Windows Server 2019: High Availability

Course details

We want our systems to be 100% operational, 24/7. So, in today's complex and high-traffic environments, it's important to reduce points of failure, add smart redundancy, and use high-availability tools—like virtualization and failover clustering offered in Windows Server 2019—to keep systems performing at a high level. In this course, instructor Robert McMillen teaches high-availability techniques in Windows Server 2019. He covers failover clustering, clustering for virtual machines, and management of Windows cluster roles. By the end of the course, you'll be able to create a more reliable, scalable network for your end users, with a minimal amount of downtime.

Learning objectives
Implementing Storage Spaces Direct
Configuring failover clustering
Interacting with Hyper-V
Implementing storage migration
Managing failover cluster roles
Configuring role-specific settings
Configuring virtual machine monitoring
Managing cluster movement
Replicating virtual machines
Upgrading an NLB cluster

Concepts

Introduction

Learn Windows Server 2019 to keep your infrastructure up 24 7

Overview

New features in Windows Server 2019 high availability
Different types of high availability

Implement Storage Spaces Direct

Requirements and definition of Storage Spaces Direct
Determine scenario requirements for implementing Storage Spaces Direct
Preparing for Storage Spaces Direct

Configure Failover Clustering

Create a failover cluster
Configuring cluster networking
Configure cluster storage
The importance of a quorum
Configure cluster quorums
Create a Scale-out File Server for Storage Spaces Direct

Interacting with Hyper-V

How to add a VM in Hyper-V to a cluster
How to remove a VM from Cluster Manager
How to add a second cluster
How to create a VM checkpoint

Implement HA and Disaster Recovery in Hyper-V

How to add the Hyper-V Replica Broker role
Implement live migration
Configure CredSSP and Kerberos authentication
Implement storage migration
Put storage into maintenance mode

Managing Failover Cluster Roles

Configure role-specific settings
Configure virtual machine (VM) monitoring
Configure failover and preference settings
Configure guest clustering
Storage Migration Service prerequisites

Managing Cluster Movement

Perform quick migrations
Windows Admin Center
Perform storage migration service
Configure node drain on a cluster
Remove a Clustered Shared Volume
Move the storage owner to another node
Add the File Share role to the cluster
Using Event Viewer to troubleshoot the cluster
Deleting a cluster

Managing Virtual Machines

How to replicate virtual machines
Failover to a replicated VM
Configure VM network health protection
Import, export, and copy VMs

Networking High Availability

Install network load balanced nodes to a cluster
Configuring cluster operations mode
Configuring affinity
Upgrading a network load balanced cluster

Conclusion

Next steps