Storage and High Availability with Windows Server — Lesson 1: Windows Server Storage Architecture and Resiliency

Learning Objectives

• Plan disks, volumes, file systems, Storage Spaces, storage pools, and capacity requirements
• Implement data deduplication, iSCSI, SMB, file services, and resilient storage options
• Monitor storage health, performance, permissions, quotas, and operational risks

Detailed Topics

• Plan disks: Plan disks, volumes, file systems, Storage Spaces, storage pools, and capacity requirements
• Implement data deduplication: Implement data deduplication, iSCSI, SMB, file services, and resilient storage options
• Monitor storage health: Monitor storage health, performance, permissions, quotas, and operational risks

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Design and configure a resilient storage layout for a defined server workload.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Windows Server Storage Architecture and Resiliency in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.