The presentations from SNIA's SDC 2009 are now publicly available for download. This SNIA event happened in Santa Clara, CA last September and the decks are now publicly available, after being restricted to conference attendees for a few months. Out of the dozens of presentations, I wanted to highlight a few that were delivered by … Continue reading Presentations from Storage Developer Conference 2009 (SDC 2009) are now available for download
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Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008
The Windows Storage Server Team just released a new 30-page white paper on "Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008". This paper will guide you through the process of configuring the networks, domains and clustering features, including performance recommendations for a pair of Windows Storage Server 2008 appliances hosting a File Server or a Microsoft … Continue reading Configuring Failover Clusters with Windows Storage Server 2008
Automatically uploading files from File Server to SharePoint using the File Classification Infrastructure (FCI)
Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a new File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) and the team has been sharing different ways to put it to good use. The latest one comes as a blog post that describes how to use the FCI SharePoint Upload PowerShell script in conjunction with the FCI File Management Tasks to automatically upload … Continue reading Automatically uploading files from File Server to SharePoint using the File Classification Infrastructure (FCI)
Implementing an End-User Data Centralization Solution with Folder Redirection and Offline Files
There's a new 77-page white paper covering the use of Folder Redirection and Offline Files in a very practical way.Here's an excerpt: "The objective of this white paper is to show through a case study how to use different Microsoft products and technologies to put in place a comprehensive solution satisfying the needs of a … Continue reading Implementing an End-User Data Centralization Solution with Folder Redirection and Offline Files
File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download
Version 1.0 of the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) was announced yesterday during a presentation by Jian Yan and Bartosz Nyczkowski at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The presentation covered a number of details about FSCT and included a demo running FSCT with the HomeFolders workload. If you are not familiar with … Continue reading File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 available for download
SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA is coming – Plan to be there on the week of September 14th
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 6th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 14th. This event is also co-located with the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest. For those working with storage technologies, this event gathers a unique crowd and includes a … Continue reading SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA is coming – Plan to be there on the week of September 14th
File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) Release Candidate available for download
The File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) is a capacity planning software for CIFS/SMB/SMB2 file servers. It’s also useful for identifying performance bottlenecks. FSCT results include the maximum number of users for a file server configuration, throughput for that configuration and performance counters for the server and clients used. This is a command line tool and … Continue reading File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) Release Candidate available for download
Windows Storage Server 2008 and the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2
I am glad to share that Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS 2008) and the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2 have been released to the Microsoft OEM partners. This is the successor to Windows Storage Server 2003 (WSS 2003) and Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 (WUDSS 2003). I have been working closely with some of … Continue reading Windows Storage Server 2008 and the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2
Final version of Network Monitor 3.3 available for download
NetMon 3.3 has just been released, with a number of new features. One of my favorites this time around is the ability to add comments to a frame. Also, keep in mind that protocols are evolving and having the latest NetMon can help. For instance, only the more recent versions of NetMon include an SMB2 protocol … Continue reading Final version of Network Monitor 3.3 available for download
The Basics of the Windows Server 2008 Distributed File System (DFS)
Overview In this blog post, we’ll cover the basics of the Distributed File System (DFS) in Windows Server 2008, which offers users simplified access to a set of file shares and helps administrators easily maintain the file server infrastructure behind those file shares, including options for load sharing, replication and site awareness. Many File Servers … Continue reading The Basics of the Windows Server 2008 Distributed File System (DFS)
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