IMPORTANT NOTE: This blog post is no longer current. Please visit the latest version of this blog in the official Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint blog in the Tech Community web site. 0. Introduction If you have a large SharePoint tenant (with hundreds of thousands of sites), you might run into some issues while trying … Continue reading Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint – Oversharing for Very Large Tenants
Tag: SQL Server
Scary SQL Server stuff: tombstones, phantoms, ghosts and zombies
This post mixes the spirit of Halloween and the passion for SQL Server 🙂 Have you noticed how SQL Server has a number of things that seem right out of a horror movie? As a test of your SQL Server expertise and for a fun Halloween trivia game, try to describe the items in … Continue reading Scary SQL Server stuff: tombstones, phantoms, ghosts and zombies
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 PowerShell cmdlet popularity
If you follow the blog, you probably saw a little PowerShell script I published a while back to measure the popularity of the cmdlets in a certain module using a Bing search. As an example, that blog showed the popularity of the cmdlets in the SmbShare module. Now I got curious about how the cmdlets … Continue reading Microsoft SQL Server 2014 PowerShell cmdlet popularity
Microsoft Ignite 2015 sessions related to OneDrive and SharePoint
Microsoft Ignite 2015 was a great event, but there were so many sessions that it was truly impossible to watch everything that looked interesting. However, all sessions were recorded and by now they should be available on Channel 9 for streaming. Even with all the recordings available, it's hard to find the links to all … Continue reading Microsoft Ignite 2015 sessions related to OneDrive and SharePoint
Building your schedule for TechEd 2014? Here are some Storage-related sessions!
TechEd NorthAmerica 2014 is just a few weeks away and it’s a sold-out event now. If you’re attending and you haven’t yet started building your schedule, you can consider yourself officially late. 🙂 If you’re focused on Private Cloud Storage and High Availability, let me suggest a few Breakout Sessions, Instructor-Led Labs (ILL) and … Continue reading Building your schedule for TechEd 2014? Here are some Storage-related sessions!
TechNet Radio series covers Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0 scenarios
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
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
Increasing Availability – The REAP Principles (Redundancy, Entanglement, Awareness and Persistence)
Introduction Increasing availability is a key concern with computer systems. With all the consolidation and virtualization efforts under way, you need to make sure your services are always up and running, even when some components fail. However, it’s usually hard to understand the details of what it takes to make systems highly available (or … Continue reading Increasing Availability – The REAP Principles (Redundancy, Entanglement, Awareness and Persistence)
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
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)
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