The Journey to the 2012 R2 wave The 2012 R2 wave File Based Storage Storage Management for Private Cloud Storage Spaces

Cluster- Aware Updating SMB3 Virtual Fibre Channel Hyper-V Replica 8,000 VMs per Cluster VM Prioritization 64-node clusters Dedup Scale-Out File Server Storage Spaces Offload Data Transfer VM Storage Migration iSCSI Target Server ReFS VHDX Block storage provisioning File storage provisioning Hyper-V Storage Management SMI-S Storage Service NTFS Trim / Unmap NFS 4.1 SM API CSVFS online CHKDSK Storage Pool Classification iSCSI Target SMI-S Provider Thin Provision Alert Monitor SAN based Rapid Provisioning SM API Integration Storage Utilization Trending Dynamic iSCSI Target Array SAS Array Support Thin LUN provisioning Windows Server 2012 System Center 2012 SP1

Storage Spaces Cost-Effective Business Critical Storage File Based Storage High Performance SMB Protocol for Hyper-V Storage over Ethernet networks

Performance Faster enumerations through SMI-S storage service Real-time updates for out-of-band changes using CIM indications Fibre Channel Management Fibre channel fabric discovery and zone provisioning Support for Hyper-V virtual fibre channel Rapid Provisioning ODX optimized virtual machine deployments Rapid provisioning using differencing disks

Focused Scenarios for 2012 R2 wave Windows Server 2012 R2 is cloud optimized Private Clouds Hosted Clouds Cloud Service Providers Reducing capital and operational storage and availability costs

SMB Shared JBOD Storage Scale-Out File Server Hyper-V Clusters

Storage Spaces compatible JBOD SMI-S compliant subsystem SMP based subsystem Storag e Spaces Storage Management API (WMI) Windows Server 2012 Server Manager ISV or Storage Vendor Applications Windows Server now has a single standardized management interface to manage storage SMI-S compliant NAS SMI-S compliant Fibre Channel switch CIM Pass Through System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Scale-Out File Server Clusters Storage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency Hyper-V Clusters SMB Shared JBOD Storage Capacity Management Pool/volume/file share classification File share ACL management VM workload deployment to file shares Scale-out File Server Deployment Bare metal deployment of file server Creation of scale-out file server cluster Adding/removing file server nodes File share management Spaces Provisioning Discovery of physical spindles Storage pool creation and deletion Mirror and Parity Spaces creation and deletion End-to-end management of both file and block based storage with System Center Virtual Machine Manager

File Based Storage Block Storage VHDX Modernized Hyper-V with virtual SAS Flexibility of Guest Clustering with any storage topology Guest Clustering Guest Clustering with commodity storage Sharing VHDX files provides shared storage for Hyper-V Failover Clustering Maintains separation between infrastructure and tenants Virtual SAS VM presented a shared virtual SAS disk Appears as shared SAS disk to VM Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) on block storage Scale-Out File Server for file based storage Simplified configuration of Guest Clusters Scalable to create large node clusters

VHDX Support Provision LARGER (up to 64TB) LUs Online expand/shrink of LUs Provision dynamically-growing LUs SMI-S Support Fully manage iSCSI Target Server using SMI-S Empowers full end-to-end management with System Center Virtual Machine Manager Standards-based management iSCSI Target Server SCVMM iSCSI Target Server is highly scalable and flexible using VHDX Manage iSCSI Target Server out-of-the-box with SCVMM iSCSI Target Server delivers a comprehensive management experience

Scale-Out File Server Clusters Storage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency Hyper-V Clusters SMB Shared JBOD Storage

Scale-out File Server SMB Direct Hyper-V VHD 50% improvement for small IO workloads Efficiency Increased efficiency and density of hosting workloads with small I/O’s such as OLTP database in a VM Optimizes 40Gbps Ethernet and 56Gbps InfiniBand Performance 50% improvement for small IO workloads with SMB over RDMA Increased 8KB IOPs from ~300K IOPS to ~450K IOPS per interface

SMB File Server 2 File Server 1 Storage Spaces \\SOFS\Share2 Share1Share2Share1Share2 CSV and SMB shares automatically rebalanced Improved network efficiency through drastically reducing redirection traffic

Live migration can stream over multiple networks for improved bandwidth Live Migration can take advantage of high speed networking RDMA enables offloading CPU resources to NIC during live migration

VHDX Live Migration Limit = 500 MB/s Live Migration Limit = 500 MB/s Storage No Limit Storage No Limit Enables hosters to control different SMB traffic types Default Limit = 100 MB/s Default Limit = 100 MB/s Control Configurable SMB bandwidth limits per category Three defined SMB categories: Default, VirtualMachine and LiveMigration Common Infrastructure SMB being leveraged for VMs to access storage, distribution from VM library, and live migration Desire to manage bandwidth of different types of SMB communication

Hyper-V VHDX QoS VHDX Resize Expand or shrink a VHDX based virtual disk with no downtime Storage QoS Maximum IOPS Setting to limit the maximum IOPS allowed to a virtual disk Minimum IOPS Alerts Notifications when specified minimum IOPS are not met for a virtual disk VM Storage Metrics Storage attributes added to VM Metrics Average normalized IOPS Average latency

Simplify storage hardware and minimize hardware expenditures through Data Deduplication in Windows Server Gain space savings as high as 90% on VDI deployments with minimal impact Performance Faster read/write of optimized files Improved optimization speed Live VHD’s Deduplication of open VHD/VHDX files Scale-out File Server SMB Direct Hyper-V VDI VHD Dedup Compatibility Support for Scale-out File Server with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

Scale-Out File Server Clusters Storage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency Hyper-V Clusters SMB Shared JBOD Storage

Performance improvements to radically reduce MTTR Rebuild MetricMeasurement Data Rebuilt2,400 GB Time Taken49 min Rebuild Throughput> 800 MB/s

Tiered Storage Spaces provides persistent performance improvement for hot data The best of both worlds: SSD Performance & HDD Capacity Cold Data Hot Data 400GB EMLC SAS SSD 4TB 7200RPM SAS HDD

Windows Server 2012 R2 maximizes performance and capacity The Spaces Write-Back Cache absorbs spikes in random write activity Cold Data Hot Data 400GB EMLC SAS SSD 4TB 7200RPM SAS HDD

Reducing Costs Performance Scalability Manageability Reliability Improved IOPS performance with Write-Back Cache support Improved hot data performance through storage tiering using SSDs and HDDs in the same storage space 50% performance improvement for small IO in SMB Direct Hyper-V hosts automatically directed to the “best” file server node avoids unnecessary redirection traffic CSV volumes are automatically distributed across the cluster Hyper-V Live Migration using SMB3 Improved MTTR from drive failures through parallel rebuild Resilient to dual-drive failures in parity spaces SMB instances dedicated for CSV traffic Grow or shrink a virtual disk (VHDX) with no downtime Hyper-V Storage Quality of Service (QoS) Enhanced SM-API for remote management of scale-out file servers with storage spaces and improved performance Data deduplication of VDI storage on Scale-Out File Servers Tenant clustering without requiring Fibre Channel or iSCSI storage Scale-Out File Server Clusters Storage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency Hyper-V Clusters SMB Shared JBOD Storage

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