Technical requirements and lab setup

To successfully follow along and complete the tasks and exercises throughout this chapter and the following chapters in this book, we will need to ensure that the technical requirements from Chapter 1, Exam Overview and the Current State of Cloud Workflows, and Chapter 7, Implementing a Windows Server Failover Cluster, have been completed in full. We will be primarily reviewing our Hyper-V virtual machine environment to complete the exercises and tasks throughout this chapter to align with the AZ-801 exam objectives.

Let’s begin by introducing S2D, how it can be utilized, and what features it brings to your resilient storage design and architecture.