How does New-SmbShare know whether the new share should be standalone, clustered or scale-out?

I got a question the other day about one of the scripts I published as part of a step-by-step for Hyper-V over SMB, Here's the relevant line from that script: New-SmbShare -Name VMS3 -Path C:ClusterStorageVolume1VMS -FullAccess FST2.TestAdministrator, FST2.TestFST2-HV1$, FST2.TestFST2-HV2$, FST2.TestFST2-HVC$ The question was related to how does New-SmbShare know to create the share on the … Continue reading How does New-SmbShare know whether the new share should be standalone, clustered or scale-out? →

New ESG Lab Validation Report shows Performance of Windows Server 2012 Storage and Networking

There is a new ESG report out that shows the Storage and Networking performance of Windows Server 2012. It highlights the findings around a few key new features, including: Storage Spaces SMB 3.0 File Servers Deduplication CHKDSK Online Scanning Offloaded Data Transfers (ODX) The numbers speak for themselves and the report provides plenty of tables, … Continue reading New ESG Lab Validation Report shows Performance of Windows Server 2012 Storage and Networking →

Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: New per-share SMB client performance counters provide great insight

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 include a new set of performance counters that can greatly help understand the performance of the SMB file protocol. These include new counters on both the server side and the client side. In this post, I wanted to call your attention to the new client-side counters that show the … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: New per-share SMB client performance counters provide great insight →

Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Use PowerShell to find the free space on the volume behind an SMB file share

A while back, I showed how to use PowerShell V2 and our old SMB WMIv1 object to explain how to find the free space behind a file share (essentially the free space for the volume that contains the file share). That post is available at http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2010/04/08/using-powershell-v2-to-gather-info-on-free-space-on-the-volumes-of-your-remote-file-server.aspx. While that post was a good example of how … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Use PowerShell to find the free space on the volume behind an SMB file share →

Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Avoid loopback configurations for Hyper-V over SMB

When deploying Hyper-V over SMB (storing your live configuration and live VHD/VHDX files on an SMB 3.0 file share), make sure you don’t use a loopback configuration. A loopback configuration means that the Hyper-V role and the File Server role are on the same computer. While you can actually have both roles on the same … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Avoid loopback configurations for Hyper-V over SMB →

Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Enable CSV Caching on Scale-Out File Server Clusters

Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in Windows Server 2012 has a great new feature to allow using system memory as a write-through cache. Since Scale-Out File Server Clusters use CSV, enabling this CSV cache has a huge impact on the performance of this type of File Server. This has a direct impact on common scenarios like … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Enable CSV Caching on Scale-Out File Server Clusters →

Windows Server 2012, File Servers and SMB 3.0 – Simpler and Easier by Design

1. Introduction I have been presenting our solution in Windows Server 2012 for File Storage for Virtualization (Hyper-V over SMB) and Databases (SQL Server over SMB) for a while now. I always start the conversation talking about how simple and easy it is for an IT Administrator or an Application Developer to use SMB 3.0. … Continue reading Windows Server 2012, File Servers and SMB 3.0 – Simpler and Easier by Design →

Talks at SNW Fall 2012 in October will cover SMB Direct, Hyper-V over SMB and SMB 3.0

I have three presentations lined up for the ComputerWorld/SNIA SNW Fall 2012 Conference, scheduled for October 16-19, 2012 in Santa Clara, California. Here are the details for each one, taken from the official event web site.Industry Perspective: High Throughput File Servers with SMB Direct, Using the Three Flavors of RDMA network adapters Wednesday, 10/17/2012, 11:40 … Continue reading Talks at SNW Fall 2012 in October will cover SMB Direct, Hyper-V over SMB and SMB 3.0 →

Compilation of my live tweets from SNIA’s SDC 2012 (Storage Developer Conference)

Here is a compilation of my live tweets from SNIA’s SDC 2012 (Storage Developers Conference). You can also read those directly from twitter at https://twitter.com/josebarreto (in reverse order) Notes and disclaimers These tweets were typed during the talks and they include typos and my own misinterpretations. Text under each talk are quotes from the speaker … Continue reading Compilation of my live tweets from SNIA’s SDC 2012 (Storage Developer Conference) →

SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2012 is just a few weeks away

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 9th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 17th. As usual, Microsoft is underwriting the SMB/SMB2/SMB3 Plugfest, which is co-located with the SDC event. For developers working with storage-related technologies, this event gathers … Continue reading SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2012 is just a few weeks away →