windows server 2012 beta storage overview
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Windows Server® 2012 BetaStorage Overview
The information contained in this document relates to a pre-release product which may be substantially modified before it is commercially released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied with respect to the information presented here.
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Windows Server 2012 Beta
Section
01
Windows Server 2012 Beta
Storage
2
Windows Server 2012 Beta
Storage Overview• Introduction and Overview of the Windows Server 2012 Beta
Storage Solution stack
Windows Server 2012 Beta Technical Detail• A closer look at some of the new Windows Server 2012 Beta
storage features
Section 101
3
Windows Server 2012 Beta 4
Storage – Platform Storage
• Platform Storage
• Clustering
• File and Block Access
• Networking
• Virtualization
• Management
• Powerful new platform abstractions with storage pools and storage spaces
• Offloaded data transfers
• Improved resilience to data corruption with ReFS
• Improved NTFS availability with Online Scanning and Repair
• Data deduplication• Thin provisioning
4
Windows Server 2012 Beta 5
Storage – Clustering
• Platform Storage
• Clustering
• File and Block Access
• Networking
• Virtualization
• Management
• Increased scale with Clustered Shared Volume v2 (more nodes, more VMs)
• Transparent and fast failover
• Higher availability for file shares and block-based storage clusters
• Support for iSCSI, SMB File Share, Storage Spaces, or FC SAN shared storage
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Fileshare
Windows Server 2012 Beta 6
Storage – File and Block Access
• Platform Storage
• Clustering
• File and Block Access
• Networking
• Virtualization
• Management
• Transparent failover for storage services
• Increased scale and fast, efficient access to application storage
• NFS v4.1 Server support
• Continuous availability for: • Hyper-V® and
Microsoft® SQL Server® data on SMB file shares
• App data on NFS v3 shares or iSCSI Target Server
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Windows Server 2012 Beta 7
Storage - Networking
• Platform Storage
• Clustering
• File and Block Access
• Networking
• Virtualization
• Management
• High performance data transfers with SMB Direct
• Application storage capabilities on SMB shares
• New multipathing solutions with SMB Multichannel
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Windows Server 2012 Beta 8
Storage - Virtualization
• Platform Storage
• Clustering
• File and Block Access
• Networking
• Virtualization
• Management
• Availability of guest virtual machines on Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs)
• Live migration outside cluster boundaries
• Increased storage capacity and data protection with new VHDX format
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Windows Server 2012 Beta 9
Storage - Management
• Platform Storage
• Clustering
• File and Block Access
• Networking
• Virtualization
• Management
• SMI-S and WMI Management
• Multiserver management capabilities
• Remote server management
• New Windows PowerShell cmdlets
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Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 Beta 10
Storage Overview• Introduction and Overview of the Windows Server 2012 Beta
Storage Solution stack
Windows Server 2012 Beta Technical Details• A closer look at some of the new Windows Server 2012 Beta
storage and availability features
Section 202
Windows Server 2012 Beta
Platform Storage – Disk I/OFlexible storage options with Storage Spaces
• Virtualizes commodity storage into Storage Spaces and Storage Pools
• Integration with other Windows Server 2012 Beta capabilities
• Provides storage resilience and availability from commodity storage
• SAS and SATA interconnects
• Cluster support
WindowsVirtualizedStorage
Windows Application Servers or File ServersPhysical or virtualized deployments
PhysicalStorage
(Shared) SAS or SATA
Integrated with otherWindows 8 Consumer Preview capabilities
Storage Pool
Storage
SpacesStorage Pool
Storage
Spaces
Storage Pool
Storage
Spaces
File Server Administration
Console
Hyper-V
Cluster Shared Volumes
Failover Clustering
SMB Multichannel
NFS Windows Storage Mgmt.
NTFS SMB Direct
Windows Server 2012 Beta 12
Platform Storage – Disk I/O
ODX Benefits• Rapid virtual provisioning and
migration• Faster transfers for large files• Array throughput maximization• Less CPU and network usage• Performance not limited by network
throughput or server usage• Improved data center capacity and
scale
Offloaded Data Transfers (ODX)
Token-based copy operation
Windows Server 2012 Beta
Platform Storage – Local File System
• ReFS File System• Greater compatibility
with SATA standards• Resilience against
power outage corruption
• Online corruption recovery
• Scale to petabyte+ data sets
• Implements on-disk structures, such as the Master File Table, to represent files and directories.
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New Storage Capabilities with Resilient File System (ReFS)
Windows Server 2012 Beta 14
Platform Storage – Local File SystemNTFS Availability, Reliable Crash Recovery, and Improved SATA Reliability
• NTFS/ReFS self-healing capabilities
• Automated health checking on NTFS
• Chkdsk improvements reduce downtime
• Improved SATA reliability
Time to complete Chkdsk operation on a single instance of corruption in minutes
Windows Server 2012 Beta
Platform Storage – Local File System
• Capacity Optimization• 2:1 with File Shares• 20:1 with Virtual
Storage
• Scale and Performance• Low CPU & memory
impact• Configured
scheduling
• Reliability and Integrity• Redundant metadata• Checksums and
integrity checks
• Even greater efficiency with BranchCache
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Storage efficiency with Data Deduplication
On-disk transformation of files during data deduplication
Average savings with data deduplication by workload type
File
2
Metadata DataName,
attributes,..A B C X YF
ile
1
Metadata DataName,
attributes,..A B C M N
File
1
MetadataName,
attributes,..
