication
Lab: Implementing Storage Spaces
Lab: Implementing Data Deduplication
Lesson 5: Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines
- Overview of Hyper-V
- Installing Hyper-V
- Configuring storage on Hyper-V host servers
- Configuring networking on Hyper-V host servers
- Configuring Hyper-V virtual machines
- Managing virtual machines
Lab: Installing and configuring Hyper-V
Lesson 6: Deploying and managing Windows Server and Hyper-V containers
- Overview of containers in Windows Server 2016
- Deploying Windows Server and Hyper-V containers
- Installing, configuring, and managing containers
Lab: Installing and configuring containers
Lesson 7: Overview of high availability and disaster recovery
- Defining levels of availability
- Planning high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines
- Backing up and restoring by using Windows Server Backup
- High availability with failover clustering in Windows Server 2016
Lab: Planning and implementing a high availability and disaster recovery solution
Lesson 8: Implementing failover clustering
- Planning a failover cluster
- Creating and configuring a newfailover cluster
- Maintaining a failover cluster
- Troubleshooting a failover cluster
- Implementing site high availability with stretch clustering
Lab: Implementing failover clustering
Lab: Managing a failover cluster
Lesson 9: Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
- Overview of the integration of Hyper-V Server 2016 with failover clustering
- Implementing Hyper-V VMs on failover clusters
- Key features for VMs in a clustered environment
Lab: Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
Lesson 10: Implementing Network Load Balancing
- Overview of NLB
- Configuring an NLB cluster
- Planning an NLB implementation
Lab: Implementing NLB
Lesson 11: Creating and managing deployment images
- Introduction to deployment images
- Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT
- Virtual machine environments for different workloads
Lab: Using MDT to deploy Windows Server 2016
Lesson 12: Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations
- WSUS overview and deploymentoptions
- Update management process withWSUS
- Overview of Windows PowerShellDSC
- Overview of Windows Server 2016monitoring tools
- Using Performance Monitor
- Monitoring event logs
Lab: Implementing WSUS anddeploying updates
Lab: Monitoring and troubleshootingWindows Server 2016