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SOFS
8 articles
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Cisco UCS supports RoCE for Microsoft SMB Direct
As you may know we use SMB as the storage protocol for several Hyper-V deployments using Scale-Out File Server and Storage Spaces which adds a lot value to your Hyper-V deployments. To boost performance Microsoft is…
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Hyper-V over SMB: Set SMB Constrained Delegation via PowerShell
When you are having configured a Hyper-V over SMB configuration, which means the virtual machines are running on Hyper-V host and are stored on a SMB file share, and you try to manage the virtual machine…
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Configure CSV Cache in Windows Server 2012 R2
In Windows Server 2012 Microsoft introduced CSV Cache for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Scale-Out File Server Clusters. The CSV Block Cache is basically a RAM cache which allows you to cache read IOPS in the…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Private Cloud Virtualization and Storage Poster and Mini-Posters
Yesterday Microsoft released the Windows Server 2012 R2 Private Cloud Virtualization and Storage Poster and Mini-Posters. This includes overviews over Hyper-V, Failover Clustering, Scale-Out File Server, Storage Spaces and much more. These posters provide a visual…
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Violin Memory Scale-out Memory Platform with SMB 3.0 Integration
If you are looking at Storage vendors for Hyper-V you really need to have a look at a storage solutions with SMB 3.0 integration. Because the Hyper-V over SMB scenario will be the future. So until…
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Recommend Hotfixes and Updates for Hyper-V and Failover Clusters
I the last couple of releases I always posted the pages where you could get the list of Recommended Hotfixes and Updates for Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters and List of Hyper-V and Failover Cluster Hotfixes for…
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Manage SOFS Cluster and File Shares from Virtual Machine Manager
In the past months I did several blog posts about Hyper-V over SMB and Storage Spaces. In small environment management of such a Scale-Out File Server Cluster can be a simple thing because you don’t have…
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Hardware, Hosting, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, System Center, Virtualization, Windows ServerHyper-V over SMB: Scale-Out File Server and Storage Spaces
On some community pages my blog post started some discussions why you should use SMB 3.0 and why you should use Windows Server as a storage solution. Let me be clear here, you don’t need Windows…
