Title Page Copyright and Credits Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-740 MCSA Exam Guide About Packt Why subscribe? Packt.com Contributors About the authors About the reviewer Packt is searching for authors like you Preface Who this book is for What this book covers To get the most out of this book Conventions used Get in touch Reviews Installing Windows Server 2016 Technical requirements Installing Windows Server 2016 Minimum system hardware requirements Optional requirements Windows Server 2016 editions Installing Windows Server 2016 Installing Windows Server 2016 roles and features Installing roles and features using the Server Manager Installing roles and features using Windows PowerShell Installing and configuring Windows Server Core Managing Windows Server installations Installing and configuring Nano Server Deploying Nano Server Upgrading and migrating servers and workloads License conversion Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA) Key Management Services (KMS) activation Summary Questions Further reading Windows Server Imaging and Deployment Technical requirements Assessment and planning Planning for Windows Server virtualization Assessing virtualization workloads Working with images Preparing a machine for disk imaging Using the System Preparation Tool or Sysprep Using the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Mounting images Updating images Adding roles and features Summary Questions Further reading Configuring and Implementing Storage Technical requirements Configuring and managing disks and volumes NT Filesystem (NTFS) Security Support for large volumes Reliability Clustered storage Capacity enhancements Dynamic disks and volumes Resilient Filesystem (ReFS) Scalability Resiliency Performance Configuring sector sizes Configuring GUID Partition Tables (GPT disks) MBR disks GPT disks Initializing disks Creating VHD and VHDX files using Disk Management or Windows PowerShell Creating VHD and VHDX files using Disk Management Creating VHD and VHDX files using Windows PowerShell Mounting virtual hard disks Mounting virtual hard disks using PowerShell Configuring NFS and SMB shared folders Configuring shares using the Server Manager Creating SMB shared folders Creating NFS shared folders Configuring sharing using PowerShell Configuring file and folder permissions Modifying Advanced Security Settings Implementing and configuring server storage Configuring storage pools Configuring the Internet Small Computer Systems Interface Implementing data deduplication Summary Questions Further reading Getting to Know Hyper-V Technical requirements Installing and configuring Hyper-V Determining the hardware and compatibility requirements for installing Hyper-V Shielded virtual machines Discrete device assignment Supported Windows guest operating systems for Hyper-V Supported non-Windows client operating systems Installing Hyper-V Installing management tools Performing remote management of Hyper-V hosts Using Windows PowerShell Direct Implementing nested virtualization Configuring virtual machine settings Creating a VM Configuring the VM memory Configuring Non-Uniform Memory Access support Configuring resource metering Managing Integration Services Implementing Enhanced Session Mode Exporting and importing VMs Configuring Hyper-V storage Creating VHD and VHDX files using Hyper-V Manager Editing virtual hard disks Configuring Hyper-V networking Configuring Hyper-V virtual switches Adding and removing virtual network interface cards (vNICs) Configuring advanced virtual network adapter features Summary Questions Further reading Understanding Windows Containers An introduction to containers Understanding the concept of containers Containers in Windows Windows Server Containers Hyper-V containers Deploying Windows Containers Installing and configuring a Windows Server Container host Preparing the virtual machine to be a container host for Windows Containers Preparing the virtual machine to be a container host for Hyper-V containers Installing the package provider Installing Docker on Windows  Installing container images Creating Hyper-V and Windows Server Containers Managing Windows Containers Container networking Managing Windows Containers Managing container images using Docker Hub and Dockerfile Summary Questions Further reading High Availability Disaster recovery and high availability in Hyper-V Implementing Hyper-V Replica Live migration Configuring authentication for migration Storage migration Implementing Storage Spaces Direct Requirements for Storage Spaces Direct Enabling Storage Spaces Direct Installing all necessary roles Validating and creating the cluster Enabling Storage Spaces Direct Creating volumes Implementing Network Load Balancing An introduction to NLB Prerequisites for NLB Installing NLB nodes and creating an NLB cluster Configuring NLB clustering and nodes Port rules Affinity settings Network settings Summary Questions Further reading Implementing Clustering Planning and implementing failover clustering Planning a failover cluster Failover clustering requirements Storage requirements Hardware requirements Network requirements Software requirements Implementing a failover cluster Validating the cluster configuration Creating the cluster Cluster quorum Managing a failover cluster Configuring storage Configuring clustered roles Configuring the network Configuring failover and preference settings Cluster-aware updating Backing up and restoring a cluster Hyper-V failover clusters Hyper-V cluster components and requirements Implementing Hyper-V failover clusters Configuring a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Configuring virtual machines in a Hyper-V failover cluster Configuring health protection Configuring VM monitoring Summary Questions Further reading Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments Implementing Windows Server Update Services Designing and installing WSUS Configuring WSUS Configuring the WSUS server Configuring computers Managing patch management Configuring computer groups Approving updates Configuring Windows Server Backup Implementing Windows Server Backup Backing up and restoring data Backing up files and folders Restoring files and folders Backing up system images Restoring a system image Using the Window Server Backup console Using installation media Backup strategy Monitoring Windows Server Performance Monitor Event Viewer Server Manager Configuring alerts Summary Questions Further reading Assessments Chapter 1: Installing Windows Server 2016 Chapter 2: Windows Server Imaging and Deployment Chapter 3: Configuring and Implementing Storage Chapter 4: Getting to Know Hyper-V Chapter 5: Understanding Windows Containers Chapter 6: High Availability Chapter 7: Implementing Clustering Chapter 8: Monitoring and Maintaining Server Environments