Windows 8 Platform Storage – Part 1

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Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:03:20 GMT

Q: You mentioned "richer set of storage virtualization". Does Hyper-V in Windows Server 8 take advantage of VT-d or still not?

A: Hyper-V leverages SRIOV hardware support for networking in Win8. For Storage, Win8 utilizes other storage related hardware-supported technologies to enhance performance.

re: Windows 8 Platform Storage – Part 1

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:02:00 GMT

Q: Just a quick ? - when you all say for instance:

Pools can be comprised of heterogeneous media types

Could you deploy SSDs in a caching fashion for the pool?

A: Pools can definitely be composed of heterogenous media types, such as HDDs and SSDs. Administrators can build Spaces out of a particular media type to serve the needs of that particular Space’s workload.

re: Windows 8 Platform Storage – Part 1

Rich — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:53:51 GMT

I like Storage Spaces concept hope it works well in the final product with out any issues

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Jeremy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:51:11 GMT

Just a quick ? - when you all say for instance:

Pools can be comprised of heterogeneous media types

Could you deploy SSDs in a caching fashion for the pool?

re: Windows 8 Platform Storage – Part 1

xpclient — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:46:37 GMT

You mentioned "richer set of storage virtualization". Does Hyper-V in Windows Server 8 take advantage of VT-d or still not?

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Daniel — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:59:55 GMT

Cool, this should help people who have a lot of storage big time!

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kidsilver — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:10:30 GMT

I dont think our servers are going to see 64TB anytime soon, but that graph is seriously impressive. Nice work.

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Abdulla Mohamed Saeed — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:59:47 GMT

Thanks! Good post.