2. 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

3. 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

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

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

9. 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

13. 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

14. SATA or SAS Shared SAS

15. Attend session #446 for more information

17. ComponentsQuantit y Dell ® PowerEdge ® T710 2x Intel ® Xeon ® X5570, 48GB memory, 5x LSI ® 9205-8e SAS HBA 1 Intel ® X25-M 160GB SSD 40

19. Spacefor CSV.\VMLibrary ComponentsQuantit y Supermicro ® 2U server 2x Intel ® Xeon ® X5570, 12GB memory, LSI 9200-8e SAS HBA 2 Supermicro ® 4U JBOD 1 Seagate ® 2TB 3.5” near-line SAS HDDs 45 Spacefor Finance Spacefor VHDStore

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

21. Efficient data transfer within & across storage arrays

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

26. Safely maximize utilization with thinly provisioned virtual disks

27. VM Virtual Disk Or Storage Space

28. 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

33. 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