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Volodymyr Perishko
  • Volodymyr Perishko
  • December 9, 2024

Deploying S2D Cluster in Microsoft Azure with a Highly Available Active Directory Domain

Follow a step-by-step guide to deploying a Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) cluster using Azure Resource Manager templates.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • September 26, 2024

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D): Is there any Data Locality?

Running your VMs on the right node in a Microsoft S2D cluster could be the key to unlocking better performance.
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Volodymyr Perishko
  • Volodymyr Perishko
  • February 14, 2024

Can SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance run on S2D twice as fast as SQL Server Availability Groups on Storage Spaces? Part 1: Studying AG performance

Some time ago, I published here comparison of SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) and SQL Server Availability Group (AG) performance while having them run on top of StarWind Virtual SAN (https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/hyper-v/can-sql-server-failover-cluster-instance-run-twice-fast-sql-server-basic-availability-groups-2-node-cluster-part-2-studying-fci-performance/). Today, I measure SQL Server AG performance on Storage Spaces. The next part sheds light on SQL Server FCI performance on S2D. Can I squeeze two times more TPM out of SQL Server FCI on S2D than SQL Server AG can provide on Storage Spaces?
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • July 5, 2018

Why you should consider Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2019

For the first time, Microsoft made an online Windows Server Summit at June 26th 2019. Microsoft talked about hybrid cloud, security, cloud native application and hyperconverged solution. Some of the new features which are coming with Windows Server 2019 were unleashed. In this topic, I’d like to summary what are the new features and why you should consider Storage Spaces Direct for a new installation or to update your existing cluster.
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Taras Shved
  • Taras Shved
  • February 10, 2017

Storage Spaces Direct: Enabling S2D work with unsupported device types (BusType = NVMe, RAID, Fibre Channel)

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is a new storage feature introduced in Windows Server 2016 Datacenter, which significantly extends the Software-Defined Storage stack in Windows Server product family and allows users building highly available storage systems using directly attached drives. Storage Spaces Direct, or S2D, simplifies the deployment and management of Software-Defined Storage systems and allows using more disk devices classes like SATA and NVMe drives. Previously, it was not possible to use these types of storage with clustered Storage Spaces with shared disks. Storage Spaces Direct can use drives that are locally attached to nodes in a cluster or disks that are attached to nodes using enclosure. It aggregates all the disks into a single Storage Pool and enables the creation of virtual disks on top.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • August 19, 2016

Musings on Windows Server Converged Networking & Storage

Too many people still perceive Windows Server as “just” an operating system (OS). It’s so much more. It’s an OS, a hypervisor, a storage platform with a highly capable networking stack. Both virtualization and cloud computing are driving the convergence of all the above these roles forward fast, with intent and purpose. We’ll position the technologies & designs that convergence requires and look at the implications of these for a better overall understanding of this trend.
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Charbel Nemnom
  • Charbel Nemnom
  • August 18, 2016

How to Deploy and Manage Storage Spaces Direct Cluster using SCVMM 2016?

With the release of Windows Server 2016, Microsoft is introducing Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), which enables building highly available Software-Defined Storage systems with local attached storage. This storage can be leveraged by VMs running on the same cluster (in hyper-converged mode) or the storage can be presented as a File Share (in disaggregated mode). The hyper-converged deployment scenario has the Hyper-V (compute) and Storage Spaces Direct (storage) components on the same cluster. Virtual machine’s files are stored on local CSVs. Once Storage Spaces Direct is configured and the CSV volumes are available, configuring and provisioning Hyper-V is the same process and uses the same tools that you would use with any other Hyper-V deployment on a failover cluster.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • August 16, 2016

Why moving from Windows Server 2012 R2 to 2016 for Hyper-V

Windows Server 2016 will be released the next month said Microsoft the last month. Windows Server 2016 brings a lot of new features compared to the last Windows Server version for Hyper-V, networking and storage. In this topic I will try to convince you to move from prior Windows Server edition to Windows Server 2016 with eight reasons.
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Oksana Zybinskaya
  • Oksana Zybinskaya
  • July 18, 2016

Windows Server-as-a-service: Microsoft describes the future of Server 2016

Microsoft published details of how Windows Server 2016 will be released and maintained, which includes a “Windows as a service” model of frequent operating system updates. Windows Server 2016 will be launched at the Ignite conference (September 26 to 30 in Atlanta, Georgia); there will be three editions: Datacenter, Standard and Essentials.
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