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Windows Server 2012 Storage Solutions: Vast Storage Capabilities
for Everyone
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV327

Windows Server 2012 File System Enhancements: Redefining

File Storage
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV315
Physical or
Virtualized Servers

File and Storage Manager ReFS & NTFS SMB v3 RDMA

Windows Server 2012
Capabilities
Failover Clustering & CSV v2 Hyper-V Storage Mgmt. PowerShell

Virtualized Resilient
Storage

Cost-efficient shared
SAS JBOD arrays
Customer Needs
Windows customers want a cost-effective platform that maximizes data availability, scales
efficiently to very large data sets across diverse workloads, and guarantees data integrity via
resiliency to corruption (regardless of software or hardware failures)

The Resilient File System (ReFS)

ReFS is a new file system targeting these customer needs while providing a foundation for
significant future innovations. Windows 8 customers can now deploy the most cost-effective
platform for available and scalable data access using cost-efficient storage, by utilizing an
integrated storage stack comprising ReFS and Storage Spaces.
Integrity
All metadata corruption is always detected. Optionally, user data corruption is
also detected.
ReFS utilizes Storage Spaces resiliency to auto-correct.

Scalability
ReFS efficiently scales to PB datasets comprising very large files.

Availability
ReFS maximizes data availability.
If corruption occurs and a redundant copy is unavailable, the non-corrupt
portions remain unaffected and online.

Architectural Evolution
Architecture enables efficient evolution for new storage devices and new
access patterns.
 VHDs

Deployable on cost-efficient
commodity hardware
Optional integrity guarantee for user data
Storage spaces provides resiliency against
media failure
Failover Clustering provides high availability for
File Server

Considerations
ReFS available only with Windows Server 2012
Can only be deployed as data volume
Does not guarantee the same level of
application compatibility as NTFS
 With ReFS, Scrubber verifies
With NTFS, Scrubber verifies all checksums on all copies and
Scrubber
copies can be read auto-corrects as needed

Data Data Data Data Data Data

Data Volume - NTFS Data Volume - ReFS
Copy0 Copy1 Copy2 Copy0 Copy1 Copy2

On media failure, NTFS will get Checksum is inspected on all

an alternate copy of the data copies of the data
If corruption detected, trigger
auto-correct and return a
healthy copy of the data
Modern NTFS Health Model & CHKDSK
NTFS supports volumes up to 256TB
Practical volume size is reduced due to potential volume unavailability with long
running CHKDSK
Improved detection and handling of corruptions in
NTFS

Change in the CHKDSK execution model

Online analysis and potentially offline repair phases.

Integration with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

File system health monitored through Action Center

and Server Manager
Possible Online Self- Online
Corruption
Healing Verification
Detected
NTFS detects a perceived NTFS attempts to rapidly NTFS will validate whether
anomaly in file system self-heal issue is transient or genuine
metadata Volume remains online Volume remains online

Online Identification & Precise & Rapid

Logging
If not self-healed, NTFS will
identify and log corrective
actions for later processing
User or Admin is notified
Volume remains online
Correction
The user or admin can take the
volume offline when convenient, and
outstanding logged corruptions are
rapidly corrected aka. spot fixed
With CSV, I/O is transparently paused
for rapid correction, then
automatically resumed
TIME REQUIRED TO FIX A SINGLE CORRUPTION - GOING FROM HOURS TO MERE SECONDS

400 376
Execution Time (minutes)

292
300

200
109
100
0.13 0.13 0.13
0
100 Million Files 200 Million Files 300 Million Files

Windows Server Windows Server 2012

Thin Provisioning, ODX and Data
Deduplication
Identification
Industry leadership for standards based thinly provisioned virtual disk
identification

Optimization
End-to-end transparency of file system allocation
Space reclamation occurs both real-time and on a scheduled basis
Scheduled slab consolidation ensures smallest storage footprint

Works automatically with Storage Spaces and

supported storage arrays
 Efficient and secure data movement between Windows systems
Full stack integration automatically attempts to leverage capability
when available

Traditional transfers have avoidable resource consumption when

(simply) moving data around
Consumes CPU cycles and Memory on hosts
Utilizes both storage and network bandwidth
Performance always constrained by available network bandwidth
ODX transparently enables through Drag-and-Drop, Copy,
Powershell, Robocopy, etc
Supports local volumes, file shares, VHDs, from within VMs
Great for Hyper-V VM/VHD Provisioning, Data Mining, Hyper-V
Storage Migration
 DATA

Actual Data Transfer

Write
Read Data Results
Data

Virtual Virtual
Disk Traditional Disk
Storage Array
 Token

Offload Offload Write

Token Results
Read with Token

Virtual Actual Data Transfer Virtual

Disk Disk
Storage Array
w/ ODX Support
 Traditional
Storage Array
Storage Array
w/ ODX
Support
 Creation of a 10 GB
Fixed Disk
~3 Minutes
200
150
100
Time
50
0 (seconds)
<1 Second!
Average ODX
Desktop
Secure Offload data transfer
Fixed VHD/VHDX Creation
Dynamic VHD/VHDX Expansion
VHD/VHDX Merge
Live Storage Migration

Creation of a 10 GB
Fixed Disk
200
150
100
Time
50
0 (seconds)
Average ODX
Desktop
Finds and removes duplication within data without
compromising its fidelity or integrity

Works transparently in the background

Typical savings based on usage:

VHD Library

Software Deployment Share

General File Share

User Home Folder (MyDocs)

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

DEDUPLICATION SAVINGS
Windows Server 2012: Storage
https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/windows-server-2012-
storage

How to setup iSCSI on Windows Server 2008 [11 mins]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/Video/ff710316

Windows Server 8 - Storage changes - Interview with Thomas Pfenning

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Edge-Byte-Windows-Server-8-
Storage-changes-Interview-with-Thomas-Pfenning

Windows Server 2012 Storage Evolved For Hyper-V

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/windows-server-2012-
storage-evolved-for-hyper-v.aspx

Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (03a): Storage Architecture, Part 1

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/windows-server-2012-jump-
start-03-a-storage-architecture-part-1.aspx

Windows Server 2012 Jump Start (03b): Storage Architecture, Part 2

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/windows-server-2012-jump-
start-03-b-storage-architecture-part-2.aspx
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