Hi, there.
Welcome to Pluralsight. Welcome to this course entitled Windows Server 2022:
Implement and Manage Windows Server High Availability.
This is the first module of five, and its title is
Implement a Windows Server Failover Cluster.
My name's Tim Warner. In this first module, we'll begin by
implementing Windows Server failover clusters.
You'll understand the step by step, which is really largely the
same depending upon whether you're on‑premises,
hybrid or cloud‑only.
As I said, you'll understand how to deploy a failover cluster.
We'll also cover stretch cluster configurations, as well as
configuring storage for failover clustering. This course,
Implement and Manage Windows Server High Availability is part of
our skill path for Microsoft exam AZ‑801.
So therefore, every lesson, that is every module and every topic in
each module, is geared to an AZ‑801 objective. We're in module 1 of 5
here on implementing failover clusters.
My module names aren't particularly granular. For example,
the second module is on configuring a cluster,
then we manage a cluster.
I just basically look at it this way. We start with planning and deployment.
Then, we look at setting up cluster roles, and then by the time we're
managing the cluster, which is actually spread over two lessons here, we'll
be concerned with things like cluster‑aware updating,
falling over, falling back, and that kind of stuff.
And because there's so much coverage on AZ‑801 on failover clustering
and in particular Storage Spaces Direct, we'll cover S2D in the fifth
and final module of the course. In order to earn your Windows Server
hybrid administrator associate badge, you have to clear two exams.
There's AZ‑800 called Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure,
and then what we're doing today is part of AZ‑801. That exam is entitled
Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services.
Now, when you pass either of those exams, you do get a badge for the exam,
but you won't earn your Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate until
you've passed the second of those two exams.
It doesn't matter which order you take,
whether you do 801 first or 800. It's up to you.
These certs have a one‑year validity, and you can renew them for
free by taking an online assessment at Microsoft Learn. Please
check the Pluralsight library because I've created introductory
courses. They're really mini courses. They're not very long at all
on both AZ‑800 and AZ‑801.
You can find the exercise files for this or any course by
going, first of all, in a full browser session,
not on a mobile device. Go into the course, as you can see in the screenshot,
but shift your focus over to the Exercise files tab, and click Download
exercise files. In that zip file, once you unpack it, there'll be a folder for
each module. And in each module folder, there's a PDF version of my slides, as
well as a supplemental subfolder that contains any PowerShell scripts that I
might've used in my demos,
as well as a links list that points to Microsoft docs and Pluralsight resources
that can extend or enhance your learning for each module. All right, enough for the preliminaries. Let's get into the content.