Why Hyper-V VHD Files Are So Large – And How To Efficiently Copy Them

Interesting blog post covering a tool to copy VHD files.The tool was created by a Microsoft MVP.Details at http://blogs.technet.com/wchomak/archive/2010/03/31/why-hyper-v-vhd-files-are-so-large-and-how-to-efficiently-copy-them.aspx

FAST’10 Technical Sessions

If you work with File and Storage, you probably heard of the annual FAST conference. The most recent one was FAST’10 (8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies), which happened in San Jose, CA on February 23-26.The content from the FAST'10 Technical Sessions was recently published, including presentations, papers and recordings. Please find below … Continue reading FAST’10 Technical Sessions →

Random thoughts and links on Storage

If there was ever a post true to the part of the tagline of my blog that mentions random thoughts, this is it. :-)This post is a compilation of my tweets from today, which cover several different topics related to Storage. Microsoft Research: Dryad Project: Writing parallel and distributed programs to scale from a small … Continue reading Random thoughts and links on Storage →

Presentations from Storage Developer Conference 2009 (SDC 2009) are now available for download

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 →

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 →

Three ways to design your DFS Namespaces

Introduction In this blog post, we’ll showcase the flexibility you have with DFS-N by showing three distinct ways that you could design a namespace. Note: If you’re not familiar with DFS-N, please read this blog post first: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2009/03/10/the-basics-of-the-windows-server-2008-distributed-file-system-dfs.aspx Scenario The scenario here is simple: you have three file servers in different locations: S1 is in … Continue reading Three ways to design your DFS Namespaces →

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 →