Dave Kawula’s Notes from the Field on Storage Spaces Direct 7/5/2018 7:22 AM THR3017 Dave Kawula’s Notes from the Field on Storage Spaces Direct Dave Kawula - MVP © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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Agenda What is Storage Spaces Direct?? The Good Stuff A Special Gift just for you Cool Scripts 3rd Party Add-Ons

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Industry-standard servers with internal drives

Let’s cluster them

Software-defined “pool” of storage

Cache, tiers, resiliency, columns – all configured automagically P O O L Cache, tiers, resiliency, columns – all configured automagically

P O O L

We’re ready to create volumes! P O O L We’re ready to create volumes!

Volumes have built-in resiliency P O O L Volumes have built-in resiliency

V O L U M E S P O O L If drives fail

V O L U M E S P O O L Or whole nodes go down

All data stays online and accessible V O L U M E S P O O L All data stays online and accessible

V O L U M E S P O O L

Windows Server Software Defined (WSSD) Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Standard Converged Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Premium https://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/windows/hardware/mt778984(v=vs.85).aspx

Vendor Certified Solutions Dell/ EMC Ready http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20444043/download

Vendor Certified Solutions Mellanox https://community.mellanox.com/docs/DOC-2778

DIY Solutions / LAB Master Storage Spaces Direct http://amzn.to/2tbUi1o

DIY Solutions / LAB Hyper-V – Big Demo Hyper-V WSLAB MS Premier www.github.com/dkawula Hyper-V WSLAB MS Premier https://github.com/Microsoft/ws20 16lab Azure ARM Template https://azure.microsoft.com/en- us/resources/templates/301- storage-spaces-direct/

The Secret Sauce (RDMA) Host Channel Adapter (HCA) Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Mellanox CX3-Pro are certified with the Dell/EMC Ready Configuration

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Are you Ready for the good stuff??

If using RDMA (RoCE) then configure Data Center Bridging If not don’t enable it!

Stick with supported and Tested Firmware / Drivers Versions

If you storage jobs fail or stall… Change CSV Ownership to enable get them going

(get-cluster).S2DBusTypes=”0x100″ (Get-Cluster).S2DBusTypes=4294967295 Want Storage Spaces Direct to work on Any Hardware?? (get-cluster).S2DBusTypes=”0x100″ (Get-Cluster).S2DBusTypes=4294967295

Want a pretty little reporting solution for S2D? Get Starwind Manager for Free https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-manager

Tweak VMFleet’s Watch-Cluster.ps1

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Our other Sessions this week THR1045- Go from Zero to Hero using Azure Site Recovery – OCC South Expo Theater #1 – Tuesday 2:50-3:10 POD2002 – Interact with an MVP discussion Panel about Windows – OCC South Restaurant Wednesday 10:00-11:00 BRK1065 – Cristal Kawula – Women in Technology Community Leaders – Wednesday THR3017R – Dave Kawula’s Notes from the Field on Storage Spaces Direct (Repeat) – OCC West Building Theater Level 2 – Wednesday 2:50-3:10