Part 1: For an organization to maintain network stability of websites, storage resources and online applications, high availability and network load balancing in both Hyper-V and Windows Server 2016 are needed to support these efforts effectively and efficiently.
Part 2: While high availability and network load balancing are essential to maintaining stable disaster recovery and business continuity efforts, more is needed. Clustering, specifically failover clustering, can aid in supporting an organization to maintain strong business continuity efforts as well as high availability for mission-critical applications. You will also complete the required university professional competency for the course.
Read the assessment and respond to the checklist items based on the reading and learning activities.
Instructions
Part 1: Network Stability
Section 1: uCertify Lab
Complete all labs listed below from Lesson 13 and Lesson 18. You will find the links in this lab area.
13.1.9 Implementing Hyper-V Replica
13.2.14 Installing the Windows Migration Feature using PowerShell
18.1.16 Installing and Configuring NLB
Section 2: Summary
Write a 1-page summary indicating how you would use Hyper-V high availability and NLB for support in business continuity and disaster recovery efforts. Make sure to provide proper citations for any references you use.
Part 2: Failover Clustering in Windows
Section 1: uCertify Lab
Complete all labs listed below from Lesson 14 and Lesson 15. You will find the links in this lab area.
14.1.27 Installing Failover Cluster Manager
14.1.28 Creating a Cluster Using the Failover Cluster Wizard
14.1.29 Modifying the Default Networking Configuration Using the Failover Cluster Manager
14.1.30 Configuring Quorum
14.2.3 Creating a Storage Pool
14.2.4 Installing a Scale-Out File Server
14.2.5 Creating a File Share
14.2.6 Creating a Virtual Disk
15.1.13 Creating a Clustered Role
15.2.17 Configuring Monitoring for a VM
15.2.18 Configuring the Node Fairness Feature
Section 2: Summary
Write a minimum 1-page summary of all labs covered in Part 1. Make sure to provide proper citations for any references you use.
Section 3: Initiative
Based on what you have learned in this class or through library and online research, respond to the following scenario.
Scenario: Your boss has undertaken a new initiative to incorporate innovative ways to train users in support of IT resources. You have been tasked with developing a plan to incorporate new training methods into the current user training. Currently, a combination of traditional user manuals and some classroom training is used. You know that there are training methods and virtualization tools that can enhance user training so the initiative your boss has outlined will be successful.
Using what you have learned in the class or through research, write a minimum 1-page paper on how Windows administrators can apply new training methods and the use of tools in virtualization to support VMs, locally or remotely, to maintain increased availability, data integrity, and security in their network that helps improve user productivity.
Make sure you address the following key points in the paper:
Provide at least three new methods that can be used to enhance user knowledge.
Indicate why each method will enhance a users abilities over the current training method.
Indicate the benefits that the organization will realize by incorporating each new method.