Installation, Storage and Compute with Windows Server 2016

• Prepare and install Nano Server, a Server Core installation, and plan a server upgrade and migration strategy.
• Describe the various storage options, including partition table formats, basic and dynamic disks, file systems, virtual hard disks, and drive hardware, and explain how to manage disks and volumes.
• Describe enterprise storage solutions, and select the appropriate solution for a given situation.
• Implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication.
• Install and configure Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Deploy, configure, and manage Windows and Hyper-V containers.
• Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server 2016.
• Plan, create, and manage a failover cluster.
• Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines.
• Configure a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster, and plan for an NLB implementation.
• Create and manage deployment images.
• Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations.

Module 1: Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads

• Introducing Windows Server 2016
• Preparing and installing Nano Server and Server Core
• Preparing for upgrades and migrations
• Migrating server roles and workloads
• Windows Server activation models

Lab : Installing and configuring Nano Server

• Implementing Nano Server
• Completing post-installation tasks on the Nano Server
• Performing remote management

Module 2: Configuring local storage

• Managing disks in Windows Server 2016
• Managing volumes in Windows Server 2016

Lab : Managing disks and volumes in Windows Server 2016

• Creating and Managing virtual hard disks by using Windows PowerShell
• Converting virtual hard disks from .vhd to .vhdx
• Resizing a volume

Module 3: Implementing enterprise storage solutions

• Overview of direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and storage area networks
• Comparing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE
• Understanding iSNS, data centre bridging, and MPIO
• Configuring sharing in Windows Server 2016

Lab : Planning and configuring storage technologies and components

• Planning storage requirements
• Configuring iSCSI storage
• Configuring and managing the share infrastructure

Module 4: Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication

• Implementing Storage Spaces
• Managing Storage Spaces
• Implementing Data Deduplication

Lab : Implementing Storage Spaces

• Creating a storage space
• Enabling and configuring storage tiering

Lab : Implementing Data Deduplication

• Installing Data Deduplication
• Configuring Data Deduplication

Module 5: Installing and configuring Hyper-V and virtual machines

• 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 Hyper-V virtual machines

Lab : Installing and configuring Hyper-V

• Installing the Hyper-V server role
• Configuring Hyper-V settings
• Creating and configuring a virtual machine
• Managing a virtual machine by using PowerShell Direct

Module 6: Deploying and managing Windows Server and Hyper-V containers

• Overview of containers in Windows Server 2016
• Deploying Windows Server and Hyper-V containers
• Installing, configuring, and managing containers

Lab : Installing and configuring containers

• Installing and configuring Windows Server containers by using Windows PowerShell
• Installing and configuring Windows Server containers by using Docker

Module 7: Overview of high availability and disaster recovery

• Defining levels of availability
• Planning high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V virtual machines
• Backing up and restoring the Windows Server 2016 operating system and data by using Windows Server B
• High availability with failover clustering in Windows Server 2016

Lab : Planning and implementing a high availability and disaster recovery solution

• Determining the appropriate high availability and disaster recovery solution
• Implementing storage migration
• Implementing Hyper-V Replica

Module 8: Implementing and managing failover clustering

• 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 : Implementing a failover cluster

• Creating a failover cluster
• Verifying quorum settings and adding a node

Lab : 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
• Adding and removing disks from the cluster

Module 9: Implementing failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines

• Overview of integrating Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016 with failover clustering
• Implementing and maintaining Hyper-V virtual machines on failover clusters
• Key features for virtual machines in a clustered environment

Lab : Implementing failover clustering with Hyper-V

• Configuring a failover cluster for Hyper-V
• Configuring a highly available virtual machine

Module 10: Implementing Network Load Balancing

• Overview of NLB clusters
• Configuring an NLB cluster
• Planning an NLB implementation

Lab : Implementing an NLB cluster

• Implementing an NLB cluster
• Configuring and managing the NLB cluster
• Validating high availability for the NLB cluster

Module 11: Creating and managing deployment images

• Introduction to deployment images
• Creating and managing deployment images by using MDT
• Virtual machine environments for different workloads

Lab : Using MDT to deploy Windows Server 2016

• Installing and configuring MDT
• Creating and deploying an image

Module 12: Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations

• WSUS overview and deployment options
• Update management process with WSUS
• Overview of PowerShell DSC
• Overview of Windows Server 2016 monitoring tools
• Using Performance Monitor
• Monitoring Event Logs

Lab : Implementing WSUS and deploying updates

• Implementing WSUS
• Configuring update settings
• Approving and deploying an update by using WSUS

Lab : Monitoring and troubleshooting Windows Server 2016

• Establishing a performance baseline
• Identifying the source of a performance problem
• Viewing and configuring centralized event logs

• A basic understanding of networking fundamentals.
• An awareness and understanding of security best practices.
• An understanding of basic AD DS concepts.
• Basic knowledge of server hardware.
• Experience supporting and configuring Windows client operating systems such as Windows 8 or Windows 10.
• Additionally, students would benefit from having some previous Windows Server operating system experience, such as experience as a Windows Server systems administrator.