You're reading from Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide

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Published in Feb 2019

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ISBN-13 9781789619454

Pages 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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IT Certification

Authors (2):

Sasha Kranjac

Vladimir Stefanovic

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing Windows Server 2016

2. Windows Server Imaging and Deployment

3. Configuring and Implementing Storage

4. Getting to Know Hyper-V

5. Understanding Windows Containers

6. High Availability

7. Implementing Clustering

8. Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments

9. Assessments

Implementing and configuring server storage

Windows Server 2016 uses Storage Spaces, a storage technology that helps protect your data in case of a drive failure. It combines the capacity of multiple disks to create a storage pool, and then uses this increased, combined storage capacity to create Storage Spaces. A Storage Space is a software-defined storage: a pool, a volume, a disk, or a virtual hard disk that is resilient, flexible, and expandable. Storage Spaces are also supported on Windows 10. They can be used in the following ways in Windows Server 2016:

With all storage in a single, standalone server
In a cluster, with a storage attached locally to each node, using Storage Spaces Direct
In a cluster, with SAS drives placed in one or more enclosures

Configuring storage pools...

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Authors (2)

Sasha Kranjac

Sasha is a Security and Cloud professional, architect, and instructor. More than two decades ago, he began programming in Assembler on Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX, met Windows NT 3.5, and was hooked to IT ever since. He is CEO at Kloudatech - Microsoft Partner, CompTIA Authorized Delivery Partner, Amazon Web Services Partner company - that helps businesses and individuals around the globe to embrace the cloud and be safe in cyberspace. Aside from Cloud/Security Architecture and consulting, he delivers Microsoft, EC-Council, CompTIA and bespoke courses and PowerClass Workshops internationally. For exceptional community contributions, Sasha has been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the Azure category. Sasha is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), MCT Regional Lead, Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI), and a frequent speaker at various international conferences, user groups and events.

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Vladimir Stefanovic

Vladimir Stefanovic is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and System Engineer with 10+ years of experience in IT industry. Over the IT career, Vladimir has worked in all areas of IT administration, from IT technician to current System Engineer position. As a lead System Engineer in Serbian IT company SuperAdmins and lead technician trainer in Admin Training Center, he successfully delivered a numerous of project and courses. He is also active conference speaker, with a long list of conferences like as MCT Summits (USA, Germany, Greece), ATD, WinDays, KulenDayz, Sinergija (Regional Conferences). He is a leader of a few user groups and active community member, with mission to share knowledge as much as possible.

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