The cyber world can be a perilous one. Even though you may never know exactly when a disaster will occur, you should always be ready for any scenario that may unfold across your datacenter. I have compiled a list of 17 tips that you can use to help you keep your datacenter ready for any…
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Happy New Year Everyone...This is my first blog post of 2017. Woo Hoo!! As always, I love to blog about questions from the field. This one came from a customer testing their new Virtual Desktop Infrustrure (VDI) on Nutanix and had 1 out of 50 users profiles be corrupt. He asked why did this happen and…
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Applications Microsoft SQL Server product group announced that SQL Server, either virtual or bare metal, is fully supported on Storage Spaces Direct. The Exchange Team did not have a clear endorsement for Exchange on S2D and clearly still prefers that Exchange is deployed on physical servers with local JBODs using Exchange Database Availability Groups or…
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Good day everyone. It been a few weeks, like busy with work and such. Anyways, this post will go into how Management & Operations are done in S2D. Now, my biggest pet peeve is complex GUI management and yet again, Microsoft doesn't disappoint. It still a number of steps in different interfaces to bring up…
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Yo everyone...This is going to be a short blog post in this series. I am just covering Networking and Storage QoS as it pertains to S2D. There are the technologies the bind S2D together. Storage QoS S2D is using the Storage (QoS) Quality of Service that ships with Windows Server 2016 which provides standard min/max…
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Fault Tolerance...What does it mean? Let me break it down simply. Pictured above is just a bad design, not fault tolerance. This is not really what fault tolerance means. Having two or more of something is one factor, but how it's implanted is just as important. Fault Tolerance incorporates two very important principles, High availability and Redundancy.…
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Here's where we dive in and get dirty...but I promise by the end of my series, you will smiling like my friend here. I am planning a surprise with special guest bloggers. Stayed Tuned. Now one to the show..... The NEW ReFS File System, Multi-Tier Volumes and Erasure Coding Like S2D, the ReFS file system…
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Storage Spaces Direct BasicsLike anything else, I'm going to start with the basics of the stack and then dive into details of each component over the next few blog posts. There's a lot to digest...So let's get rolling... As mentioned in my previous post, S2D can be deployed in either a more traditional disaggregated compute…