Sparse
Reparse Data
File
2
MetadataName,
attributes,..
Sparse
Reparse Data
Chunk Store
A B C M N
X Y
Data chunks
Windows Server 2012 Beta 16
Platform Storage – Local File System
Storage Utilization• Identification• Notification• Optimization• Compatibility
Thin Provisioning and Trim
Virtual Disk orStorage Space
NTFS
Filters
Hyper-V Virtual
Machine
Windows Server 2012 Beta 17
Clustering
• An industry-best 4,000 virtual machines per cluster
• Massive scale out to 64 nodes
• Support for true live migration
• Extend clustered shared volumes (CSV v2) scale out support to new workloads.
• Remote multiple-server management through Server Manager
New cluster scale up and scale out capabilities
SCALE OUTS
CA
LE
UP
4,000 virtual machines in a single cluster
64 nodes in a
cluster
Windows Server 2012 Beta 18
File and Block Access
• iSCSI network boot• Typically used for
Hyper-V host boot and HPC boot
• Rapid deployment• Quick recovery• Reduce capital
expenditures and operating expenditures
• Ease of management
iSCSI Target Server with Network Boot
Windows Server 2012 Beta 19
File and Block Access
• Transparent failover support for NFS v3 clients
• UNIX, Linux, and VMware support
• New RPC-XDR runtime infrastructure and DLLs make NFS failover faster than ever
High availability storage for UNIX, Linux, and VMware
Windows Server 2012 Beta
Hyper-VCluster
Single File System Namespace
Single Logical Server \\Foo\Share
File Server Cluster
Cluster SharedVolumes
SMB
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File and Block Access
• High-availability scale out file server
• SQL Server and Hyper-V data store
• Single file system namespace
• Zero application downtime for both planned maintenance and unplanned failures
• Active/active access
High-availability scalable storage for Hyper-V and SQL Server
Windows Server 2012 Beta
File and Block Access
• Hyper-V can now leverage file share storage for virtual storage
• Application-specific capabilities for Hyper-V and SQL Server workload types
• Leverage new high-performance and high-availability SMB features for applications
• Cluster-Aware Updating for applications 21
SMB Application Support for SQL Server and Hyper-V
Windows Server 2012 Beta 22
NetworkingNetwork Performance and Availability – SMB Direct (RDMA)
• New class of SMB file storage• Minimal CPU utilization for I/O
processing• Low-latency with ability to
leverage high-speed networks (InfiniBand and iWARP)
• Traditional advantages of SMB file storage:
• Easy to provision and migrate• Leverages converged networks• No app change or admin
configuration• Can be used with SMB
Multichannel for load balancing and failover
Windows Server 2012 Beta
Networking
• MPIO capabilities without Fibre Channel
• Improved performance and resiliency for SMB shares
• Can use 1 GbE, 10 GbE or InfiniBand
• Can be used alongside other features like SMB Direct for even greater performance.
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Network Performance and Availability – SMB Multichannel
Multiple 10GbE/IB RSS-capable NICs
Multiple 1GbE NICs
SMB Server
SMB Client
Switch
SMB Server
SMB Client
1Gb
1Gb
Switch
1Gb
1Gb
Switch
10Gb
10GbE
Switch
10Gb
10GbE
Windows Server 2012 Beta 24
Virtualization
• Unmediated access to a SAN
• Hardware-based I/O path to virtual hard disk stack
• NPIV support• A single Hyper-V
host connected to different SANs
• Up to four Virtual Fibre Channel HBAs per virtual machine
• MPIO functionality• Live migration
Virtual Fibre Channel Support
DSM
Guest
MPIO
DSM
Guest
MPIO
Switch Fabric
SAN
Windows Server 2012 Beta
Management
• Gives administrators a centralized storage management interface
• SMI-S compliant SAN management from Windows Server Manager
• Remote management of servers and server storage
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Unified storage management with SMI-S and WMI
Windows Server 2012 Beta
Maximizing reliability and availability
Reducing storage costs & increasing cost effectiveness
Improving performance and capabilities
Windows Server 2012 Beta - Your storage solution
Increasing storage management efficiency
Conclusion
• Storage Spaces• ReFS• CSV v2• Thin Provisioning• Data Deduplication• NFS 3.1 & NFS 4.1
support
• Comprehensive storage management
• New Windows PowerShell cmdlets
• SMI-S and SMP support
• Remote storage management
• All from a single interface
• SMB Direct• SMB Multichannel• SMB Scale Out• SQL Server over SMB• Hyper-V over SMB• Offloaded Data
Transfer• Live Storage
Migration• Virtual Fibre Channel
• Continuous Availability SMB, iSCSI & NFS
• Online scanning and repair in NTFS and ReFS
• Faster CHKDSK in NTFS
• Storage Spaces with ReFS
• SMB Transparent Failover
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