Windows Server "8" Beta just became available and it includes a lot of new features in File and Storage Services. The Windows Server blog just released a post detailing a lot of the new File Server capabilities and scenarios included in the new release.
Here's an outline of the post:
- Background
- Enabling server application storage on file shares
- Continuous availability
- Performance
- Scalability
- Data protection
- Features overview
- SMB Transparent Failover
- SMB Multichannel
- SMB Direct
- SMB Scale-Out
- VSS for SMB File Shares
- SMB-specific Windows PowerShell cmdlets
- SMB Performance Counters
- Performance
- Deployment modes
- Single-node File Server
- Dual-node File Server
- Multi-node File Server
- Conclusion
We encourage you to visit the Windows Server Blog right now and read all the details. The post is at
http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/03/15/windows-server-8-taking-server-application-storage-to-windows-file-shares.aspx