Arnaud Torres is a Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft in France who sent me the PowerShell script below called "Drive Performance Report Generator".He created the script to test a wide range of profiles in one run to allow people to build a baseline of their storage using DiskSpd.EXE.The script is written in PowerShell v1 and … Continue reading Drive Performance Report Generator – PowerShell script using DiskSpd by Arnaud Torres
Tag: Windows Server
New PowerShell cmdlets in Windows Server 2016 TP2 (compared to Windows Server 2012 R2)
1. State the problem With the release of Windows Server 2016 TP2 a few weeks ago, I was wondering what new PowerShell cmdlets are now included (when you compare to Windows Server 2012 R2). However, the list of cmdlets is so long now that it is hard to spot the differences by hand. … Continue reading New PowerShell cmdlets in Windows Server 2016 TP2 (compared to Windows Server 2012 R2)
Do you have a suggestion? Check the User Voice sites for several Microsoft products and services
Several teams at Microsoft are now using a User Voice site as your place to suggest ideas on how to improve specific products and services. These sites make it easier for the teams to receive your suggestions and listen to what you say. Here are the User Voice sites that I could find: ASP Net … Continue reading Do you have a suggestion? Check the User Voice sites for several Microsoft products and services
PowerShell script used in the Windows Server 2016 TP2 Storage QoS demo at MSIgnite
This is the Windows PowerShell script I used in the Microsoft Ignite 2015 session on Storage QoS: Hyper-V Storage Performance with Storage Quality of Service. You can also find that demo video by itself at Windows Server 2016 TP2 Storage QoS: Managing with a PowerShell script. The script is fairly straightforward, but there … Continue reading PowerShell script used in the Windows Server 2016 TP2 Storage QoS demo at MSIgnite
Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 (TP2) and Storage Quality of Service (QoS)
Storage Quality of Service (Storage QoS) is a new feature in the upcoming Windows Server 2016 that provides a way to centrally monitor and manage storage performance for virtual machines. The feature automatically improves storage resource fairness between multiple virtual machines using the same file server cluster and allows specific minimum and maximum performance … Continue reading Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 (TP2) and Storage Quality of Service (QoS)
What’s new in SMB 3.1.1 in the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2
1. Introduction Every new version of Windows brings updates to our main remote file protocol, known as SMB (Server Message Block). If you’re not familiar with it, you can find some information in this previous blog post: Windows Server 2012 R2: Which version of the SMB protocol (SMB 1.0, SMB 2.0, SMB 2.1, SMB … Continue reading What’s new in SMB 3.1.1 in the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2
SMB3 Networking Links for Windows Server 2012 R2
Someone asked me for a good collection of links about SMB3 Networking, including SMB Multichannel, SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) and SMB Performance. Here’s what I offered: SMB Multichannel TechEd 2012 - SMB Multichannel and NIC Teaming (SMB Multichannel covered on the second half) Jose’s Blog - The basics of SMB Multichannel, a feature … Continue reading SMB3 Networking Links for Windows Server 2012 R2
Storage Sessions at Microsoft Ignite. Make sure to update your schedule!
Hi! If you’re planning to attend Ignite, here is a list of sessions related to Storage at the event: Code Session title Presenters BRK3496 Deploying Private Cloud Storage with Dell Servers and Windows Server vNext Claus Joergensen, Shai Ofek, Syama Poluri BRK3474 Enabling New On-premises Scale-Out File Server with Direct-Attached Storage Claus Joergensen, Michael Gray … Continue reading Storage Sessions at Microsoft Ignite. Make sure to update your schedule!
The Deprecation of SMB1 – You should be planning to get rid of this old SMB dialect
I regularly get a question about when will SMB1 be completely removed from Windows. This blog post summarizes the current state of this old SMB dialect in Windows client and server. 1) SMB1 is deprecated, but not yet removed We already added SMB1 to the Windows Server 2012 R2 deprecation list in June 2013. … Continue reading The Deprecation of SMB1 – You should be planning to get rid of this old SMB dialect
Windows PowerShell equivalents for common networking commands (IPCONFIG, PING, NSLOOKUP)
Network troubleshooting is part any System Administrator’s life. Maybe you need to check the IP address of a machine or test if its networking connection is working. Maybe you need to see if DNS is properly configured or check the latency between two hosts. If you have been in this field long enough, you probably … Continue reading Windows PowerShell equivalents for common networking commands (IPCONFIG, PING, NSLOOKUP)
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