Microsoft at the SNIA Storage Developer Conference

The SNIA Storage Developer Conference is happening next week in Santa Clara, CA. Microsoft is participating in the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 track of the SDC, delivering 9 of the 18 sessions in this track.Microsoft is also underwriting the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest at the SDC and many of Microsoft’s SMB2 architects, developers, and testers will be there. They will … Continue reading Microsoft at the SNIA Storage Developer Conference →

Storage Developer Conference presentation next week

Next week I will be delivering a presentation on “A CIFS/SMB/SMBV2 File Server Tool for Capacity Planning and Performance Troubleshooting” during SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA.You can see the agenda and some additional details in the public event agenda at http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2008/agenda2008. I can’t disclose any additional information before the event, but the … Continue reading Storage Developer Conference presentation next week →

Requirements for production deployment of Exchange Server 2007 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

A new article has been posted on TechNet covering “Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware Virtualization Environments”. This article, posted this week, marks the first time that I have seen details on the requirements for a supported Exchange Server 2007 implementation with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V in production. In short, for … Continue reading Requirements for production deployment of Exchange Server 2007 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V →

Failover Clustering for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with File Server Storage

P.P.S.: This previously unsupported scenario is now fine with Windows Server "8" Beta and SMB 2.2. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/03/06/windows-server-quot-8-quot-beta-test-cases-for-hyper-v-over-smb.aspx P.S.: After writing this blog post, I found that the specific scenario of using Hyper-V VHDs files on a file share is not supported by Microsoft in Windows Server 2008. This is documented at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183729.aspx. Look for a … Continue reading Failover Clustering for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with File Server Storage →

Using Constrained Delegation to remotely manage a server running Hyper-V that uses CIFS/SMB file shares

P.P.S.: This previously unsupported scenario is now fine with Windows Server "8" Beta and SMB 2.2. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/03/06/windows-server-quot-8-quot-beta-test-cases-for-hyper-v-over-smb.aspx P.S.: After writing this blog post, I found that the specific scenario of using Hyper-V VHDs files on a file share is not supported by Microsoft in Windows Server 2008. This is documented at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183729.aspx. Look for a … Continue reading Using Constrained Delegation to remotely manage a server running Hyper-V that uses CIFS/SMB file shares →

Storing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V files on a CIFS/SMB file share

P.P.S.: This previously unsupported scenario is now fine with Windows Server "8" Beta and SMB 2.2. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/03/06/windows-server-quot-8-quot-beta-test-cases-for-hyper-v-over-smb.aspx P.S.: After writing this blog post, I found that the specific scenario of using Hyper-V VHDs files on a file share is not supported by Microsoft in Windows Server 2008. This is documented at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183729.aspx. Look for a … Continue reading Storing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V files on a CIFS/SMB file share →

Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services (Upcoming Level 300 Webcast)

Heads up for an upcoming webcast on the new file service features in Windows Server 2008 by Drew McDaniel, a Senior Program Manager with the Microsoft Storage Solutions Division (SSD). Here's a short description: "The Windows Server 2008 operating system contains a lot of changes to core file services components that dramatically increase availability, scalability, and … Continue reading Deep Dive into Windows Server 2008 File Services (Upcoming Level 300 Webcast) →

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options

There are many ways to implement Windows Server Failover Clustering with Hyper-V. I could actually find five unique methods to do it. Some of them will actually not give you a fully fault-tolerant solution, but most of them actually make sense in specific scenarios (even if only for demonstrations). In any case, just trying to … Continue reading Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options →

Windows Storage Server (and WUDSS) History at the Windows Storage Server blog

Scott Johnson added another post to the Storage Server blog, this time focusing on the History of the Windows Storage Server, all the way up to the Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 Refresh, released in August of 2007. Did you know, for instance, that the WUDSS 2003 Refresh introduced support for iSCSI dual-active clustering, … Continue reading Windows Storage Server (and WUDSS) History at the Windows Storage Server blog →

New Storage Server Blog

Scott Johnson (Program Manager for the Windows Storage Server product line) has just added the the first post on a brand new blog on Windows Storage Server. This first post is a comprehensive list of all the key features of Windows Storage Server and Windows Unified Data Storage Server. Check it out at http://blogs.technet.com/storageserver/archive/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-windows-storage-server-blog.aspx