Window Storage Server 2012 R2

Great Storage Improvements with 2012!

CSVFS online CHKDSK

Cluster-Aware Updating

SMB3

Virtual Fibre

Channel

Hyper-V Replica

8,000 VMs

per Cluster

VM Prioritization

64-node clusters

Dedup

Scale-Out File Server

Storage Spaces

Offload Data

Transfer

VM Storage Migration

iSCSI Target Server

ReFS VHDX

SMI-S Storage Service

NTFS Trim / Unmap

NFS 4.1SM API

Windows Server 2012 & Windows Storage Server 2012

SMB3

Virtual Fibre Channel

Hyper-V Replica

8,000 VMs per Cluster

64-node clusters

Dedup

Scale-Out File Server

Offload Data Transfer

New Approach to Storage

StorageSpaces

Cost-Effective Business Critical Storage

File Based

Storage

High Performance SMB Protocol for SQL Server and Hyper-V Storage over Ethernet networks

Strategic shifts to reducing storage costs with Windows Server 2012 Software-Defined

Storage

New Storage Features in 2012 R2

Continuously Available

File and Block

Storage

• Synchronization: Work Folders and DFS-R• Failover Clustering with Hyper-V• Storage Spaces with SSD tiering and caching• New Storage Management APIs• End to end storage management with

SCVMM• Simple Setup and Configuration (OOBE)• Protocol Improvements: SMB 3.0 and iSCSI

Target

Software-Defined Storage Appliances

WSS 2012 R2 Workgroup vs. WSS 2012 R2 StandardWorkgroup Standard

Hardware

Maximum # CPU’s and VM rights 1 + 0 2 + 2Maximum Memory 32 GB Unlimited# Disks 6 Unlimited

Hardware RAID Yes Yes

Users

Concurrent SMB Connections 250 Unlimited# Users 50 Unlimited

Software Features

File sharing (SMB & NFS) Yes YesOnline Backup Yes YesDFS-Replication, Work Folders Yes YesFile Classification Infrastructure (FCI) Yes Yes File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) Yes YesDomain Join Yes YesShared block storage (iSCSI Target + Boot) Yes YesOEM Customizable Out of Box Experience Yes YesSpaces Yes YesDeduplication No YesBranchCache - Hosted Cache No YesVirtualization No Host + 2 VMClustering (including AD/DNS) No YesSimplified Cluster Setup No YesNetworking Infra (DHCP, DNS & WINS) No YesAD Roles including Domain Controller (RODC) No No

Differentiators:Key Workgroup Limits:• 50 Users• 250 SMB Connectiond• 1 Socket• 32GB RAM• 6 Disks, no external SAS

Premium Features In Standard:• Deduplication• Hosted BranchCache• Clustering• Virtualization Rights• Network infrastructure for a branch

office

WSS Features Removed:• Domain Controller, Certificate

Services, Federation Services, Rights Management

• Application Server, Network Policy Server, Terminal Services, WDS and Fax Server

R2Work Folders

Introducing Work Folders

Allow information workers to access their individual data

… that is centrally located on a traditional file server

… from all of their devices

… from wherever they are

… while remaining in compliance with policies

Work Folders Deployment

Data managementQuotasFile screensReportingClassificationRMS protection

Device management policyLimit access to registered devicesFile encryption / selective wipeRequire password / device lock

AuthenticationKerberos (Windows Auth)Digest (Windows Auth)ADFS (OAuth)

https://workfolders.contoso.com

SMB 3.0

IaaS Vision – SMB3 is a key component• Dramatically lowering the costs and

effort of delivering Private Clouds

• Disaggregated compute and storage• Independent manage and scale at each layer

• Industry standard servers, networking and storage• Inexpensive networks• Inexpensive shared JBOD storage

Scale-Out File Server ClustersStorage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency

Hyper-V Clusters

SMB3

Shared JBODStorage

System

Cen

ter

SMB3 – File Server Features• SMB Transparent Failover - Continuous availability• SMB Scale-Out – Active/active clusters with auto-rebalancing• SMB Multichannel – Network fault tolerance and throughput• SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) - Low latency, low CPU utilization• SMB Encryption – Security in flight, without IPSec or PKI• Directory Leasing – Coherent caching of file and folder metadata• VSS for SMB File Shares – Application-consistent backup/restore• SMB PowerShell and VMM Support – Manage and automate

