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About the Book
Windows Failover Clustering (WFC) is one of the oldest technologies utilized by Windows Server for the high availability of systems and services, whether that be traditional on-premise IT infrastructures or hybrid and multi cloud infrastructures in Microsoft Azure. Failover clustering and other relevant Microsoft technologies such as Always On Availability Groups are in many cases the cornerstone of a resilient and solid infrastructure design. In various real life scenarios however, administrators come across incidents and issues in their Windows failover clustering infrastructure which have a significant impact on business operations and may incur catastrophic downtime for services offered to customers.
This handbook aims to consolidate all Microsoft and third party vendor best practices for Microsoft Windows Failover Clustering which can be applied in both host cluster and guest cluster scenarios. Building an efficient and error-free failover cluster encompasses concepts and design considerations from more than one areas, including the Windows Server operating system, Software Defined (SD) and Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) concepts as well as storage and IP networking design principles. The book takes a pragmatic hands-on approach by presenting the theoretical foundations of the inner workings of a failover cluster architecture, discusses the most frequent failover clustering usage scenarios and concludes with practical applications and sample scripts for auditing and health checking an existing cluster as well as for building a new cluster in an automated and consistent way.
About the Author
Cloud School TV is an educational online community and a cloud-based training platform, maintained by Stefanos Evangelou (MCT). Cloud School TV service portfolio covers a wide range of training services, which include subjects falling under cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and cyber security. We take a learner-centric approach and strive to provide the highest quality of training courses, suited to all learning levels and audiences. We are based in Greece and we offer courses in English and Greek. Cloud School TV is a new school on-the-cloud and about-the-cloud. The vision of Cloud School TV is to improve the learners’ digital skills and enhance each learner’s everyday life by introducing new beneficial use cases of Cloud, AI/ML and Cybersecurity technologies at a business and personal level.
Stefanos writes on the following topics:
- Cybersecurity
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML)
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Operating systems
- Virtualization and containers
- IP Networking
- Data Engineering
- Devops
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Microsoft 365
- Blockchain and Web3
- IT professional development
- Cloud computing fundamentals
Stefanos holds a MEng in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and an MSc in Web Technology from the University of Southampton, UK. Stefanos is a Citrix Certified Expert in Virtualization (CCE-V) and brings long years of overall IT experience and several years of hands-on technical training experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and CompTIA CTT+ trainer, by delivering preparatory courses for Microsoft certifications.