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Understanding Microsoft’s High-Availability Solutions

74
Total points
This course covers the best ways to provide continual availability to all applications, services, servers and VMs in your datacenter. The modules will cover all the planning, deployment and management considerations for bringing high-availability to every components of your datacenter or Private Cloud.

By the end of this course you will have an understanding of the basics of each of Microsoft's HA solutions and when each of them should be used. You will understand all the different methods you can use to keep your services up and running.

Technologies that will be covered in this course include:-
  • Hyper-V,
  • Failover Clustering,
  • Network Load Balancing,
  • SQL Server,
  • Exchange Server,
  • IIS, DFS-R, DNS
  • And every System Center product (including SC 2012) with a focus on Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)

Track Owner: Symon Perriman
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Understanding Microsoft’s High-Avai...
20 Points -  Level 200
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See the different ways to provide continual availability to all applications, services, servers and VMs in your datacenter. This module introduces the basics of each of Microsoft’s HA solutions and when each of them should be used. Understand all the different methods you can use to keep your services up and running in the infrastructure, application and management layers.
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Failover Clustering Overview
15 Points -  Level 200
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Failover Clustering is the primary high-availability technology for the virtualized datacenter and Private Cloud. This module provides an overview of the planning, licensing, virtualization, support, validation, hardware, networking considerations, building a cluster, deploying services, applications or virtual machines on a cluster. No prior cluster knowledge is needed for this introductory training.
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High-Availability & Clustering: Ove...
19 Points -  Level 200
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Learn more about VM high-availability with an intermediate training covering all the aspect of Hyper-V High-Availability. This team-taught module provides an introduction to clustering, then dives into some of the special planning and design considerations when using clustering with Hyper-V. Learn the best practices for planning, configuration and management to always keep VMs online.
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High-Availability & Clustering Disa...
15 Points -  Level 200
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This advanced module extends the concepts of failover clustering from a single datacenter to multiple geographic locations. When a regional disaster strikes, be prepared to automatically move your clustered workloads and VM to another site with minimal to no downtime. Learn the different planning considerations for networking, storage and cluster membership to optimize and prepare your datacenter for any type of disaster.
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