More information

• Technet - SMB Overview• Blog – http://smb3.info

R2 Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)

Management Performance Reliability Scalability

DFSR in Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows PowerShellWMI v2

CloningCross-file RDC disable & staging tune

Database merge and auto-recoverRestore preserved

Support

ed L

imits

DFSR drill down

Cluster Shared Volumes in R2

Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2012 R2

Enables the Private Cloud

• Access to storage from any node despite physical storage connectivity

• Common namespace that is consistent across all servers

• Resilient and Reliable

Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2012 R2

Enhancements• Automatic distribution across servers• Scale out file server optimization

• Rebalancing of CSV ownership

• SMB improvements• Dedicated SMB instances for CSV traffic

• Storage feature integration• Dedupe, Tiering, ReFS, ….

• More• Virtual disk (storage pools)• CSV read cache

R2 Storage Spaces

Scott M. JohnsonSenior Program ManagerWindows Storage Server

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Storage Vision

• Dramatically lowering the costs and effort of delivering IaaS storage services

• Disaggregated compute + storage• Independent manage and scale at each layer

• Industry standard servers, networking and storage• Inexpensive networks• Inexpensive shared JBOD storage

Scale-Out File Server ClustersStorage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency

Hyper-V Clusters

SMB

Shared JBODStorage

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Familiar deployment modelTraditional storage

with FC/iSCSI storage arrayWindows file server

clusterwith storage spacesHyper-V

compute nodes

Hyper-V compute

nodes

FC/SAS disk shelfFC/SAS disk shelf

FC/SAS disk shelfStorage compute

Shared SAS JBODShared SAS JBODShared SAS JBOD

Storage compute

FC/iSCSI(Block)

SMB direct(File)

Windows file server cluster

(Industry Standard hardware)

EmbeddedCPUs and controllers

(proprietary hardware)

Private Cloud Storage

Storage space Storage space

Storage pool Storage pool

Scale out file server cluster

Block storag

e

Hyper V

Storage pool

SMB

Storage space

Disk resiliency with storage spacesSimple

• Data is striped across disks.

Mirror• Data mirrored to a duplicate disk.• Two and three-way mirroring.• Mirrored configuration with

clustering for workloads.

Parity• Data striped to all-but one of the

disks. The remaining disk contains a checksum bit enabling data to be generated for a failed disk.

• Parity with clustering for archives.

Hybrid storage pools & tiered storage

• SSDs and HDDs used as different tiers.

• Windows automatically tracks data temperature and moves them at sub-file level.

• Write-back cache improves performance for real-world workloads.

• Only hot regions of a file (VHD, database, etc.) need to move to SSDs, the cold regions can reside on HDDs.

• Ability to pin files to different tiers

Hybrid storage pool

SSDs HDDs

Hot dataCold data

Tiered space

R2 Data Deduplication

2012 R2 Data Deduplication

Transparently removes duplication, without changing access semantics.

Post-processing approach:Optimization jobs identify files.Chunking algorithm is applied to the files.Chunks are inserted into a chunk store and selectively compressed.Original files are replaced with reparse points.Remove primary data stream.

Efficiently store, transfer and back up fewer bits.

Use dedup for VDI storageScale-out File ServerHyper-V VDI

Cluster Shared Volumes

DedupSpaces-Based

VirtualizedStorage

VHD

VHD

SMB

Yes, CSV volumes are now supported

Optimization of open files

Improved optimization performance

Improved read/write performance

Resources

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WSS Blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/storageserver/

Deployment Guide

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj643303.aspx

WSS 2012 Datasheet

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/C/B/6CBC4092-2DEB-4FD6-81C1-D997DD1FD215/WSS08R2_Datasheet.pdf

OEM Training Zone http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/salesmarketing/Pages/oem-training-zone.aspx

WSS 2012 R2 Licensing

Windows Server 2012: OEM Licensing ||

Storage Server – Summary

Hero SKU:

How to buy: Preinstall, ROK - No retail WSS SKU available

Partner Opportunity: • Create cost-effective, continuously-available storage appliances

• Deployment services and Tech Support services for life of the product

• Sell additional Memory, HD capacity, storage management applications, Backup Cloud Services, etc.

