1 1 Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Technical Scenarios and Solutions Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage - Technical Scenarios and Solutions 1 title of document 2 2 Table of contents Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5 SAN-style solutions built on the Microsoft Stack ............................................................................................ 9 Price Point and Performance Comparison ........................................................................................................ 11 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 13 Hybrid Storage Pools and Tiered Storage ......................................................................................................... 15 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Application Storage ....................................................................................................................................................... 16 Support for SMB 3 .......................................................................................................................................................... 16 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 16 Continuous Availability Shares using SMB-Direct ....................................................................................................... 17 SMB Encryption and VSS Support ..................................................................................................................................... 18 Scale-Out File Servers ............................................................................................................................................................. 18 When to use Scale-Out File Server Shares ..................................................................................................................... 18 Data Deduplication ........................................................................................................................................................ 20 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 20 Network Fault Tolerance with SMB Multichannel ......................................................................................... 21 Challenge ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 21 SMB Direct (RDMA) ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 22 Online VHDX Resize ...................................................................................................................................................... 26 Storage QoS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Challenge ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 26 Customer Benefits of Online VHDX Resize and Storage QoS ................................................................................ 26 Hyper-V Live Storage ........................................................................................................................................................... 27 Migration ................................................................................................................................................................................ 27 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage - Technical Scenarios and Solutions 2 title of document 3 3 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 27 SM-API .................................................................................................................................................................................. 30 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 30 Improved Storage Management UI with Server Manager ...................................................................................... 32 Protecting File Systems and Directories ............................................................................................................. 34 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 34 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 34 Windows Azure Backup ............................................................................................................................................... 35 Target Segments ...................................................................................................................................................................... 36 System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM) ........................................................................ 36 System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Management: Enterprise Ready ........................................................ 38 Hyper-V Replica ............................................................................................................................................................... 39 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 39 Solution ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 39 Failover Cluster Support ........................................................................................................................................................ 40 Hyper-V Replica Architecture .............................................................................................................................................. 40 Hyper-V Recovery Manager ...................................................................................................................................... 42 Challenges ................................................................................................................................................................................... 42 Solution .......................................................................................................................................................................................