5. JBODs (just a bunch of disks)

6. See www.windowsservercatalog.com under the “Storage Spaces” Category

8. http://www.raidinc.com/ http://www.dataonstorage.com/ http://www.fujitsu.com/ft s/ http://www.quantaqct.com/ http://www.supermicro.com/

10. SAS JBOD SSD SAS JBOD SSD SAS JBOD SSD SAS JBOD SSD SAS JBOD SSD SAS JBOD SSD SAS HBA 8KB random reads from a mirrored space (disk) ~600,000 IOPS 8KB random reads from cache (RAM) ~1,000,000 IOPS 32KB random reads from a mirrored space (disk) ~500,000 IOPS ~16.5 GBytes/sec

11. NICThroughput 1Gb Ethernet~0.1 GB/sec 10Gb Ethernet~1.1 GB/sec 40Gb Ethernet~4.5 GB/sec 32Gb InfiniBand (QDR)~3.8 GB/sec 54Gb InfiniBand (FDR)~6.5 GB/sec HBAThroughput 3Gb SAS x4~1.1 GB/sec 6Gb SAS x4~2.2 GB/sec 4Gb FC~0.4 GB/sec 8Gb FC~0.8 GB/sec 16Gb FC~1.5 GB/sec Bus SlotThroughput PCIe Gen2 x4~1.7 GB/sec PCIe Gen2 x8~3.4 GB/sec PCIe Gen2 x16~6.8 GB/sec PCIe Gen3 x4~3.3 GB/sec PCIe Gen3 x8~6.7 GB/sec PCIe Gen3 x16~13.5 GB/sec MemoryThroughput DDR2-400 (PC2-3200)~3.4 GB/sec DDR2-667 (PC2-5300)~5.7 GB/sec DDR2-1066 (PC2-8500)~9.1 GB/sec DDR3-800 (PC3-6400)~6.8 GB/sec DDR3-1333 (PC3-10600)~11.4 GB/sec DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800)~13.7 GB/sec DDR3-2133 (PC3-17000)~18.3 GB/sec

12. DEMO >1 million IOps in a VM

13. DEMO Tiered Storage

14. DEMO Write-Back Caching

16. VHDX can align to 512, 512e and 4096 byte disks Dynamic/Differencing VHDXs grow 10x faster than VHD 40% faster 64k writes to a fully expanded VHDX VHDX online resize: Resize-VHD -path C:\temp\test.vhdx -ToMinimumSize

17. Shared VHDX (vSAS) for Fixed and Dynamic disks Storage QoS per VHD Soft minimums, hard maximums CSV re-balancing RDMA flooding 8KB IOps increased from: 300,000 IOps per interface to 450,000

20. Appendix

21. # Find all eligible disks $disks = Get-PhysicalDisk |? {$_.CanPool -eq $true} # Looking at the MediaType for the PhysicalDisks $disks | Select FriendlyName, Manufacturer, Model, MediaType # Changing the MediaType to SSD Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName PhysicalDisk1 -MediaType SSD # Changing the MediaType to HDD Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName PhysicalDisk1 -MediaType HDD

22. # Create a new Storage Pool New-StoragePool -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName *Spaces* -FriendlyName TieredPool -PhysicalDisks $disks

23. # Define the Pool Storage Tiers $ssd_tier = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool -FriendlyName SSD_Tier -MediaType SSD $hdd_tier = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool -FriendlyName HDD_Tier -MediaType HDD

24. # Creation of a Tiered Storage Space with a Write-Back Cache $vd1 = New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool - FriendlyName TieredSpace –StorageTiers @($ssd_tier, $hdd_tier) -StorageTierSizes @(500GB,10TB) - ResiliencySettingName Mirror -WriteCacheSize 5GB

25. # Assign a File to SSD Tier Set-FileStorageTier -FilePath E:\MarketingPoolVMParent.vhdx – DesiredStorageTier ($vd1 | Get-StorageTier -MediaType SSD) # Assign a File to HDD Tier Set-FileStorageTier -FilePath E:\Archive1.vhdx – DesiredStorageTier ($vd1 | Get-StorageTier -MediaType HDD)

26. # Get the list of assigned files, the tier, and the status for the Volume “E" Get-FileStorageTier -VolumeDriveLetter E # Get the tier and status of a specific file Get-FileStorageTier -FilePath E:\MarketingPoolVMParent.vhdx