• Selling highly available storage dense server solutions Selling Motion: OEM Server vendors , Appliance vendors, Reseller

community Resources: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj643303.aspx

Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard : Cont. Avail. Clustered Storage for File Serving and Application Storage

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STANDARD

Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Editions

Entry Level NAS Scale Up NAS CA NAS

Segments

Solu

tion

Cost

WORKGROUP

Simplified Offerings

Standard: available in DOEM and Embedded (2 VM/2Proc limits)

Standard Additional License (add 2VMs/2 Proc): available in DOEM and Embedded.

Workgroup: available in Embedded only

No Continuous Availability

Continuously Availability

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WSS 2012 R2 Workgroup vs. WSS 2012 R2 Standard

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Workgroup Standard

Hardware

Maximum # CPU’s and VM rights 1 + 0 2 + 2

Maximum Memory 32 GB Unlimited

# Disks 6 Unlimited

Hardware RAID Yes Yes

Users

Concurrent SMB Connections 250 Unlimited

# Users 50 Unlimited

Software Features

File sharing (SMB & NFS) Yes Yes

Online Backup Yes Yes

DFS-Replication Yes Yes

File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) Yes Yes

File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) Yes Yes

Domain Join Yes Yes

Shared block storage (iSCSI Target + Boot) Yes Yes

OEM Customizable Out of Box Experience Yes Yes

Spaces Yes Yes

Deduplication No Yes

BranchCache - Hosted Cache No Yes

Virtualization No Host + 2 VM

Clustering (including AD/DNS) No Yes

Simplified Cluster Setup No Yes

Networking Infra (DHCP, DNS & WINS) No Yes

AD Roles including Domain Controller (RODC) No No

Differentiators:Key Workgroup Limits:• 50 Users• 250 SMB Connectiond• 1 Socket• 32GB RAM• 6 Disks, no external SAS

Premium Features In Standard:• Deduplication• Hosted BranchCache• Clustering• Virtualization Rights• Network infrastructure for a

branch office

WSS Features Removed:• Domain Controller, Certificate

Services, Federation Services, Rights Management

• Application Server, Network Policy Server, Terminal Services, WDS and Fax Server

Note: Unless specifically mentioned all limits are technical limits

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2 OS Editions (Workgroup and Standard)

19 Full Edition Language DVDs and Language PacksEnglish, German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Chinese-Hong Kong, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Czech

8 Evaluation DVDs available on the download centerChinese Simplified, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish

Editions and Offerings Workgroup Edition Standard Edition

OEM Embedded Direct    OEM Embedded Indirect    OEM Royalty (NEW)    MSDN    TechNet  MPN    MAP  

Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Editions

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Windows Storage Server

2012 Workgroup

Windows Storage Server

2012 Standard

Additions/Enhancements

FeaturesProcessor Support 1 64

Memory 32 GB 4TB

Virtual Instances 1 or 1 2

# of Disks 6, No external SAS Unlimited

Clustering No Yes

Licensing

License Coverage 1 processor

Up to 2 processor

Users 50 Unlimited

Channels EMB ROY/EMB

ROK Program NA ROY Only

iSCSI Target Yes Yes

Licensing Comparison

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Windows Storage Server

2012 R2 Workgroup

Windows Storage Server

2012 R2 Standard

Features

1 64

32 GB 4TB

1 or 1 2

6, No external SAS Unlimited

No Yes

Licensing

1 processor Up to 2 processor

50 Unlimited

EMB ROY/EMB

NA ROY Only

Yes Yes

||Note: While customer can install OS, distributor or reseller must affix COA before server and ROK are sent to customer. Software does not have to be preinstalled.

1. OEM ships server to distributor without an OS installed.

2. OEM ships Windows Server ROK directly to distributor.

3. Distributor offers OEM server hardware with OEM Windows Server ROK to resellers.

4. Reseller orders ROK kits and hardware from distributor, and may maintain inventory on premises. Reseller affixes the COA, installs the OS if requested and ships to the customer.

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Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard ROK

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How ROK works:WSS 2012 Standard & WSS 2012 R2 Standard Edition is available on ROK31

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