Course 5: MCSA Windows Server 2019 Enterprise Storage

Configure a core server by creating a new Windows Server 2019 vm, set a static IP, and join it to the domain for lab readiness and DNS resolution.

Promote Perth code one to a primary domain controller by installing Active Directory Domain Services and DNS, and test the trust relationship and secure channel with Perth DC one.

Learn to manage a Windows core server as a domain controller, configure global catalogs, and move the five roles between domain controllers using command-line tools.

Configure and manage server storage by adding virtual disks, initializing and formatting volumes, and creating simple, mirrored, or striped arrays with PowerShell and the GUI Disk Management.

Learn how to resize volumes with diskpart by initializing disks, converting to dynamic, creating and formatting volumes, assigning drive letters, and extending or shrinking space.

Master managing virtual hard disks on Windows Server 2019 with command line and PowerShell, including creating, attaching, detaching, converting between generation 1 and generation 2, and enabling Hyper-V management features.

Learn to manage virtual hard disks with PowerShell, including creating dynamic VHDs, mounting, initializing, partitioning, and converting between formats, while noting Hyper-V install requirements and nested virtualization in VMware.

Configure iSCSI targets and initiators to share storage between server 1 and server 2. Set up private switches and multiple path I/O to ensure access.

Enable and configure MPIO for Windows Server 2019 by installing the iSCSI initiator, establishing multi-path connectivity between server 1 and server 2, and verifying disk visibility in Disk Management.

Set up and configure SMB and NFS shares on iSCSI storage by creating NTFS and Linux volumes, installing file server roles, and managing shares with PowerShell.

Learn to create a storage pool from multiple hard disks, configure a mirrored virtual disk with hot spare, and protect data with two-way or three-way mirrors.

Simulate a faulty hard disk in a three-disk storage pool, diagnose with PowerShell and Get-PhysicalDisk, remove the failed drive, add a replacement disk, and verify pool health and redundancy.

Configure storage tiering with a tiered storage pool of mixed disks (ssd and hdd) and create a tiered virtual disk, distributing 50/50 to place frequently used files on the ssd.

Enable data deduplication on a Windows server volume to reduce storage and network traffic by storing a single copy of identical data, configure and monitor the deduplication job.

Explain nested virtualization on Windows Server 2019 by enabling virtualization extensions and MAC spoofing, installing Hyper-V inside a VM, and creating a private virtual switch.

Set up a private Windows server to run Docker and containers, enable Hyper-V with an external virtual switch, install Docker Desktop for Windows, and build a custom Nano Server image.

Set up a three-node failover cluster for file server and Hyper-V, with active and passive nodes, three networks, static IPs, and storage via virtual disks.

Set up nested virtualization with Hyper-V on virtual machines, configure three network adapters, disable firewalls, assign static IPs across domain controller, heartbeat, and storage nodes, and verify connectivity with ping.

Install the file server and Hyper-V roles on both cluster nodes by enabling Windows features, restart the servers, and verify the installation with feature commands before preparing the storage partition.

Install the iSCSI target role, create a storage pool and a fixed-size virtual disk for a file server with NTFS, then connect two servers and enable failover clustering.

Install failover clustering on two Windows Server 2019 nodes, validate configuration, and create a file server and Hyper-V cluster named file hyperv with DNS and storage.

Activate the file server role in a failover cluster, configure shared storage and virtual disks, assign a cluster IP and name, and enable seamless failover for uninterrupted file access.

Test high availability by validating a two-node file server cluster, failover from server 1 to server 2, and maintaining folder access during outages.

Prepare your network by removing the file server role, cleaning up Active Directory and DNS entries, and provisioning disks and storage for a Hyper-V cluster.

Configure and run Hyper-V virtual machines using cluster shared volumes to enable live migration, quick migration, and resilient VM storage across a two-node failover cluster.

Learn storage migration for Hyper-V: move virtual machine storage to cluster storage in the V drive, configure cluster roles, and include all VMs and virtual disks in the cluster.