2

ALWAYS ON,ALWAYS UP SERVICES

CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES ON LESS EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

Application storage support

through SMB 3.0

Server Message Block (SMB)

DirectData Deduplication

Storage Spaces

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND MORE CHOICE THROUGH INDUSTRY INNOVATION

Virtual Fibre Channel

for Hyper-V

Windows Storage ServerWindows Cluster in a Box

Offloaded Data Transfers

(ODX)

SMB Transparent Failover

SMB MultichannelCluster-Aware

Updating (CAU)

File system enhancements Online backup

SIMPLIFIED MANAGEABILITY

Unified storage

management

Management options

3

High availability with iSCSI and

NFS

• Virtualization of storage with Storage Pools and Storage Spaces

• Storage resilience and availability with commodity hardware

• Resiliency and data redundancy throughn-way mirroring (clustered or unclustered) or parity mode (unclustered)

• Utilization optimized through thin and trim provisioning and enclosure awareness

• Integration with other Windows Server 2012 capabilities

• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial AT Attachment (SATA) interconnects

Windows

Virtualized

Storage

Windows Application Server or File Server

Physical or

virtualized

deployments

Physical

Storage

(Shared) SAS or SATA

Integrated

with other

Windows

Server 2012

capabilities

Storage PoolStorage Pool

File Server Administration

ConsoleHyper-V

Cluster Shared Volume

Failover Clustering

SMB Multichannel

NFS Windows Storage Mgmt.

NTFS SMB Direct

4

Storage Space Storage Space Storage Space

ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES ON LESS

EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

5

VHD Library

Software Deployment Share

General File Share

User Home Folder (My Docs)

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

Average savings with Data Deduplication by workload type

ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES ON LESS

EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

Maximize capacity by removing

duplicate data

• 2:1 with file shares, 20:1 with virtual

storage

• Less data to back up, archive, and

migrate

Increased scale and performance

• Low CPU and memory impact

• Configurable compression schedule

• Transparent to primary server workload

Improved reliability and integrity

• Redundant metadata and critical data

• Checksums and integrity checks

• Increase availability through redundancy

Faster file download times with

BranchCache

Source: “Microsoft Internal Testing"

• Highly available, shared data store for SQL Server databases and Hyper-V workloads

• Increased flexibility, and easier provisioning and management

• Ability to take advantage of existing network infrastructure

• No application downtime for planned maintenance or unplanned failures with failover clustering

• Highly available scale-out file server

• Built-in encryption support

File Server

Cluster

Cluster Shared Volumes

Single File System Namespace

SMB

Single Logical Server \\Foo\Share

RAID Array

RAID Array

RAID Array

SAN

6

Windows

Virtualized

Storage

Physical

Storage

Storage PoolStorage Pool

Storage Space Storage Space Storage Space

ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES ON LESS

EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

Hyper-V ClusterMicrosoft

SQL Server

SMBclient

SMBserver

Filecopy

NIC NIC

NIC NIC

Filecopy

• Automatic detection and use of multiple network connections between SMB client and server

• Helps server applications be resilient to network failure

• Transparent Failover with recovery of network failure if another connection is unavailable

• Improved throughput

• Bandwidth aggregation through NIC Teaming

• Multiple nodes/CPUs for network processing with RSS-capable network adapters

• Automatic configuration with very little administrative overhead

CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

7

Win

do

ws

Serv

er

file

serv

er

clust

er

\\foo1\share1 \\foo2\share1

\\foo\share• High-performance, continually available

fileshares for business critical applications

• Failover transparent to server applications with zero downtime and with only a small I/O delay

• Support for planned moves, load balancing, operating system restart, unplanned failures, and client redirection (scale-out only)

• Resilient for file and directory operations

• All servers involved should have Windows Server 2012

CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

8

Windows Server Cluster

Current Workload

Third-party plug-in for updates

U

• Reduces server downtime and user disruption by orchestration of cluster node updates

• Maintains service availability without impacting cluster quorum

• Detects required updates and moves workloads off nodes for updates

• Uses Windows Update Agent or extensible plug-in

CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

9

10

ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES

CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE, MORE

CHOICESIMPLIFIED MANAGEABILITY

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