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Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide
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Installing Windows Server 2016
Technical requirements
Installing Windows Server 2016
Minimum system hardware requirements
Optional requirements
Windows Server 2016 editions
Installing Windows Server 2016
Installing Windows Server 2016 roles and features
Installing roles and features using the Server Manager
Installing roles and features using Windows PowerShell
Installing and configuring Windows Server Core
Managing Windows Server installations
Installing and configuring Nano Server
Deploying Nano Server
Upgrading and migrating servers and workloads
License conversion
Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)
Key Management Services (KMS) activation
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Windows Server Imaging and Deployment
Technical requirements
Assessment and planning
Planning for Windows Server virtualization
Assessing virtualization workloads
Working with images
Preparing a machine for disk imaging
Using the System Preparation Tool or Sysprep
Using the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Mounting images
Updating images
Adding roles and features
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Configuring and Implementing Storage
Technical requirements
Configuring and managing disks and volumes
NT Filesystem (NTFS)
Security
Support for large volumes
Reliability
Clustered storage
Capacity enhancements
Dynamic disks and volumes
Resilient Filesystem (ReFS)
Scalability
Resiliency
Performance
Configuring sector sizes
Configuring GUID Partition Tables (GPT disks)
MBR disks
GPT disks
Initializing disks
Creating VHD and VHDX files using Disk Management or Windows PowerShell
Creating VHD and VHDX files using Disk Management
Creating VHD and VHDX files using Windows PowerShell
Mounting virtual hard disks
Mounting virtual hard disks using PowerShell
Configuring NFS and SMB shared folders
Configuring shares using the Server Manager
Creating SMB shared folders
Creating NFS shared folders
Configuring sharing using PowerShell
Configuring file and folder permissions
Modifying Advanced Security Settings
Implementing and configuring server storage
Configuring storage pools
Configuring the Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
Implementing data deduplication
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Getting to Know Hyper-V
Technical requirements
Installing and configuring Hyper-V
Determining the hardware and compatibility requirements for installing Hyper-V
Shielded virtual machines
Discrete device assignment
Supported Windows guest operating systems for Hyper-V
Supported non-Windows client operating systems
Installing Hyper-V
Installing management tools
Performing remote management of Hyper-V hosts
Using Windows PowerShell Direct
Implementing nested virtualization
Configuring virtual machine settings
Creating a VM
Configuring the VM memory
Configuring Non-Uniform Memory Access support
Configuring resource metering
Managing Integration Services
Implementing Enhanced Session Mode
Exporting and importing VMs
Configuring Hyper-V storage
Creating VHD and VHDX files using Hyper-V Manager
Editing virtual hard disks
Configuring Hyper-V networking
Configuring Hyper-V virtual switches
Adding and removing virtual network interface cards (vNICs)
Configuring advanced virtual network adapter features
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Understanding Windows Containers
An introduction to containers
Understanding the concept of containers
Containers in Windows
Windows Server Containers
Hyper-V containers
Deploying Windows Containers
Installing and configuring a Windows Server Container host
Preparing the virtual machine to be a container host for Windows Containers
Preparing the virtual machine to be a container host for Hyper-V containers
Installing the package provider
Installing Docker on Windows
 Installing container images
Creating Hyper-V and Windows Server Containers
Managing Windows Containers
Container networking
Managing Windows Containers
Managing container images using Docker Hub and Dockerfile
Summary
Questions
Further reading
High Availability
Disaster recovery and high availability in Hyper-V
Implementing Hyper-V Replica
Live migration
Configuring authentication for migration
Storage migration
Implementing Storage Spaces Direct
Requirements for Storage Spaces Direct
Enabling Storage Spaces Direct
Installing all necessary roles
Validating and creating the cluster
Enabling Storage Spaces Direct
Creating volumes
Implementing Network Load Balancing
An introduction to NLB
Prerequisites for NLB
Installing NLB nodes and creating an NLB cluster
Configuring NLB clustering and nodes
Port rules
Affinity settings
Network settings
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Implementing Clustering
Planning and implementing failover clustering
Planning a failover cluster
Failover clustering requirements
Storage requirements
Hardware requirements
Network requirements
Software requirements
Implementing a failover cluster
Validating the cluster configuration
Creating the cluster
Cluster quorum
Managing a failover cluster
Configuring storage
Configuring clustered roles
Configuring the network
Configuring failover and preference settings
Cluster-aware updating
Backing up and restoring a cluster
Hyper-V failover clusters
Hyper-V cluster components and requirements
Implementing Hyper-V failover clusters
Configuring a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV)
Configuring virtual machines in a Hyper-V failover cluster
Configuring health protection
Configuring VM monitoring
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments
Implementing Windows Server Update Services
Designing and installing WSUS
Configuring WSUS
Configuring the WSUS server
Configuring computers
Managing patch management
Configuring computer groups
Approving updates
Configuring Windows Server Backup
Implementing Windows Server Backup
Backing up and restoring data
Backing up files and folders
Restoring files and folders
Backing up system images
Restoring a system image
Using the Window Server Backup console
Using installation media
Backup strategy
Monitoring Windows Server
Performance Monitor
Event Viewer
Server Manager
Configuring alerts
Summary
Questions
Further reading
Assessments
Chapter 1: Installing Windows Server 2016
Chapter 2: Windows Server Imaging and Deployment
Chapter 3: Configuring and Implementing Storage
Chapter 4: Getting to Know Hyper-V
Chapter 5: Understanding Windows Containers
Chapter 6: High Availability
Chapter 7: Implementing Clustering
Chapter 8: Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments
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