File Server team sessions at TechEd 2012 North America available for streaming/download

We had a great time showing Windows Server 2012 at TechEd North America and I wanted to share that the recording for our team’s sessions are now publicly available. That includes our sessions on SMB 3.0 and a number of demos, many of them using one of the Cluster-in-box configurations we were showing at the … Continue reading File Server team sessions at TechEd 2012 North America available for streaming/download

Microsoft Partners showcase solutions related to Windows Server 2012 at TechEd 2012 North America

The Microsoft TechEd 2012 North America conference is happening this week in Orlando, FL. As part of that event, a number of partners are showing their hardware and/or software at the exhibit area called the TechExpo. I have spent some time there and took a few pictures of a few partners that have solutions related … Continue reading Microsoft Partners showcase solutions related to Windows Server 2012 at TechEd 2012 North America

Deploying Windows Server 2012 Beta with SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) and the Mellanox ConnectX-2/ConnectX-3 using InfiniBand – Step by Step

This blog post is now obsolete. For the latest post on this topic, visit http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/07/31/deploying-windows-server-2012-with-smb-direct-smb-over-rdma-and-the-mellanox-connectx-2-connectx-3-using-infiniband-step-by-step.aspx     1) Introduction We have covered the basics of SMB Direct and some of the use cases in previous blog posts and TechNet articles. If you haven’t seen those, here are a few pointers: Windows Server 2012 Beta SMB … Continue reading Deploying Windows Server 2012 Beta with SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) and the Mellanox ConnectX-2/ConnectX-3 using InfiniBand – Step by Step

Deploying Windows Server 2012 Beta with SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) and the Intel NetEffect NE020 card – Step by Step

This blog post is obsolete. For the latest post on this topic, see http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/07/31/deploying-windows-server-2012-with-smb-direct-smb-over-rdma-and-the-intel-neteffect-ne020-card-using-iwarp-step-by-step.aspx   1) Introduction We have covered the basics of SMB Direct and some of the use cases in previous blog posts and TechNet articles. If you haven’t seen those, here are a few pointers: Windows Server 2012 Beta SMB Overview High-Performance, Continuously … Continue reading Deploying Windows Server 2012 Beta with SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) and the Intel NetEffect NE020 card – Step by Step

Preliminary performance results with Windows Server 2012 Beta and SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA)

If you’re reading up on Windows Server 2012, you probably saw that using file storage for your Hyper-V and SQL Server data is one of our key new scenarios. You can read more about this in the TechNet article called “High-Performance, Continuously Available File Share Storage for Server Applications” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831399.aspx. We have already shared … Continue reading Preliminary performance results with Windows Server 2012 Beta and SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA)

Microsoft at the Storage Networking World 2012 Conference (includes Windows Server 2012 sessions)

SNW Spring 2012 in Dallas is about a week away. Co-owned by Computerworld and Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), SNW is a conference focused on Information Infrastructure with tracks covering: Backup and Archiving in the Cloud Big Data Business Continuity Cloud Storage Data Center Consolidation Data Center Networking Data Encryption Data Management Data Protection Deduplication … Continue reading Microsoft at the Storage Networking World 2012 Conference (includes Windows Server 2012 sessions)

Links to //build/ sessions on Storage, Networking and Hyper-V

Last month at the //Build/ conference we had a large number of presentations delivered and made available to download and stream. Several Microsoft Partners and Developers that are focused on Storage, Networking or Hyper-V have asked me for a list of links to help them find the Widows Server 8 sessions more closely related to those topics. Here is my … Continue reading Links to //build/ sessions on Storage, Networking and Hyper-V