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Microsoft Virtual Academy – Learn Failover Clustering & Hyper-V

Elden_Christensen's avatar
Mar 15, 2019
First published on MSDN on Jun 02, 2015

Would you like to learn how to deploy, manage, and optimize a Windows Server 2012 R2 failover cluster?  The Microsoft Virtual Academy is a free training website for IT Pros with over 2.7 million students.  This technical course can teach you everything you want to know about Failover Clustering and Hyper-V high-availability and disaster recovery, and you don’t even need prior clustering experience!  Start today: http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/failover-clustering-in-windows-server-2012-r2 .


Join clustering experts Symon Perriman (VP at 5nine Software and former Microsoft Technical Evangelist) and Elden Christensen (Principal Program Manager Lead for Microsoft’s high-availability team ) and to explore the basic requirements for a failover cluster and how to deploy and validate it. Learn how to optimize the networking and storage configuration, and create a Scale-Out File Server. Hear the best practices for configuring and optimizing highly available Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs), and explore disaster recovery solutions with both Hyper-V Replica and multi-site clustering. Next look at advanced administration and troubleshooting techniques, then learn how System Center 2012 R2 can be used for large-scale failover cluster management and optimization.



This full day of training includes the following modules:



  1. Introduction to Failover Clustering

  2. Cluster Deployment and Upgrades

  3. Cluster Networking

  4. Cluster Storage & Scale-Out File Server

  5. Hyper-V Clustering

  6. Multi-Site Clustering & Scale-Out File Server

  7. Advanced Cluster Administration & Troubleshooting

  8. Managing Clusters with System Center 2012 R2


Learn everything you need to know about Failover Clustering on the Microsoft Virtual Academy: http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/failover-clustering-in-windows-server-2012-r2

Published Mar 15, 2019
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4 Comments

  • atsingh's avatar
    atsingh
    Copper Contributor

    Is this link deleted? I cannot access it when I click on the links or images in it.

     

    could you provide the link to access it.

    Elden_Christensen 

  • rizriso's avatar
    rizriso
    Copper Contributor

    Did the link for the Microsoft Virtual Academy – Learn Failover Clustering videos get deleted?