Business and Partnering Opportunities: “Windows Server 8” Continuous Availability Designing Systems for Continuous Availability and Scalability Session 446 Designing Systems for Continuous Availability – Multi- node with Remote File Storage Session 444 Building Continuously Available File Server NAS Appliances Session 449 Platform Storage Evolved Session 474 Designing Systems for Continuous Availability – Multi- node with Block Storage Session 450 Building Continuously Available Systems with Hyper-V Session 451 Session 443

Windows 8 enables partners to deliver differentiated, continuously available, scalable, cost-effective storage solutions Evolution of the storage platform Availability Manageability Optimal Utilization Delivering cost-effective business-critical storage solutions with industry standard storage Maximizing value from external storage subsystems OEMs System Integrators Storage ISVs Storage IHVs Server application developers WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS TALK TOPICS WHAT YOU’LL LEAVE WITH

Confidently deploy 64TB NTFS volumes with Windows 8 Attend session #446 for more information

Microsoft ApplicationsISV or Storage Vendor Applications One Storage Management Interface Vendor array SMI-S compliant array Storag e Spaces Storage Spaces compatible JBOD

Windows Storage Management API (PowerShell and WMI) Pass-through API for extensibility (WMI) Third-party application System Center File Server Administration Console SMI-S Hardware Provider Storage Management Provider Interface (+ pass-through for extensibility enabling all of SMI-S and vendor proprietary extensions; Transport = WMI) Proprietary Transport and/or Protocol SMP: Universal SMI-S Service (Proxy) SMP: Universal SMI-S Service (Proxy) SMP: 3 rd Party Providers SMP: Storage Spaces Storage Array / RAID Controller Storage Array / RAID Controller Storage Array / RAID Controller Storage Array / RAID Controller Storage Array / RAID Controller Storage Array / RAID Controller

Windows virtualized storage Windows Application Servers or Windows File Servers Physical or virtualized deployments Physical storage (Shared) SAS or SATA File Server Administration Console Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes Failover Clustering SMB2 Multichannel NFSWindows Storage Mgmt. Integrated with other Windows 8 capabilities NTFS SMB2 Direct Storage Pool Storag e Spaces Storage Pool Storag e Spaces Storage Pool Storag e Spaces

SATA or SAS Shared SAS

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ComponentsQuantit y Dell ® PowerEdge ® T710 2x Intel ® Xeon ® X5570, 48GB memory, 5x LSI ® e SAS HBA 1 Intel ® X25-M 160GB SSD 40

Spacefor CSV.\VMLibrary ComponentsQuantit y Supermicro ® 2U server 2x Intel ® Xeon ® X5570, 12GB memory, LSI e SAS HBA 2 Supermicro ® 4U JBOD 1 Seagate ® 2TB 3.5” near-line SAS HDDs 45 Spacefor Finance Spacefor VHDStore

External Storage Array Virtual Disk Actual data transfer Offload Read Token Offload Write with Token Receive Result Token

Efficient data transfer within & across storage arrays

DELLEQ- ODX1 DELLEQ- ODX2 \\SFSDemo2\G \\SFSDemo2\H VHD

Safely maximize utilization with thinly provisioned virtual disks

VM Virtual Disk Or Storage Space

High optimization savings State of the art chunking and compression Typical savings by workload Transparent to primary server workload Minimal IO impact through scheduled and selective optimization Minimal server impact through low resource use Reliability and data integrity Built-in insurance against natural risk of data reduction Data integrity validation on all data and metadata Redundancy for metadata and popular chunks Storage & network optimization Integration with BranchCache for faster file download times and reduced bandwidth consumption over WAN

SAC-443T – Business and partnering opportunities: Windows Server 8 continuous availability SAC-444T – Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-node with remote file storage SAC-446T – Designing systems for continuous availability and scalability SAC-449T – Building continuously available file server NAS appliances SAC-450T – Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-node with block storage SAC-451T – Building continuously available systems with Hyper-V RELATED SESSIONS