IFS Plugfest 28 is coming – sign up now
Hiya folks, Ned here again. Our friends on Microsoft File System Filter team asked that we share some upcoming Plugfest info with you. Have a gander: ————————————————————————— We are pleased to inform...
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Offline Files and Continuous Availability: the monstrous union you should not...
Hi all, Ned here again with a quick chat about mixing Continuous Availability and Offline Files. As you know, we have several public docs recommending against combining CA and Client Side Caching (aka...
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Work Folders for Android – Released
We are happy to announce that an Android app for Work Folders has been released into the Google PlayStore® and is available as a free download. Work Folders for Android app in the Google PlayStore...
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Deploy an entire Windows Server 2016 Software Defined Storage lab in minutes
Heya folks, Ned here again. Superstar Microsoft PFE Jaromir Kaspar recently posted a Windows Server 2016 lab creation tool on CodePlex and I highly recommend it. Download the Windows Server 2016 ISO...
View Article(Cross post) Industry Collaborates on Standards to Tackle Management...
Hi folks, Ned here again with some words from our MS colleagues in private cloud management and Mohan Kumar at Intel: Private and hybrid cloud datacenters with software defined infrastructure...
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SMB Transparent Failover – making file shares continuously available
Note: this post originally appeared on https://aka.ms/clausjor by Claus Joergensen. SMB Transparent Failover is one of the key features in the feature set introduced in Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0....
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VSS for SMB File Shares
Note: this post originally appeared on https://aka.ms/clausjor by Claus Joergensen. In the next generation of Windows Server, Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V introduces support for storing virtual machine...
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A developer’s view on VSS for SMB File Shares
Note: this post originally appeared on https://aka.ms/clausjor by Claus Joergensen. VSS for SMB File Shares is an extension to the existing VSS infrastructure which consists of four parts: In this post...
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Storage Spaces Direct
Note: this post originally appeared on https://aka.ms/clausjor by Claus Joergensen. Storage Spaces Direct enables service providers and enterprises to use industry standard servers with local storage...
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Microsoft and Intel showcase Storage Spaces Direct with NVM Express at IDF ’15
Note: this post originally appeared on https://aka.ms/clausjor by Claus Joergensen. This week I am at Intel Developer Forum 2015 in San Francisco, where we are showing a performance demo of Storage...
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Storage Spaces Direct – Under the hood with the Software Storage Bus
Note: this post originally appeared on https://aka.ms/clausjor by Claus Joergensen. Hello, Claus here again, this time at 30,000 feet on a plane going back to Denmark for my dad’s 80th birthday. I...
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Storage Spaces Direct in Technical Preview 4
Note: this post originally appeared on https://aka.ms/clausjor by Claus Joergensen. Hello, Claus here again. This time we are going to take a look at a couple of the key enhancements to Storage Spaces...
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Hardware options for evaluating Storage Spaces Direct in Technical Preview 4
Note: this post originally appeared on https://aka.ms/clausjor by Claus Joergensen. Hello, Claus here again. Right now I am at terminal B9 at Copenhagen Airport starting my trip back to the United...
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Work Folders for Android – Released
We are happy to announce that an Android app for Work Folders has been released into the Google PlayStore® and is available as a free download. Work Folders for Android app in the Google PlayStore...
View ArticleQuick Survey: Your plans for WS 2016 block replication and Azure
Heya folks, Ned here again with a quick (only 4 questions) survey on how you plan to use block replication, Storage Replica, and Azure in the coming months after RTM of Windows Server 2016. Any...
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Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2016
Since we introduced Data Deduplication (“Dedup” for short) in Windows Server 2012, the Dedup team has been hard at work improving this feature and our updates in Windows Server 2016 are no exception....
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Deploy an entire Windows Server 2016 Software Defined Storage lab in minutes
Heya folks, Ned here again. Superstar Microsoft PFE Jaromir Kaspar recently posted a Windows Server 2016 lab creation tool on CodePlex and I highly recommend it. Download the Windows Server 2016 ISO...
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Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2016
Since we introduced Data Deduplication (“Dedup” for short) in Windows Server 2012, the Dedup team has been hard at work improving this feature and our updates in Windows Server 2016 are no exception....
View ArticleConfiguring Nano Server and Dedup
Data Deduplication is a feature of Windows Server since Windows Server 2012 that can reduce the on-disk footprint of your data by finding and removing duplication within a volume without compromising...
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DISKSPD now on GitHub, and the mysterious VMFLEET released
Hi folks, Ned here again with a brief announcement: DISKSPD, the Microsoft-built and recommended tool for testing and measuring your storage performance, is now available on GitHub under an MIT...
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