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    • OksanaO

      Testing the Hypothesis: Microsoft S2D Doubled Write Traffic

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    • OksanaO

      Do Windows Server 2019 storage options really hit the spot? Watch StarWind video

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    • mlnewsM

      Microsoft Removes Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server 2016

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      ObsolesceO

      @r3dpand4 said in Microsoft Removes Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server 2016:

      @tim_g said in Microsoft Removes Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server 2016:

      @scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Removes Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server 2016:

      @darek-hamann said in Microsoft Removes Storage Spaces Direct from Windows Server 2016:

      The implementation of an Azure Stack would be something to get our heads around for the time being.

      Hopefully it is better than the actual Azure system!

      It is Azure, same thing, but you have a physical node on-prem. You pay for the hardware, and you get Azure a little cheaper, but it's fully managed by them.

      It's really only for remote places with bad bandwidth imho.

      Think like, needing cloud from an 18-wheeler in a remote location.

      This sounds like a crappy version of the AWS Snowball

      Completely different.

      This is like making your portion of the AWS cloud in-house, including the entire AWS stack.

      Again, not too useful unless you are trying to bring the cloud to a remote location to avoid excessive latency or to somewhere the internet doesn't exist... like linking it to a satellite connection during a disaster or something.

      There are other real uses, but that would be for bigger enterprises... for most SMBs, Azure Stack would never be a consideration.

    • DustinB3403D

      Port - Storage Spaces Direct (S2D): SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) needed only on HBA?

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      @tim_g said in Port - Storage Spaces Direct (S2D): SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) needed only on HBA?:

      @dashrender

      RAID would be provided by SS.

      He would need a controller that is pass-through.

      Technically S2D is designed to be used by DAS systems (or JBODs if you like to make Scott facepalm), and not internal server storage... even though it works just fine.

      There's no problem to use RAID controller instead of a basic HBA as long as you a) patch the registry (see my link below) or use special "filter" driver to report "RAID" bus (sic!) as SATA or SAS, and b) disable write-back cache on BOTH controller and disk itself, so all writes become atomic.

      Storage Spaces Direct: Enabling S2D work with unsupported device types (BusType = NVMe, RAID, Fibre Channel). Part 1: Registry hack

      https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/resolving-enable-clusters2d-bus-type-support-issue-on-some-storage-controllers

      P.S. It's a BAD idea to use anything like that in production because as long as Microsoft support will discover your S2D configuration isn't supported they will pull out and walk away with a grin face.

    • mlnewsM

      Windows Storage Spaces Direct

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      Overview

      Storage Spaces Direct seamlessly integrates with the features you know today that make up the Windows Server software defined storage stack, including Scale-Out File Server, Clustered Shared Volume File System (CSVFS), Storage Spaces and Failover Clustering. Figure 4 below illustrates the “Storage Spaces Direct” stack:

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