Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016

(20740A)
Overview

This five-day 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.

Duration

5 Days

Target Audience

This course is intended for IT professionals who have some experiencing working with Windows Server, and who
are looking for a single five-day course that covers storage and compute technologies in Windows Server 2016.
This course will help them update their knowledge and skills related to storage and compute for Windows Server
2016.

Candidates suitable for this course would be:

Windows Server administrators who are relatively new to Windows Server administration and related
technologies, and who want to learn more about the storage and compute features in Windows Server 2016.

IT professionals with general IT knowledge, who are looking to gain knowledge about Windows Server, especially
around storage and compute technologies in Windows Server 2016.

The secondary audience for this course are IT professionals looking to take the Microsoft 70-740 certification
exam, Installation, Storage and Compute with Windows Server 2016.

Pre-requisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

A basic understanding of networking fundamentals.

An awareness and understanding of security best practices.

An understanding of basic AD DS concepts.

Basic knowledge of server hardware.

Experience supporting and configuring Windows client operating systems such as Windows 8 or Windows 10.
Additionally, students would benefit from having some previous Windows Server operating system experience,
such as experience as a Windows Server systems administrator.

Course Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Prepare and install Nano Server, a Server Core installation, and plan a server upgrade and migration
strategy.

Describe the various storage options, including partition table formats, basic and dynamic disks, file
systems, virtual hard disks, and drive hardware, and explain how to manage disks and volumes.

Describe enterprise storage solutions, and select the appropriate solution for a given situation.

Implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication.

Install and configure Microsoft Hyper-V.

Deploy, configure, and manage Windows and Hyper-V containers.

Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server 2016.

Plan, create, and manage a failover cluster.

Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines.

Configure a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster, and plan for an NLB implementation.

Create and manage deployment images.

Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations.

Course Contents

Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads

Introducing Windows Server 2016

Preparing and installing Nano Server and Server Core

Preparing for upgrades and migrations

Migrating server roles and workloads

Windows Server activation models

Configuring local storage

Managing volumes in Windows Server 2016

Implementing enterprise storage solutions

Overview of direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and storage area networks

Comparing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE

Understanding iSNS, data centre bridging, and MPIO

Configuring sharing in Windows Server 2016

Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication

Implementing Storage Spaces

Managing Storage Spaces

Implementing Data Deduplication

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 Hyper-V virtual machines

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

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 the Windows Server 2016 operating system and data by using Windows Server Backup
 High availability with failover clustering in Windows Server 2016

Implementing and managing failover clustering

Planning a failover cluster

Creating and configuring a new failover cluster

Maintaining a failover cluster

Troubleshooting a failover cluster

Implementing site high availability with stretch clustering

Implementing failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines

Overview of integrating Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016 with failover clustering

Implementing and maintaining Hyper-V virtual machines on failover clusters

Key features for virtual machines in a clustered environment

Implementing Network Load Balancing

Overview of NLB clusters

Configuring an NLB cluster

Planning an NLB implementation

Creating and managing deployment images

Introduction to deployment images

Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT

Virtual machine environments for different workloads

Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations

WSUS overview and deployment options

Update management process with WSUS

Overview of PowerShell DSC

Overview of Windows Server 2016 monitoring tools

Using Performance Monitor

Monitoring Event Logs