Windows Server 2016: High Availability

Review high-availability Windows Server features, and prepare for the fifth domain of Exam 70-743 Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA: Windows Server 2016—Implement high availability.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Overview

• New features, Windows Server 2016, high availability
• Different types of high availability

2. Configuring Network Load Balancing

• Configure NLB prerequisites
• Install NLB nodes
• Configuring cluster operation mode
• Upgrading an NLB cluster
• Configuring affinity

3. Configure Failover Clustering

• Create a failover cluster
• Configuring cluster networking
• Configure cluster storage
• Configure cluster quorums

4. Managing the Cluster

• Viewing cluster events
• Workgroup clusters
• Renaming clusters

5. Interacting with Hyper-V

• How to add a VM in Hyper-V to a cluster
• How to remove a VM from Cluster Manager
• How to add a second Cluster
• How to replicate virtual machines
• How to create a VM checkpoint

6. Managing Failover Cluster Roles

• Configure role-specific settings
• Configure virtual machine (VM) monitoring
• Configure failover and preference settings
• Configure guest clustering

7. Available Roles in Clustering

• DHCP server failover and clustering
• Fileserver clustering
• ISCSI target
• Adding the generic service cluster role
• Creating continuously available shares

8. Managing Cluster Movement

• Perform live and quick migrations
• Perform cluster storage migration
• Import, export, and copy VMs
• Configure VM network health protection
• Configure node drain on a cluster
• Deleting a cluster

Conclusion

• Next steps