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Three Day Course Performance Based Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to implement, maintain, and troubleshoot clusters in their enterprise environment.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have: - Experience with network load balancing
- Basic knowledge of clustering theory
- Experience in an enterprise environment managing applications and network topologies
- Basic troubleshooting skills
In addition, students who attend this training should have technical knowledge equivalent to the following courses: - 6420A: Fundamentals of Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure and Application Platform
- 6421A: Configuring and Troubleshooting a Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure
Course Content
Introduction to Clusters This module describes cluster concepts and functionality. - Overview of Clusters
- Benefits of Using Clusters
- Overview of the Windows Server 2008 High-Availability Solutions
- Lab: Identifying Windows Server 2008 High-Availability Solutions
- Identifying solutions for Web servers
- Identifying solutions for database servers
- Identifying complex solutions
Introduction to Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters This module describes key features and functionality of the Windows Server 2008 failover clusters. - Overview of Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters
- Windows Server 2008 Features
- Overview of the Windows Server 2008 Quorum Models
- Lab : Identifying Windows Server 2008 Clustering Solutions
- Identifying clustered scenarios
Preparing to Install a Failover Cluster This module describes the prerequisites to install a Windows failover cluster. - Overview of Requirements for Installing a Failover Cluster
- Planning the Failover Cluster Implementation
- Installing the Failover Clustering Feature and Validating the Cluster Configuration
- Installing the Failover Cluster on Windows Server 2008 Server Core
- Lab: Preparing for a Cluster Installation
- Installing the Failover Clustering feature
- Validating the failover cluster
Overview of Failover Cluster Storage Requirements This module describes storage fundamentals, and how to plan and implement storage solutions for failover clusters. - Overview of Storage Technologies
- Introduction to Storage Area Networks
- Planning a Storage Solution for Failover Clusters
- Configuring an iSCSI Storage Connection
- Lab: Identifying SAN Components
- Identifying Fibre Channel SAN components
- Configuring iSCSI storage connections
Configuring a Failover Cluster This module describes how to install and manage a failover cluster. - Creating a New Failover Cluster
- Managing a Failover Cluster
- Active Directory Improvements
- Verifying Failover Functionality
- Lab: Creating and Administering a Cluster
- Creating a cluster
- Managing a failover cluster
Configuring Cluster Resources and Server RolesThis module describes how to configure cluster resources and cluster common Windows Server roles and applications. - Configuring Cluster Resources
- Implementing Failover Clusters for Server Roles Using Failover Cluster Management
- Clustering Server Roles Using Windows Server Core
- Lab : Clustering Server Roles and Features
- Clustering the print services role using Failover Cluster Management
- Configuring cluster resources
- Clustering the file services role on Windows Server Core
Maintaining Microsoft Failover Clusters This module describes how to maintain and troubleshoot failover clusters. - Monitoring Failover Clusters
- Backing Up and Restoring Failover Clusters
- Troubleshooting Failover Clusters
- Lab : Maintaining Failover Clusters
- Monitoring failover clusters
- Performing backups on a failover cluster
- Performing an authoritative restore on a failover cluster
Implementing Multi-Site Clusters This module describes multi-site clusters and the challenges that they present. In addition, this module describes how to implement a multi-site cluster using Windows Server 2008. - Overview of Multi-Site Clusters
- Implementing Multi-Site Clusters Using Windows Server 2008
Implementing Network Load Balancing Clusters This module describes how to install and maintain Network Load Balancing (NLB) clusters. - Overview of Network Load Balancing Clusters
- Configuring a Network Load Balancing Cluster
- Maintaining a Network Load Balancing Cluster
- Lab : Implementing an NLB cluster
- Preparing the NLB cluster nodes
- Configuring an NLB failover cluster
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