Administrators used to spend hours upon hours building and customizing images that would later be used to deploy devices. But with Autopilot, you do not need to reimage or manually set up new devices before giving them to your end users. Devices can be shipped to your users directly from the vendor. It only takes […]
You can use the following tools to manage and monitor Storage Spaces Direct: ■ Windows Admin Center ■ Server Manager & Failover Cluster Manager ■ Windows PowerShell ■ System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and Operations Manager Storage Spaces Direct Using Windows PowerShell Table 13.5 contains just some of the PowerShell […]
To create a storage space on a Windows client, perform the following: FIGURE 13.24 Create A New Pool And Storage Space option To create a storage space on a stand- alone server, you’ll follow three steps: ■ Step 1: Create a storage pool: Group available physical disks into one or more storage pools. Storage […]
Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud is called Azure Blob Storage. Blob Storage is designed for storing large amounts of unstructured data, which is data that doesn’t adhere to any particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data. Blob Storage is used for these purposes: ■ Serving images or documents […]
Microsoft Cloud Witness is a high- availability feature for failover clusters that uses storage in Azure so that clusters will continue to work if there is an onsite outage. It is a type of failover cluster quorum witness that uses Azure. I briefly discussed Cloud Witness earlier in the chapter, but now I want to […]
Windows Server 2022 has options that let fine- tune the failover process to meet the needs of your business. I’ll cover these options in the next few sections. Failover occurs when a clustered application or service moves from one node to another. The process can be triggered automatically because of a failure or server maintenance […]
The Validate A Configuration Wizard, shown in Figure 13.15, is simple to use. You should run it after the Failover Clustering feature has been installed on each of the cluster nodes, and it can be run as many times as you need. FIGURE 13.15 The Validate A Configuration Wizard If you already have a cluster […]
