Description

This course will allow you to master Clustering mechanisms under Windows Server 2012 and R2 (Release 2). It will teach you how to implement them and allow you to determine which services and applications will benefit the most from high availability and load balancing.

Who is this training for ?

Systems administrators and engineers.

Training objectives

Training program

• High availability with Windows Server 2012 R2
  • The Failover Cluster and Network Load Balancing.
  • Principles and role of Clusters.
  • Definitions of quorum.
  • Geo-Clusters multi-site.
• Storage and networking in a Cluster environment
  • Storage: disk array, SAN, SAS, iSCSI, FC.
  • Cluster disk and quorum management.
  • Cluster shared volume overview.
  • Understand the network in a Cluster environment: public, private or storage network.
  • Management of IPs and DNS naming, configure iSCSI connections.
  • Work practices Prepare a storage plan and a network plan.
  • Installation, configuration and connection to iSCSI volumes.
• Hardware and software configurations
  • Hardware requirements.
  • Initial checks.
  • Network validation for clustering.
  • Checking system requirements .
  • Practical work Setting up system requirements.
• Setting up application clusters
  • Concept of System Cluster and Application Cluster.
  • Installation of the Cluster function and post-installation tests.
  • Configuration of the different resources of a Cluster.
  • Implement Clusters for Windows roles.
  • Practical work Installation, configuration and testing of Windows 2012 roles in a Highly Available environment (file server, printing, DHCP server, .
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  • Hot Failover Tests.
• Setting up Hyper-V Clusters
  • Interest of Hyper-V Clusters.
  • How Hyper-V works with Windows Clusters.
  • Implementation of highly available Hyper-V virtual machines.
  • Live migration.
  • Practical work Implementation of VMs in clusters and live migration of VMs.
• Implementation of Network Load Balancing (NLB)
  • Presentation of Network Load Balancing.
  • Uses and applications using NLB.
  • Installation and configuration of NLB.
  • Practical work Setting up a highly available IIS server via NLB.
• Cluster maintenance and troubleshooting
  • Windows Cluster Monitoring Tools.
  • Troubleshooting Procedures.
  • Disaster Recovery.
  • Back up and restore Failover Clusters.
  • Practical work Backup, destruction then restoration of a Cluster.