69. Create a backup policy Let’s talk now about how we can create backup policies in regards to our recovery services vault. So, here I am on portal.azure.com. I can go to my Recovery Services vault just by clicking this. I can also go to all services menu on all services and search for it or resource groups. Go ahead and go into my recovery services vault right here. All right. And we’re going to go into the vault itself. And I’m going […]
67. Back up and recover using Azure Backup Server All right. Now, as I get into working with the Microsoft Azure backup services, I’m going to add another disk to my NYC-SVR1. Now, to do that, here I am in Hyper-V, I’m just going to right click my NYC-SVR1, I’m going to go to Settings and I’ve removed existing disk and in all of that. So, one point I had failover clustering and all that. I just went ahead and removed all that […]
65. Back up and restore files and folders to Azure Recovery Services vault Let’s go over now how we can back up and restore data involving the Azure environment. This is going to both involve the fact that we can back up and restore stuff that’s in the cloud as well as on-premises. But we’ve got to get started on how we would even begin doing something like that. So, to do this, you’re going to need what is called a recovery services […]
63. Create and configure storage spaces Now, Microsoft includes a feature that’s been around for a few years now in server. That’s meant to give us better control over having multiple hard drives and volumes on those hard drives. This feature is called storage spaces. This is again, the ultimate goal is to basically allow us to have more control over our drives. Imagine you’ve got a server, you’ve got multiple hard drives in that server and you want to set up volumes […]
61. Upgrade a node to Windows Server 2022 Now when it comes to upgrading nodes to a newer version of server, like, for example, let’s say that NYC-SVR1 was server 2019 or something and you wanted to upgrade it to 2022. There’s not really anything magic about this. It’s actually pretty straightforward. You can’t have the node be part of the cluster while all this process is going on. So, what you end up having to do is to evict the node, perform […]
59. Implement cluster-aware updating for installing updates on nodes I’d like now to go over the concepts of cluster-aware updating. Now, obviously when you are connecting machines together in a failover cluster, some of the things you’ve got to think about would be keeping those servers updated and the best way to do that, right? Obviously you can sit down at each individual server and just deactivate it from the cluster, disable it from the cluster, and then you can update it and […]
55. Configure cluster sets Let’s talk about the concepts of cluster sets. Now, a cluster set is a way of grouping clusters together so that you can fail over into different areas. Usually this would be done in like a large data center. So, a lot of your cloud providers, including Azure, actually builds these cluster sets through their cloud service. So, you would only really get to do this if you work for a very large environment with a lot of cluster […]
52. Modify quorum options Let me show you how we can configure our quorum settings. Now, the quorum is the capability that’s going to manage votes and all of that. And it’s actually pretty easy to configure even though they’ve kind of hidden it from you. So, here I am in failover clustering. If you forgot how to get there, all you got to do to get there is just go into Server Manager and go Tools and you’ll see failover cluster manager. […]
