Module 1: Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads
This module explains how to prepare for and install Windows Server 2016, including Server Core. This module also explains how to plan a server upgrade and migration strategy, how to perform a migration of server roles and workloads within and across domains, and how to choose an activation model based on environment characteristics.
Lessons
- Introducing Windows Server 2016
- Preparing and installing Server Core
- Preparing for upgrades and migrations
- Migrating server roles and workloads
- Windows Server activation models
Lab 1: Installing and configuring Server Core
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Understand concepts of Windows Server 2016 including preparation and installation of Server Core
- Manage upgrades and migration of server roles and workloads
- Manage Windows Server activation models
Module 2: Configuring local storage
This module explains how to manage disks and volumes in Windows Server 2016.
Lessons
- Managing disks in Windows Server
- Managing volumes in Windows Server
Lab 1: Configuring local storage
After completing this module, students will be able to
- Manage disks including configuring and resizing volumes
- Manage virtual hard disks
Module 3: Implementing enterprise storage solutions
This module explains how to understand direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), and storage area networks (SANs). It also explores the purpose of Microsoft Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) Server, data center bridging, and Multipath I/O (MPIO). Additionally, this module compares Fibre Channel, Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), and Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE), and describes how to configure sharing in Windows Server 2016.
Lessons
- Overview of DAS, NAS, and SANs
- Comparing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Understanding iSNS, DCB, and MPIO
- Configuring sharing in Windows Server 2016
Lab 1: Planning and configuring storage technologies and components
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Understand DAS, NAS and SAN also iSNS, DCB and MPIO
- Plan and configure storage requirement for iSCSI
- Configure and manage share infrastructure
Module 4: Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
- Implementing Storage Spaces
- Managing Storage Spaces
- Implementing Data Deduplication
Lab 1: Implementing Storage Spaces
Lessons
- 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 1: Installing and configuring Hyper-V
- Verifying installation of the Hyper-V server role
- Configuring Hyper-V networks
- Creating and configuring virtual machines
- Enabling nested virtualization for a virtual machine
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Understand Hyper-V
- Configure storage, networking and virtual machines on Hyper-V host servers
- Manage virtual machines
Module 6: Deploying and managing Windows and Hyper-V containers
This module explains how to deploy Windows Server and Hyper-V containers and how to install, configure, and manage containers by using Windows PowerShell and Docker.
Lessons
- Overview of containers in Windows Server 2016
- Preparing for containers
- Installing, configuring, and managing containers by using Docker
Lab 1: Installing and configuring containers
- Installing Docker Enterprise Edition for Windows Server 2016
- Installing and configuring an IIS container
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Understand containers and also installing docker container
- Install and configure IIS container
Module 7: Overview of high availability and disaster recovery
This module explains how to plan high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines. Additionally, this module explains how to back up and restore the Windows Server 2016 operating system and data by using the Windows Server Backup feature.
Lessons
- 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 1: Planning and implementing a high availability and disaster recovery solution
- Determine the appropriate high availability and disaster recovery solution
- Implementing storage migration
- Configuring Hyper-V Replicas
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Define and plan availability levels and disaster recovery
- Backup and restore using Windows Server Backup
- Manage failover cluster for high availability
Module 8: Implementing failover clustering
This module explains how to create and manage a failover cluster. Additionally, it explains how to implement high availability and stretch clustering for a site.
Lessons
- 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
Lab 1: Implementing failover clustering
- Creating a failover cluster
- Verifying quorum settings and adding a node
Lab 2: Managing a failover cluster
- Evicting a node and verifying quorum settings
- Changing the quorum from disk witness to file-share witness and defining node voting
- Verifying high availability
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Understand, plan, create and configure a failover cluster including maintenance
- Troubleshoot failover cluster
- Implement stretch clustering
Module 9: Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
This module explains how to implement Hyper-V virtual machines in failover clusters and describes the key features for virtual machines in a clustered environment.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Integrate and implement Hyper-V Server with failover cluster
- Configure virtual environment including failover cluster for Hyper-V
- Understand and implement highly available VMS
Module 10: Implementing Network Load Balancing
This module explains how to plan and configure an NLB cluster implementation. It also provides an overview of Network Load Balancing (NLB) and NLB clusters.
Lessons
- Overview of NLB
- Configuring an NLB cluster
- Planning an NLB implementation
Lab 1: Implementing NLB
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Understand, configure and implement a Network Load Balancer (NLB)S
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Implement WSUS and configure update settings
- Approve and deploy an update using WSUS
- Establish, identify performance baseline
- View and configure event logs