1. Windows Enterprise Storage Directions
James Pinkerton Architect Core File Systems Microsoft Corporation

2. Agenda Situational Summary Storage Vision for Branch and Hubs
Interfaces for Innovation
Microsoft Storage Roadmap

3. Customer Situation Disk Replacing Tape Distributed Environments
Moving Beyond File Data
Management costs

4. Storage Management Is Too Expensive At All Layers
Block level
Daily Issues
Pro-active versus re-active fault management
Adding/removing disks
Managing the boot volume
Capacity planning
Tension between DAS initial cost of ownership and SAN total cost of ownership
File Level
Backup and recovery
Quotas
Security management
System Level
Managing a distributed environment
Managing storage consolidation
System errors which map to storage errors (chkdsk,etc.)

5. Enterprise Deployment Models
Server in the Hub
Headquarters or other central location
Highly skilled/specialized IT staff
Provides shared, cross-org infrastructure
Network is lower latency, higher throughput
Server in the Branch
Geographically distinct from hub location, relatively small
Minimal IT staff
Infrastructure dedicated to single location
Network is much higher latency, lower throughput
Enterprise Desktop
(out-of-scope for this track)

6. Consolidation – Branch To Hub
Server consolidation focus is shifting to branch server consolidation
Choices are less obvious – TCO gains come with trade-offs
Servers in central sites?
Servers in branch sites? or
Lower server management costs
WANs decrease branch productivity
Many application not tuned for lower bandwidth, higher latency, availability of WAN
Higher server management costs
Backup, recovery, repair, etc…
Increases branch productivity/autonomy

7. Branch Business Impact
Branch impact on servers and storage
25% of all servers are in branches (nearly 50% in organizations with multiple locations!)
30% of businesses have branches
33% of IT budgets are consumed by Branches
55% of larger organizations’ (1000+ employees) headcount located in branch sites
Larger organizations (1000+ employees) spent U.S. $25B on WANs in 2003
However
Traditional market trackers don’t track branch contributions to storage
Sources: Harte-Hanks 2004, AMI Partners 2003

8. Storage Vision

9. Universal Distributed Storage

10. Universal Distributed Storage
Industry-standard hardware
Mainstreaming high-end technology
Rich partner ecosystem
Distributed
Ubiquitous and always accessible
Datacenter, departments and branch offices
DAS, NAS, SAN, CAS

11. Universal Distributed Storage A standards based platform with strong partnerships
Industry-standard hardware and interfaces
Strong support for evolving hardware standards
INCITS T10 – SAS
INCITS T11 – Fibre Channel, SM-HBA, FC-HBA
INCITS T13 – SATA
New interfaces
IETF – iSCSI, iSNS
SNIA – Fixed Content Addressable Storage (FCAS), SMI-S
DMTF – WS-Management
NFS as a first tier file system
Mainstreaming high-end technology
Today: MPIO, Snapshots, iSCSI target, Storage Explorer, SIS
Tomorrow: Transactions, Fixed Content Storage
Rich partner ecosystem

12. Rich Partner Eco-System Some of our valued partners in storage
Storage Servers
Storage Arrays
SAN Interconnects

13. Universal Distributed Storage Beyond file data – DAS, NAS, SAN, CAS
Storage Fabric as easy to deploy as file shares
Preferred Storage Platform
Early fault detection
Simple SAN
Simple Management for SANS (SMfS)
Web Services Management (WS-Management)
Diskless Boot
Enhanced application robustness and capabilities through new storage semantics
Transactional File System
Common Log File System
Fixed Content Storage (Content Addressable Storage)

14. Universal Distributed Storage Beyond file data – Transactions
Transacted File System – Enables more robust application behavior for complex operations – examples
Registry updates
Updates to multiple files on the same volume
Updates to multiple files across multiple volumes
Updates to multiple local and remote files
Transacted Platform
Common Log File System
Filter Manager
Kernel Transaction Manager

15. Universal Distributed Storage Ubiquitous and always accessible
Reliable and Scalable
Multi-pathing fail-over and load balancing
Single Instance Store (SIS)
Self healing NTFS
Symbolic Links
Volume Manager
Large sector drives
LUN/Volume Shrink
Easy integration into Unix environments
Services For Unix (SFU) is now part of the OS
Easy backup and recovery
Snapshots
Data Protection Manager

16. Universal Distributed Storage Innovation for the branch office
Better replication – reduction of WAN bandwidth
DFS-Replication – differential compression
New improvements in SYSVOL and on-demand replication
Improved performance
SMB 2.0
Client Side Cache (CSC) improvements
Filecopy performance
Improved security within the branch
Secure Startup
Read-Only DC
Easier to deploy
Appliance: Full-featured branch office SKU

17. Optional Disposable Replaceable Continuity of Services
Branch Office Vision
A simple, self-healing, self diagnosing, “admin-free” server
Optional Disposable Replaceable
Clients failover to a central server
Service cache
Easy to re-provision replacements
Service Accelerator
State-of-the-art compression
Limits bandwidth usage
Mitigates WAN latency
Continuity of Services
Local request handling
Store-and-forward to central server

