Week 13: File and Storage Services

Management
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File & Storage Services Management

Integrated management experience
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File & Storage Services

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Managing Windows Server Storage

Managing Windows Server 2012 “Volumes”, “Disks” & “Storage Pools”

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Managing Windows Server Storage

Managing Windows Server 2012 “Volumes”, “Disks”, “Storage Pools”,

“Shares” & “iSCSI”
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File & Storage Services Management

Easy to find areas of Filter to find information PowerShell & WMI

management “at a glance” Storage
Pivot between related Cluster
activities File Server

Wizards guide tasks Volumes

Shares

Quota
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Unified Management Concepts

Storage

Virtual Disks

Storage Pools

Physical Disks
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Unified management of storage

Storage
Spaces
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Task based operations

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Diagnosis & investigation

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Manage File Server Settings

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Deduplication Services Management

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Deduplication benefits
High Optimization Savings • State of the art chunking and compression
• Typical savings by workload:
VHD Library

Software Deployment Share

General File Share

User Home Folder (MyDocs)

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Transparent to Primary Server • Minimal IO impact through scheduled and selective

Workload optimization
• Minimal Server impact through low resource use

Reliability and Data Integrity • Built-in insurance against natural risk of data reduction
• Data Integrity validation on all data and metadata
• Redundancy for metadata and popular chunks

Storage AND Network • Integration with BranchCache for faster file download times and
Optimization reduced bandwidth consumption over WAN
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Target Workloads

VHD Library

Software
Trget Workloads
Deployment

File shares

Home Folder
(MyDocs)
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System overview
Management
• Server Manager
• PowerShell
• WMI
Windows Server
Management Operations Windows volumes

D:\

E:\

F:\
…… Branch Office
Deduplication scope is a Volume

Cluster-aware:
BranchCache enabled
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Evaluating Deduplication
Evaluate: (DDPPEval.exe) \Windows\System32

• Runs on Win 7 or later systems

• Determine expected savings

• Local drives & remote files shares

Data Deduplication Savings Evaluation Tool
Evaluated folder: E:\Test
Processed files: 34
Processed files size: 12.03MB
Optimized files size: 4.02MB
Space savings: 8.01MB
Space savings percent: 66
Optimized files size (no compression): 11.47MB
Space savings (no compression): 571.53KB
Space savings percent (no compression): 4
Files with duplication: 2
Files excluded by error: 0
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Managing Deduplication
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Managing Deduplication