4. Windows Server 2012 introduces technologies at the
storage layer that can replace traditional SAN
• Storage Spaces
• SMB 3.0
• Scale-Out File Server
When leveraged together, these enable high
performance, ease administration and lower cost

6. • Virtualization of storage with
Storage Pools and Storage
Spaces
• Storage resilience and
availability with commodity
hardware
• Resiliency and data
redundancy through
n-way mirroring (clustered or
unclustered) or parity mode
(unclustered)
• Utilization optimized through
thin and trim provisioning
and enclosure awareness
• Integration with other
Windows Server 2012
capabilities
• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
and Serial AT Attachment
(SATA) interconnects
Windows
Virtualized
Storage
Windows Application Server or File Server
Physical or
virtualized
deployments
Physical
Storage
(Shared) SAS or SATA
Integrated
with other
Windows
Server 2012
capabilities
Storage PoolStorage Pool
File Server
Administration Console
Hyper-V
Cluster Shared
Volume
Failover
Clustering
SMB Multichannel
NFS Windows Storage
Mgmt.
NTFS SMB Direct
Storage Space Storage Space Storage Space

7. • Highly available, shared
data store for SQL Server
databases and Hyper-V
workloads
• Increased flexibility, and
easier provisioning and
management
• Ability to take advantage
of existing network
infrastructure
• No application downtime
for planned maintenance
or unplanned failures with
failover clustering
• Highly available scale-out
file server
• Built-in encryption support
File Server
Cluster
Cluster Shared Volumes
Single File System Namespace
SMB
Single Logical Server FooShare
RAID
Array
RAID
Array
RAID
Array
SAN
Windows
Virtualized
Storage
Physical
Storage
Storage PoolStorage Pool
Storage Space Storage Space Storage Space
Hyper-V Cluster
Microsoft
SQL Server

8. VHD Library
Software Deployment
Share
General File
Share
User Home Folder
(My Docs)
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Average savings with Data Deduplication by workload type
Maximize capacity by removing
duplicate data
• 2:1 with file shares, 20:1 with virtual
storage
• Less data to back up, archive, and
migrate
Increased scale and performance
• Low CPU and memory impact
• Configurable compression schedule
• Transparent to primary server workload
Improved reliability and integrity
• Redundant metadata and critical data
• Checksums and integrity checks
• Increase availability through redundancy
Faster file download times with
BranchCache
Source: “Microsoft Internal Testing"

9. File Client
SMB
Buffer
File Server
With RDMAWithout RDMA
App
Buffer
SMB
Buffer
OS
Buffer
Driver
Buffer
SMB
Buffer
OS
Buffer
Driver
Buffer
App
Buffer
SMB
Buffer
rNICrNIC NIC Adapter
BufferNICAdapter
Buffer
Adapter
Buffer
Adapter
Buffer
iWARP
InfiniBand
• Higher performance
through offloading of
network I/O processing
onto network adapter
• High throughput with low
latency and ability to take
advantage of high-speed
networks (such as
InfiniBand and iWARP)
• Remote storage at the
speed of direct storage
• Transfer rate of around 50
Gbs on a single NIC port
• Compatible with SMB
Multichannel for load
balancing and failover

10. External Intelligent Storage Array
Virtual Disk Virtual Disk
Token
Benefits:
• Rapid virtual machine provisioning
and migration
• Faster transfers on large files
• Minimized latency
• Maximized array throughput
• Less CPU and network use
• Performance not limited by network
throughput or server use
• Improved datacenter capacity and
scale
Offloaded Data Transfer
(ODX)
Token-based data transfer between
intelligent storage arrays

11. Live migration maintaining
Fibre Channel connectivity
Hyper-V host 1 Hyper-V host 2
Worldwide
Name Set B
Worldwide
Name Set A
Worldwide
Name Set A
LIVE MIGRATION
• Virtualize workloads that require
direct access to FC storage
• Live migration support
• N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
support
• Single Hyper-V host connected to
different SANs
• Up to four Virtual Fibre Channel
adapters on a virtual machine
• Multipath I/O (MPIO) functionality
Access Fibre Channel SAN
data from a virtual machine

12. Shared Nothing Live Migration

13. SMI-S
Provider
Array1
GOLD
(Pool1)
SILVER
(Pool2)
Array2
BRONZE
(Pool1)
GREEN
(Pool2)

14. Available storage
logical units
Available storage
pools
Host groups
Unassigned
Storage
Assigned Storage

16. • Store Hyper-V files in shares over the SMB 3.0 protocol
(including VM configuration, VHD files, snapshots)
• Works with both standalone and clustered servers
(file storage used as cluster shared storage)
• Increases flexibility
• Eases provisioning, management and migration
• Leverages converged network
• Reduces CapEx and OpEx
• SMB Transparent Failover - Continuous availability
• SMB Scale-Out – Active/Active file server clusters
• SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) - Low latency, low CPU use
• SMB Multichannel – Network throughput and failover
• SMB Encryption - Security
• VSS for SMB File Shares - Backup and restore
• SMB PowerShell - Manageability

17. Multiple RDMA NICsMultiple 1GbE
NICs
Single 10GbE
RSS-capable
NIC
SMB Server
SMB Client
• Bandwidth aggregation with
multiple NICs
• Multiple CPUs cores engaged
when NIC offers Receive Side
Scaling (RSS)
• SMB Multichannel implements
end-to-end failure detection
• Leverages NIC teaming (LBFO) if
present, but does not require it
• SMB detects and uses multiple
paths
SMB Server
SMB Client
SMB Server
SMB Client
Sample Configurations
Multiple 10GbE
in LBFO team
SMB Server
SMB Client

18. Scale-Out File Share

20. Router Switch Compute Storage Edge Devices
Firewall
Security
Load Balancer
Physical
NICs
Rack

22. Converged Option1Converged Option1+Non-converged Converged Option2

25. Gateway
Tenant 1 Tenant 2
Physical Network
INTERNET
Logical Network
Logical Switch

26. IP POOLS
• Assigned to VMs,
vNICs, hosts, and
virtual IPs (VIP’s)
• Specified use in VM
template creation
• Checked out at VM
creation—assigns
static IP in VM
• Returned on VM
deletion
MAC POOLS VIRTUAL IP
POOLS
• Assigned to VMs
• Specified use in VM
template creation
• Checked out at VM
creation—assigned
before VM boot
• Returned on VM
deletion
• Assigned to service tiers
that use a load balancer
• Reserved within IP Pools
• Assigned to clouds
• Checked out at service
deployment
• Returned on service
deletion

27. Configuring Virtual Networking in VMM

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