Hi, there, and welcome to Pluralsight. This module is entitled Manage Failover
Clustering. I'm Tim Warner. We have a number of learning objectives all
aligned, as you know if you've been following this series, to exam AZ‑801.
We're going to learn in this module how cluster‑aware updating works. We'll
actually do failovers and failbacks. The exam objectives there are recover a
failed cluster note. And we have kind of a grab bag of additional miscellaneous
Windows Server failover clustering tasks. There's upgrading nodes to Windows
Server 2022.
There is, as I mentioned, failover and failback.
There's installing Windows updates on cluster nodes. That kind of
circles back to cluster‑aware updating. And then lastly,
a little bit on Windows Admin Center, which is one of the many
first‑party Windows Server management tools.
Hopefully, you've been following this course sequentially,
Implement and Manage Windows Server High Availability.
This five‑module course is one of a series of courses to support
exam AZ‑801, as I mentioned. This course is really all about
failover clustering, as you can see, implementing, configuring,
managing, and, but wait,
there's more, more managing. And then finally, there's Storage Spaces Direct.
So my goal as your instructor is really twofold. By
the time you finish this course,
I want to make sure you're cool and that you've got, well, you're cool anyway,
but that's another story, I want to make sure that you're all leveled up
with this stuff because it factors in heavily on exam AZ‑801. But just as
importantly, I want you to leave this course with a nice, wide‑spectrum
understanding of Windows Server high availability, as it's offered to us
from Microsoft with failover clustering, Storage Spaces Direct, and
cluster‑aware updating. But let's get into the content, shall we?