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
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: New per-share SMB client performance counters provide great insight
Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 include a new set of performance counters that can greatly help understand the performance of the SMB file protocol. These include new counters on both the server side and the client side. In this post, I wanted to call your attention to the new client-side counters that show the … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: New per-share SMB client performance counters provide great insight
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: Switch to the High Performance power profile
When you install a fresh copy of Windows Server 2012 and configure it with the File Server role, the default Power Setting balances power efficiency and performance. For this reason, even if you have a few high speed network interfaces and the fastest SSD storage out there, you might not be getting the very best IOPS … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Switch to the High Performance power profile
SNIA Tutorials cover a wealth of Storage knowledge (SNW Fall 2012 Update)
I’m always amazed by the vast amount of knowledge being posted online for free download. If you are an IT Professional who deals with Storage (or if you manage one of them), check out the high-quality tutorials just posted online by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA). These peer-reviewed, vendor-neutral tutorials, offered by the SNIA … Continue reading SNIA Tutorials cover a wealth of Storage knowledge (SNW Fall 2012 Update)
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
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)
SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2012 is just a few weeks away
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 9th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 17th. As usual, Microsoft is underwriting the SMB/SMB2/SMB3 Plugfest, which is co-located with the SDC event. For developers working with storage-related technologies, this event gathers … Continue reading SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2012 is just a few weeks away
Test Hyper-V over SMB configuration with Windows Server 2012 – Step-by-step Installation using PowerShell
1. Overview In this post, I am sharing all the steps I used to create a Windows Server 2012 File Server test environment that I used for some of my Hyper-V over SMB demonstrations. My goal with this post is to share some of configuration details and the exact PowerShell scripts I used to configure … Continue reading Test Hyper-V over SMB configuration with Windows Server 2012 – Step-by-step Installation using PowerShell
Windows Server 2012 Scale-Out File Server for SQL Server 2012 – Step-by-step Installation
Outline 1. Introduction 1.1. Overview 1.2. Hardware 1.3. Software 1.4. Notes and disclaimers 2. Install Windows Server 2012 2.1. Preparations 2.2. Install the OS 2.3. Rename the computer 2.4. Enable Remote Desktop 3. Configure the Hyper-V Host 3.1. Install the Hyper-V role to the server 3.2. Create the VM switches 3.3. Rename the network adapters … Continue reading Windows Server 2012 Scale-Out File Server for SQL Server 2012 – Step-by-step Installation
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