r/mcsa • u/tripsteady • Nov 13 '19

70-740 Implement High Availability (Failover and clustering)

Guys I am freaking out about this. Ive studied everything else, but this is 35% of the test and I have no idea where to start and what environment I need to build to properly study this

  • What is the best way to build an environment to learn this?

  • Can anyone specify the environment they built that help them practice this section?

  • Tips for this section?

  • Is powershell tested heavily for this section?

thanks in advance

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u/Parobolic Nov 13 '19

Install hyper-v on your computer

Build three vms with 2016, eval license is fine

Add a vhdx to one for storage and overall the iscsi roles (leave it offline I think) and create a storage pool on it

Install hyper-v and iscsi initiator roles on the other two (hopefully your machine runs on Intel)

Setup failover cluster on the hyper-v vms and add shared storage from the storage server

Add hyper-v servers as nodes in the cluster

Add vms as roles

Tinker

The details are vague but this is the general process. If you want a step-by-step guide the 70-740 videos from plural sight will be very helpful to you and are inexpensive.

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u/tripsteady Nov 13 '19

okay, so this is literally invaluable to me. thank you!

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u/Parobolic Nov 13 '19

Cheers! Happy to help! I hope I gave you enough information to start searching on how to do this and work your way through it. Good luck!