TechDays Online UK - SCVMM Storage Management and SoFS
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Learn how to build a lab to exercise the Storage Management features of SCVMM, Leveraging Windows 2012 R2 Scale Out File Server, and Storage Spaces
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TechDays Online UK - SCVMM Storage Management and SoFS
- 1. SC Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 Storage Management / SoFS Damian Flynn Infrastructure Architect / MVP
- 2. @damian_flynn www.DamianFlynn.com www.petri.co.il/author/damian-flynn Damian Flynn is the Infrastructure Architect. His current focus is on Software Defined Networks (SDN) with “Windows Azure Pack”, with perspective on Orchestration of repeatable processes in “Dev/Ops” scenarios. He has a keen interest in Cloud Computing from both a business strategy and technical viewpoint and presents sessions on building and managing Private/Hybrid Clouds at a number of industry events. Damian authored the Cloud chapters on two books, is active in many MS Programs, blogs at www.damianflynn.com & www.petri.co.il, tweets at @damian_flynn, and has published a number of white papers and technical articles. info@DamianFlynn.com
- 4. Windows Storage Management API (Windows PowerShell and WMI) Vendor-provided SMI-S provider (CIMXML or WMI) Storage Array Pass-through API for extensibility (WMI) Vendor-provided transport and/or protocol Storage Array Just Bunch Of Disk JBOD
- 6. • Virtual Fibre Channel support • Management of zones • Leverage of the Windows Server 2012 ODX capability • Shared VHDX support • Integration of storage differencing disks optimizations. • Storage spaces File • Provision Scale-Out File Server cluster (Inc. Bare Metal)
- 8. • Select Drive to host the Shared VHDX files • Using PowerShell • Install-WindowsFeature Failover-Clustering • There is no need to create a cluster from this host. • Run • FLTMC.EXE attach svhdxflt D: • where D: is the drive letter that you selected for VHDXs • Enable your Shared VHDX
- 9. Q&A
Editor's Notes
- Virtual Fibre Channel support: Support management of Fibre Channel fabrics and the automated provisioning of virtual machines with connectivity to storage over Fibre Channels fabrics. For more information about Virtual Fibre Channel, see Managing Virtual Fibre Channel in VMM.Management of zonesLeverage of the Windows Server 2012 Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) capability: Fast file copy in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager greatly improves the time performance of file transfers and virtual machine deployments, mostly by leveraging the Windows ODX feature. For more information about fast file copy, see Creating and Deploying Virtual Machines Overview.Shared VHDX support: Support for shared VHDX storage in a service tier. This supports guest clustering, which allows users to deploy in-guest high availability applications. This also can be used for SQL failover clustering and high availability VMM with shared VHDX storage to provide a highly available SQL farm. For more information, see How to Create a Guest Cluster by Using a Service Template in VMM.Provision Scale-Out File Server cluster from bare metal computers. Using physical computer profiles, you can provision bare-metal computers to be Scale-Out File Servers, and chose to cluster the provisioned computers into a Scale-Out File Server cluster. You can use a single step to accomplish both, provisioning and clustering. For more information, see How to Create a Host or a Physical Computer Profile to Provision a Hyper-V Host in VMM and How to Create a Scale-Out File Server in VMM.Integration of storage with differencing disks optimizations. Differencing disks reduce storage requirements by allowing a large percentage of disk data to be shared among multiple virtual disks, optimizing storage costs.Storage spaces File: File server management encompasses the full lifecycle of a file server from provisioning to steady-state management which frees a cloud administrator from having to build or integrate different tools for storage management. Management of the file server supports the Windows Server 2012 R2 integrated experience for storage, computing, and networking, from initial provisioning to on-going monitoring. This integrated experience incorporates management at scale across multiple racks and thousands of managed devices.
- Virtual Fibre Channel support: Support management of Fibre Channel fabrics and the automated provisioning of virtual machines with connectivity to storage over Fibre Channels fabrics. For more information about Virtual Fibre Channel, see Managing Virtual Fibre Channel in VMM.Management of zonesLeverage of the Windows Server 2012 Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) capability: Fast file copy in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager greatly improves the time performance of file transfers and virtual machine deployments, mostly by leveraging the Windows ODX feature. For more information about fast file copy, see Creating and Deploying Virtual Machines Overview.Shared VHDX support: Support for shared VHDX storage in a service tier. This supports guest clustering, which allows users to deploy in-guest high availability applications. This also can be used for SQL failover clustering and high availability VMM with shared VHDX storage to provide a highly available SQL farm. For more information, see How to Create a Guest Cluster by Using a Service Template in VMM.Provision Scale-Out File Server cluster from bare metal computers. Using physical computer profiles, you can provision bare-metal computers to be Scale-Out File Servers, and chose to cluster the provisioned computers into a Scale-Out File Server cluster. You can use a single step to accomplish both, provisioning and clustering. For more information, see How to Create a Host or a Physical Computer Profile to Provision a Hyper-V Host in VMM and How to Create a Scale-Out File Server in VMM.Integration of storage with differencing disks optimizations. Differencing disks reduce storage requirements by allowing a large percentage of disk data to be shared among multiple virtual disks, optimizing storage costs.Storage spaces File: File server management encompasses the full lifecycle of a file server from provisioning to steady-state management which frees a cloud administrator from having to build or integrate different tools for storage management. Management of the file server supports the Windows Server 2012 R2 integrated experience for storage, computing, and networking, from initial provisioning to on-going monitoring. This integrated experience incorporates management at scale across multiple racks and thousands of managed devices.