This delivery format includes both instructor-led sessions and On-Demand sessions.
Week 1 – Kick-off and introduction to servers, workloads, and storage modules
Class session:
- Introduction to course, review course schedule, expectations, etc.
- Introduction to servers, workloads and storage modules
On-Demand modules to complete by next week’s class:
- Module 1: Installing, upgrading, and migrating servers and workloads
- Introducing Windows Server 2016
- Preparing and installing Server Core
- Preparing for upgrades and migrations
- Migrating server roles and workloads
- Windows Server activation models
- Module 2: Configuring local storage
- Managing disks in Windows Server
- Managing volumes in Windows Server
- Module 3: Implementing enterprise storage solutions
- Overview of DAS, NBAS, and SANs
- Comparing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Understanding iSNS, DCB, and MPIO
- Configuring sharing in Windows Server 2016
Reminder: To maximize your time and participation in next week's lab exercises, please complete the above modules prior to class.
Week 2 – Configure storage for Home folder and shared data challenge; and introduction to storage spaces and Hyper-V modules
Class session:
- Challenge lab: Configure storage for Home folders and shared data.
- Introduction to storages spaces and Hyper-V modules
On-Demand modules to complete by next week’s class:
- Module 4: Implementing Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
- Implementing Storage Spaces
- Managing Storage Spaces
- Implementing 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 virtual machines
Reminder: To maximize your time and participation in next week's lab exercises, please complete the above modules prior to class.
Week 3 –Configure storage for Hyper-V virtual machine challenge and introduction to Hyper-V containers and disaster recovery modules
Class session:
- Challenge lab: Configure storage for the creation of Hyper-V virtual machines.
- Introduction to Hyper-V containers and disaster recovery modules
On-Demand modules to complete by next week’s class:
- Module 6: Deploying and managing Windows and Hyper-V containers
- Overview of containers in Windows Server 2016
- Deploying Windows Server and Hyper-V containers
- Installing, configuring, and managing 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 by using Windows Server Backup
- High availability with failover clustering in Windows Server 2016
- Module 8: Implementing 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
Reminder: To maximize your time and participation in next week's lab exercises, please complete the above modules prior to class.
Week 4 – Implement a Web Server as a Windows Container challenge; configure a Scale Out File Server challenge; and introduction to failover clustering and load balancing modules
Class session:
- Challenge lab: Implement a Web Server as a Windows Container.
- Challenge lab: Configure a Scale Out File Server for use with a shared folder structure.
- Introduction to failover clustering and load balancing modules
On-Demand modules to complete by next week’s class:
- Module 9: Implementing failover clustering with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
- Overview of the integration of Hyper-V Server 2016 with failover clustering
- Implementing Hyper-V VMs on failover clusters
- Key features for VMs in a clustered environment
- Module 10: Implementing Network Load Balancing
- Overview of NLB
- Configuring an NLB cluster
- Planning an NLB implementation
Reminder: To maximize your time and participation in next week's lab exercises, please complete the above modules prior to class.
Week 5 – Configure Hyper-V live migration challenge and introduction to deployment images and VM installation modules
Class session:
- Challenge lab: Configure a Hyper-V live migration challenge.
- Introduction to deployment images and VM installation modules
On-Demand modules to complete by next week’s class:
- 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
- Module 12: Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations
- WSUS overview and deployment options
- Update management process with WSUS
- Overview of Windows PowerShell DSC
- Overview of Windows Server 2016 monitoring tools
- Using Performance Monitor
Monitoring event logs Reminder: To maximize your time and participation in next week's lab exercises, please complete the above modules prior to class.
Week 6 – Create a persistent Performance Monitor Data Collector challenge and final course review
Class session:
- Challenge lab: Create a persistent Performance Monitor Data Collector.
- Course review and wrap-up
Reminder: To maximize your time and participation in next week's lab exercises, please complete the above modules prior to class.