Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016, Part 4 of 5: High Availability

This course covers how to ensure systems and infrastructure can stay up and running. It starts with an overview of disaster recovery and availability. Then an overview of options, Network Load Balancing, fault tolerance, planning and configuring failover clustering along with how to integrate failover with Hyper-V. Finally ending with configuring site availability through stretch clustering. This course contains the following lessons:

Lesson 1:

• Understanding High Availability
• Continuous Availability
• Business Continuity
• Business Continuity Strategies
• Developing Disaster Recovery Plans
• Service Level Agreements
• Highly Available Networking
• Highly Available Storage
• High Availability for Virtual Machines
• Live Migration
• Hyper-V Replica
• Planning for Hyper-V Replica
• Implementing Hyper-V Replica
• Overview of Windows Backup
• Demo: Windows Backup
• Overview of Failover Clustering
• HA Through Failover Clustering and Terminology
• Clustering Types and Categories.

Lesson 2:

• Understanding NLB
• NLB Operation
• NLB Features in Windows Server 2016
• NLB Deployment Requirements
• Demo: Deploy NLB
• NLB Configuration Options
• NLB Host Parameters
• Network Considerations for NLB
• Planning NLB Implementation.

Lesson 3:

• The Importance of Planning
• Application Considerations
• Storage Considerations
• Storage Requirements
• Hardware Requirements
• Network Requirements
• Demo: Verify Network Adapter Compatibility
• Additional Planning Configurations
• Introducing Quorum
• Dynamic Quorum
• Creation Process
• Demo: Create Virtual Disks
• Demo: Target Portal
• Demo: Format Volumes
• Demo: System Configuration.

Lesson 4:

• Cluster Roles
• Common Cluster Management Tasks
• Cluster Properties
• Failover and Failback Configuration
• Storage Configuration
• Network Configuration
• Configuring Quorum Options
• Demo: Quorum Configuration.

Lesson 5:

• Overview of Maintaining Failover Clusters
• Monitoring Failover Clusters
• Backup and Restore
• Troubleshooting Failover Clusters
• Managing Cluster Communication
• Cluster Aware Updating.

Lesson 6:

• Troubleshooting Communication
• Troubleshooting Cluster Name Objects
• Using Event Viewer
• Using Windows PowerShell.

Lesson 7:

• High Availability Options
• Host Clustering Overview
• Clustering for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016
• Hyper-V Cluster Components
• Hyper-V Failover Cluster Prerequisites
• Implementation Process
• Cluster Shared Volumes
• Configuring a Shared VHD
• Scale Out File Server
• SOFS Requirements.

Lesson 8:

• Stretch Clustering
• Prerequisites for Stretch Clustering
• Types of Replication
• Overview of Storage Replica
• Quorum Models for Stretch Clusters.