Storage Spaces delivers sophisticated storage virtualization capabilities, which empower customers to use industry-standard storage for single computer and scalable multi-node deployments.
It is appropriate for a wide range of customers, including enterprise and cloud hosting companies, which use Windows Server for highly available storage that can cost-effectively grow with demand.
With Storage Spaces the Windows storage stack has been fundamentally enhanced to incorporate two new abstractions:.
Storage pools. A collection of physical disks that enable you to aggregate disks, expand capacity in a flexible manner, and delegate administration.
Storage spaces. Virtual disks created from free space in a storage pool. Storage spaces have such attributes as resiliency level, storage tiers, fixed provisioning, and precise administrative control. You can manage Storage Spaces through:. Storage pools are the fundamental building blocks for Storage Spaces. Storage administrators are already familiar with this concept, obviating the need to learn a new model.
They can flexibly create storage pools based on the needs of the deployment. For example, given a set of physical disks, an administrator can create one pool by using all the available physical disks or multiple pools by dividing the physical disks as required.
Furthermore, to maximize the value from storage hardware, the administrator can combine hard disks and solid-state drives SSDs in the same pool, using storage tiers to move frequently accessed portions of files to SSD storage, and using write-back caches to buffer small random writes to SSD storage.
Pools can be expanded dynamically by simply adding additional disks, thereby seamlessly scaling to cope with data growth. Resilient storage. Storage Spaces provides three storage layouts also known as resiliency types :. Writes data in a stripe across multiple disks while also writing one or two extra copies of the data. Splitting workloads makes almost everything easier. I have seen a lot of clients where they only have one server, but that server is running IIS, DC, Exchange, Antivirus console, application server, and more.
Virtualize, then move each workload to its own VM. Then, when you want to upgrade a domain functional level, you don't have to move exchange and a web server first. You don't have to take down your website to patch Exchange. You won't need to lose your domain connectivity when you reboot an application server. These are just a few potential examples.
During future upgrades, you can then focus on the product you are upgrading, rather than facing the daunting task of upgrading everything at once. This also greatly reduces the possibility of conflicts between applications on a given server.
I know this post is old but I found this reply very interesting and was hoping someone could expand on their knowledge of virtualization. I have struggled with going to virtual as most of the stuff I find is very vague and does not give enough details on how to actually do it..
Let me tell you my current virtual setups and hopefully someone can tell me how I can change it so I can get all of the advantages mentioned above. All of our clients are around 5 to 25 users and use some sort of SBS server 03, 08,11 12 essentials.
My virtual setup is Vmware free hyper-visor, I setup sbs as a guest vm and use storgagecraft shadowprotect as my image backup. Looking at the above list of reasons to go virtual I only see about 2 that I am currently getting with my virtual setup,.
These articles highlight some of the benefits of virtualization described in this thread and how to take advantage of them using StorageCraft products. I see these features and I think to myself, these are pretty interesting and merit more research and testing.
Brand Representative for StarWind. SSDs are not going to help much here as small metadata updates will trigger while RAID stripe update so many many extra erase-write cycles.
So if you want to go Storage Spaces then mirror with multiple columns see below are your best friends. Storage Spaces Design for Performance. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. This should be pitted against configuring a large Raid10 array from the beginning. Grateful for all thoughts and comments :.
Best Answer. StorageNinja This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Users can utilize this technology to group multiple drives together into a storage pool and then use the capacity of the pool to create virtual drives named storage spaces.
This technology can help users to protect their data from drive failure through mirroring data and extend storage space through adding drivers to PC. It can verify data corruption automatically and try to recover it. At the same time, there are performance improvements in dealing with hundreds of millions of files. Simple no resiliency : This type needs at least one drive and will write one copy of data.
So, it won't protect data from drive failure click to know how to recover data from a failed hard drive. Two-way mirror: It needs at least two drives and will write two copies of data and it will protect data from a single drive failure.
It is similar to RAID 1. Three-way mirror: It needs at least five drives and will write three copies of data. The usable space is a third of the total capacity. But it will protect data from two simultaneous drive failures.
Parity: It needs at least three drives and writes data with parity information. It will protect data from a single drive failure. It is similar to RAID 5. Let's see the difference of Windows 10 Storage Spaces vs.
The number of sockets is determined by physical RAID controller. Generally speaking, operating system treats RAID as one disk. So, if the disks in hardware RAID have different capacities, space wasting will occur. However, Windows 10 Storage Spaces will not cause this waste because operating system can still operate single drive. As for read write speed performance, many people have tested. But Windows Storage Spaces still have its advantages like no fee and data protection.
Users can try it. So I'm currently at a cross-road. I can add x Western Digital RE4 4TB drives and repair the pool and get some additional storage added to the virtual disk. What do you recommend? But would additional cost be worth it? ShouId I be able repair the virtual disk if I add an additional drive?
The GUI doesn't really tell you anything Is M or M worth the additional cost? How easy is it to flash M to , M to and M to ? Just as easy as with M to IT? Any potential drawbacks? Apr 9, I would try use NTFS first.
Hmm, I might give that a go. There is a chance repair will never finish. PigLover Moderator. Jan 26, 3, 1, In general, any single "flow" e. LACP really helps when you have a server with multiple client systems simultaneously requiring access - but for mostly point-to-point transfers it doesn't help much. Windows SMB 3. If you want to speed up writes for a single-parity storage space, rebuild it with 2 SSDs. Configure them as Journal drives and then build your Storage space drive with write-caching enabled.
But it does help significantly with writes.
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