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Windows Server 2012 Scale-Out File Server for SQL Server 2012 - Step-by-step...
Outline1. Introduction1.1. Overview 1.2. Hardware 1.3. Software 1.4. Notes and disclaimers2. Install Windows Server 20122.1. Preparations 2.2. Install the OS 2.3. Rename the computer 2.4. Enable Remote...
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Test Hyper-V over SMB configuration with Windows Server 2012 - Step-by-step...
1. OverviewIn 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...
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Windows Server 2012, File Servers and SMB 3.0 – Simpler and Easier by Design
1. IntroductionI 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...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Use multiple subnets when deploying SMB...
SMB Multichannel will let you use multiple network interfaces at once for added throughput and network fault tolerance. When using it with non-clustered file servers, you have the most flexible...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Continuous Availability does not work...
When deploying the Continuous Availability feature of the new File Server clusters in Windows Server 2012, be careful not to use volumes that have either 8.3 naming or NTFS compression enabled.If you...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Enable CSV Caching on Scale-Out File...
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in Windows Server 2012 has a great new feature to allow using system memory as a write-through cache. Since Scale-Out File Server Clusters use CSV, enabling this CSV cache...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage: Step-by-step with Storage Spaces, SMB...
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Windows Server...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage: Step-by-step with Storage Spaces, SMB...
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers Windows Server...
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What’s new in SMB PowerShell in Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a new version of SMB. Technically it’s SMB 3.02, but we continue to call it just SMB3. The main changes are described at...
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Networking configurations for Hyper-V over SMB in Windows Server 2012 and...
One of the questions regarding Hyper-V over SMB that I get the most relates to how the network should be configured. Networking is key to several aspects of the scenario, including performance,...
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Automatic SMB Scale-Out Rebalancing in Windows Server 2012 R2
Introduction This blog post focus on the new SMB Scale-Out Rebalancing introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2. If you haven’t seen it yet, it delivers a new way of balancing file clients accessing a...
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Selecting the number of nodes for your Scale-Out File Server Cluster
I recently got a stream of e-mails and questions about the maximum number of cluster nodes you can have in a Scale-Out File Server cluster. For the record, we test and support up to 8 nodes per file...
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Windows Server 2012 and SMB 3.0 – Understanding how SMB Transparent Failover...
There is a new blog post by Claus Joergensen, a Principal Program Manager in the File Server team, that covers the SMB Transparent Failover feature in Windows Server 2012 and SMB 3.0. Claus covers all...
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File Server team sessions at TechEd 2012 Europe
If you're planning to attend the TechEd 2012 Europe event in June, here are the scheduled sessions with speakers from the File Server team:CodeTitleSpeaker(s)DayTimeLocationLevelWSV04-LNCWindows Server...
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Windows Server 2012 Scale-Out File Server for SQL Server 2012 - Step-by-step...
Outline1. Introduction1.1. Overview 1.2. Hardware 1.3. Software 1.4. Notes and disclaimers2. Install Windows Server 20122.1. Preparations 2.2. Install the OS 2.3. Rename the computer 2.4. Enable Remote...
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Test Hyper-V over SMB configuration with Windows Server 2012 - Step-by-step...
1. OverviewIn 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...
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Windows Server 2012, File Servers and SMB 3.0 – Simpler and Easier by Design
1. IntroductionI 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...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Use multiple subnets when deploying SMB...
SMB Multichannel will let you use multiple network interfaces at once for added throughput and network fault tolerance. When using it with non-clustered file servers, you have the most flexible...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Continuous Availability does not work...
When deploying the Continuous Availability feature of the new File Server clusters in Windows Server 2012, be careful not to use volumes that have either 8.3 naming or NTFS compression enabled.If you...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Enable CSV Caching on Scale-Out File...
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in Windows Server 2012 has a great new feature to allow using system memory as a write-through cache. Since Scale-Out File Server Clusters use CSV, enabling this CSV cache...
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