I have been working with Bob Hunt at the TechNet Radio team to provide a series of webcasts with information about SMB 3.0 and the File Server role in Windows Server 2012. These are fairly informal conversations, but Bob is really good at posing interesting questions, clarifying the different scenarios and teasing out relevant details … Continue reading TechNet Radio series covers Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0 scenarios
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SQLIO, PowerShell and storage performance: measuring IOPs, throughput and latency for both local disks and SMB file shares
IMPORTANT NOTE:SQLIO has been deprecated, as shown at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_server_team/archive/2015/12/11/sqlio-disk-subsystem-benchmark-tool-is-being-retired.aspx DiskSpd is the suitable replacement for SQLIO. You can find details on that at http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2014/10/13/diskspd-powershell-and-storage-performance-measuring-iops-throughput-and-latency-for-both-local-disks-and-smb-file-shares.aspx ---------------- 1. Introduction I have been doing storage-related demos and publishing blogs with some storage performance numbers for a while, and I commonly get questions such as “How do … Continue reading SQLIO, PowerShell and storage performance: measuring IOPs, throughput and latency for both local disks and SMB file shares
Sample PowerShell Scripts for Storage Spaces, standalone Hyper-V over SMB and SQLIO testing
These are some PowerShell snippets to configure a specific set of systems for Hyper-V over SMB testing.Posting it here mainly for my own reference, but maybe someone else out there is configuring a server with 48 disks split into 6 pools of 8 disks.These systems do not support SES (SCSI Enclosure Services) so I could … Continue reading Sample PowerShell Scripts for Storage Spaces, standalone Hyper-V over SMB and SQLIO testing
How much traffic needs to pass between the SMB Client and Server before Multichannel actually starts?
One smart MVP was doing some testing and noticed that SMB Multichannel did not trigger immediately after an SMB session was established. So, he asked: How much traffic needs to pass between the SMB Client and Server before Multichannel actually starts? Well... SMB Multichannel works slightly different in that regard depending on whether the client is … Continue reading How much traffic needs to pass between the SMB Client and Server before Multichannel actually starts?
How to use the new SMB 3.0 WMI classes in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 (from PowerShell)
If you're an IT Administrator, you're likely to use the new SMB PowerShell cmdlets to manage your SMB 3.0 file shares. You can find details about those at http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/06/27/the-basics-of-smb-powershell-a-feature-of-windows-server-2012-and-smb-3-0.aspx However, if you're a developer, you might be interested in learning about the WMI v2 classes that are behind those PowerShell cmdlets. They are easy to … Continue reading How to use the new SMB 3.0 WMI classes in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 (from PowerShell)
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?
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: Run the File Services Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
Windows Server 2012 includes a built-in mechanism called Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) to check your configuration and make sure everything is set to the proper values. These set of rules, which come in specific sets for each role you install, can be run through Server Manager or also via PowerShell. For the Windows Server 2012 … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Run the File Services Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
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
The built-in SMB PowerShell aliases in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
1 – Overview Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 introduced a new set of PowerShell cmdlets to manage File Servers and File Shares. If you're not familiar with them, I would recommend reviewing my blog on The Basics of SMB PowerShell. With the rule that cmdlets have to be written in a way that … Continue reading The built-in SMB PowerShell aliases in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
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