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Windows 2000 Cluster Course
Course Number A1011

Who should attend this course?

The aim of this course is to enable the delegate to install, configure and troubleshoot systems running Windows 2000 cluster services or Network Load Balancing.

Duration

3 days

Course Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended the Supporting Windows 2000 course, Windows 2000 M.C.P. course or have a sound understanding of the Windows 2000 operating system, Active Directory and SCSI basics.

Course Objectives - On completing this course delegates will be able to:-

Describe the main features and benefits of Windows 2000 clustering
Describe the main features of network load balancing
Set-up directory services and DNS for clusters using Domainlets
Install and configure the shared quorum disk hardware
Install and configure network load balancing
Install and set-up the cluster software
Set-up resources and resource groups and describe resource dependencies
Control fail-over and fail-back
Use and describe active/passive and active/active configurations
Set-up and manage highly available file and print shares, and applications
Describe the backup/restore options used in clustered systems
Trouble-shoot cluster and quorum problems in a logical manner
Course Topics
Clustering features
Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Data Centre options
Clustering and Network Load Balancing concepts, network and disk configurations
Setting up and controlling Network Load Balancing
Setting up and controlling Cluster Services resource groups
Installing D.H.C.P. on a cluster server
Application installation on a cluster
Installing Exchange 2000
Installing SQL 2000
Known problems
Troubleshooting procedures