Storage and High Availability with Windows Server

Resize a Volume

Enable BitLocker to Secure a Drive

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain how to manage drives in Windows Server 2012

Explain how to manage volumes in Windows Server 2012

Explain how to implement data security by using EFS, a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and BitLocker.

This module describes various fundamental storage technologies and components, including storage topology options, bus technologies in Windows Server, and sharing configuration in Windows Server.

Storage Topology Options

Configuring Bus Technologies in Windows Server

Configuring Sharing in Windows Server

Plan Storage Requirements

Configuring iSCSI Storage

Configure and Manage Share Infrastructure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe DAS, NAS, and SAN topologies.

Understand and configure bus technologies including NIC Teaming, HBAs, Converged networking, Fibre channel, FCoE, iSCSI, MPIO, Data Centre Bridging, and Windows Storage Server.

Describe storage protocols including NFS and SMB, block-level and file-level storage, and Windows Storage Server.

This module discusses how to manage, maintain, and recover Storage Spaces, how to configure storage pools and virtual hard disks, and how to implement Data Deduplication.

Implementing Storage Spaces

Maintaining Storage Spaces

Implementing Data Deduplication

Create a Storage Space

Enable and Configure Storage Tiering

Install Data Deduplication

Configure Data Deduplication

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe and implement Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces features.

Describe how to maintain Storage Spaces.

Describe how to implement Data Deduplication.

This module initially covers high availability in Windows Server in general terms, such as defining levels of availability and disaster recovery options and requirements. It then covers High Availability options which are available for virtual machines outside of failover clustering and follows that then by specifically covering High Availability as provided by failover clustering.

Defining Levels of Availability

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

High Availability with Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2012

Determine an Appropriate High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution

Implement Storage Migration

Implement Hyper-V Replica

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe levels of availability.

Describe high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines with technologies such as live migration, storage migration, and Hyper-V Replica.

Describe high availability as provided by failover clustering in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

This module explains how to create and administer a failover cluster, including planning, creating, managing, and monitoring a cluster.

Planning a Failover Cluster

Creating a New Failover Cluster

Create a failover cluster

Verify Quorum settings and add a node

Evict a node and verify Quorum settings

Configure Quorum from Disk Witness to File Share Witness and Define Node Voting

Add Disk to and Remove Disks From the Cluster

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan a failover cluster.

Create a failover cluster.

Manage and monitor a failover cluster.

This module describes how to configure roles and services for high availability on a failover cluster, how to manage and maintain a failover cluster, and how to implement site high availability with multi-site failover clustering.

Configuring High Availability Applications and Services on a Failover Cluster

Managing and Maintaining a Failover Cluster

Troubleshooting a Failover Cluster

Implementing Site High Availability with Multi-site Failover Clustering

Prepare For and Create a Failover Cluster by Using Windows PowerShell

Implement Storage Spaces with Failover Clustering

Add the General File Server Role and Create Data

Verify High Availability Functionality

Securing Cluster Shared Volumes with BitLocker Drive Encryption

Configure Cluster Aware Updating

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe configuring roles and services for high availability on a failover cluster.

Describe managing and maintaining a failover cluster.

Describe troubleshooting a failover cluster.

Describe implementing site high availability with multi-site failover clustering.

This module gives an overview of Hyper-V and failover clustering integration, as well as Implementing Hyper-V failover Clustering with Scale-Out File Server (SoFS). It also covers the management and maintenance of Hyper-V virtual machines on failover clusters.

Overview of Integrating Hyper-V with Failover Clustering

Implementing Hyper-V with Failover Clustering

Managing and Maintaining Hyper-V Virtual Machines on Failover Clusters

Create a Hyper-V Application Cluster

Create a SoFS Storage Guest Cluster with Shared Virtual Hard Disk

Migrate virtual Machine Virtual Hard Disks to SoFS Storage Guest Cluster

Validate Storage Guest Cluster Functionality

Perform Live Migration of Guest Clustered Virtual Machines

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe Hyper-V and failover clustering integration.

Describe how to implement Hyper-V with failover clustering and Scale-Out File Server (SoFS).

Describe the process of managing and maintaining Hyper-V virtual machines on failover clusters.

This module describes Virtual Machine Manager and how to use it to manage storage infrastructure. It also discusses using System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager to provision failover clusters for Hyper-V.

Overview of Virtual Machine Manager

Managing Storage Infrastructure with Virtual Machine Manager

Provisioning Failover Cluster in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

Configure and Provision Storage Infrastructure Components

Add Storage to Virtual Machine Manager

Create SoFS Storage Cluster

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe Virtual Machine Manager.

Manage storage infrastructure with Virtual Machine Manager.

Provision a failover cluster in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager.

This module discusses cloud-based storage and high availability solutions, including Azure, StorSimple, and disaster recovery with Hyper-V Recovery Manager.

Microsoft Azure Storage Solutions and Infrastructure

Cloud Integrated Storage with StorSimple

Disaster Recovery with Hyper-V Recovery Manager

Asses Options for A. Datum’s Future Storage and Service Needs

Optional Exercise: Configure Azure Storage

Optional Exercise: Configure Azure Virtual Machines

Optional Exercise: Manage Azure Storage and Virtual Machines by Using Windows PowerShell

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe Microsoft Azure StorageSolutions and Infrastructure.

Describe Cloud Integrated Storage with StorSimple.

Describe Disaster Recovery with Hyper-V Recovery Manager.

This module introduces Network Load Balancing (NLB) and the situations for which NLB is appropriate. It also covers how to configure and manage NLB clusters, perform maintenance tasks on NLB clusters, and how load balancing works in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager and Microsoft Azure.

Overview of NLB

Configuring an NLB Cluster

Planning an NLB Implementation

Implementing an NLB Cluster

Configuring and Managing the NLB Cluster

Validating High Availability for the NLB Cluster

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe NLB.

Explain how to configure an NLB cluster.

Explain how to plan an NLB implementation.