18. Windows Server 2003 R2 Performance improvements
NFS version 3 Spec SFS97*
UDP (prior Windows Server 2003 best was 13319)
TCP (prior Windows Server 2003 best was 9209)
*Based on HP hardware.
See for full information

19. Remote Differential Compression (RDC)
New protocol that identifies sub-file changes
Updates to objects: Efficiently detects insertions, removals, re-arrangements of data in files
New objects: Efficiently discovers and re-uses relevant pieces of object on receiving machine
Dramatic reduction in bandwidth consumption
Generalized technique – completely file type agnostic
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20. Longhorn and Vista Beta 2 Status: Remote Filesystem Perf
Current Vista & Longhorn improvements:
SMB 2.0 protocol has pipelined transfers
CopyfileEx pipelining
Cache manager and memory manager deferred writes
TCP receive window auto-tuning
Future improvements: small file workloads
Benchmark details
Data presented today is just a status report
Xcopy used to move the data
Hi-Perf client and server disks (10K RPM, RAID)
Vista build 5306 and 5294
WAN latency is emulated on a 1 gigabit Ethernet

21. Filecopy and SMB 2.0 Performance
Hub
(LAN)
Branch
(100 ms WAN)

22. Windows Platform And Solutions WinHEC content
Platform Technologies
Solution Technologies
SMB 2.0
NFS
Text Legend
Network and Distribution
DFS Namespaces
DFS Replication
Offline Files
Storage
Track
Business
System
Self-healing and
Transactional
NTFS
Common Log
Files and Folders
Server Backup, DPM
FSRM
SIS
Disk Defragmenter
BitLocker
File Server Role
Integrated UX
Volume
VDS & SMI-S
VSS
Storage Fabrics
Optical Platform
New H/W Support
SMfS, Storage Explorer
Volume Manager
S/W iSCSI Target/Initiator
Physical Disk

23. Storage At WinHEC Storage Track Business Track
Windows Storage Directions – Overview of Storage Track at WinHEC
Storage Area Networks
Windows SAN: Resolving Technical Barriers to Adoption and Deployment
Enabling Diskless Windows Boot with iSCSI
General
Storage Management Directions
The Windows Storage Driver Stack in Depth
Windows Vista Storage Support and Logo Requirements
Before Terabytes Fail: Disk Reliability in Windows Vista and Beyond
Business Track
Backup and Restore in Windows Vista and Windows Server “Longhorn”
System Fundamentals Track
Microsoft BitLocker™ Drive Encryption: Hardware Enhanced Data Protection
Enterprise and Server Use of Microsoft BitLocker™ Drive Encryption
How to Write a Device Driver that Doesn’t Break on Partitioned Systems
Developing for the Windows Hardware Error Architecture

24. Interfaces For Innovation

25. Interfaces For Innovation
Solution Technologies
Interfaces For Innovation
Platform Technologies
SMB 2.0
NFS
Network and Distribution
DFS Namespaces
DFS Replication
Offline Files
File Server Role
Integrated UX
Filter Manager
Self-healing and
Transactional
NTFS
Common Log
RDC
Files and Folders
Server Backup, DPM
FSRM
SIS
Disk Defragmenter
BitLocker
Volume
VDS & SMI-S
VSS
Storage Fabrics
Optical Platform
New H/W Support
SMfS, Storage Explorer
Volume Manager
S/W iSCSI Target/Initiator
Physical Disk 25

26. Storage In Windows SKUs
Windows Server 2003 R2
General purpose server
File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)
Quotas, screening, reporting
Storage Management for SANS
iSCSI remote boot
VDS 1.1
NFS is a standard feature, has substantial performance improvements
Common Log Filesystem (CLFS)
DFS Replication and Management
Sharepoint
Windows Storage Server (WSS) 2003 R2
NAS appliance (OEM only) version of Windows Server R2, plus
Single Instance Store (SIS)
Optimized for file workloads
Search optimizations
Future: Windows Storage Server feature pack
Functionality to enable WSS to compete in Data Center class NAS, including
iSCSI software target
Improved storage management interfaces

27. Microsoft Windows: Roadmap For Storage Innovation
Connectivity
SAN
Friendly
SAN
Integration
Virtualization
Reliability
Longhorn
SAN connectivity
Improved clustering
Better load balancing
Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS)
Virtual Disk Services (VDS)
Flexible volume mounting
Multipath IO
SAN Boot
iSCSI (SAN over IP)
Data Protection Manager
HBA-API
Storage Manager for SANs (SMfS)
File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)
VDS 1.1
iSCSI remote boot
SMB 2.0
Self-healing NTFS
File system transactions
Filecopy performance
Volume based encryption
Client Side Cache
DFS improvements (replication, namespace)
Storage Explorer
Server Backup
IPv6 storage fabrics
iSCSI target

28. Call To Action
Understand, support, and take advantage of storage enhancements coming in Vista
Look for synergy between your future plans for storage device product and feature development and Microsoft’s key areas for investment

29. ws-store @ microsoft.com
3/27/2017 2:27 AM
Additional Resources
Web Resources
DMTF Specs:
WS-Management
SMI-S:
Look for the 1.2 specification when it’s released
Windows Server 2003 R2 Storage Features /storage/default.mspx
for information:
microsoft.com
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.