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The built-in SMB PowerShell aliases in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
1 – Overview Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 introduced a new set of PowerShell cmdlets to manage File Servers and File Shares. If you're not familiar with them, I would recommend reviewing my blog...
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SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2012 is just a few weeks away
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 9th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September...
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Compilation of my live tweets from SNIA’s SDC 2012 (Storage Developer...
Here is a compilation of my live tweets from SNIA’s SDC 2012 (Storage Developers Conference). You can also read those directly from twitter at http://twitter.com/josebarreto (in reverse order) Notes...
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Talks at SNW Fall 2012 in October will cover SMB Direct, Hyper-V over SMB and...
I have three presentations lined up for the ComputerWorld/SNIA SNW Fall 2012 Conference, scheduled for October 16-19, 2012 in Santa Clara, California. Here are the details for each one, taken from the...
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Windows Server 2012, File Servers and SMB 3.0 – Simpler and Easier by Design
1. Introduction I have been presenting our solution in Windows Server 2012 for File Storage for Virtualization (Hyper-V over SMB) and Databases (SQL Server over SMB) for a while now. I always start the...
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SNIA Tutorials cover a wealth of Storage knowledge (SNW Fall 2012 Update)
I’m always amazed by the vast amount of knowledge being posted online for free download. If you are an IT Professional who deals with Storage (or if you manage one of them), check out the high-quality...
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TechNet Radio series covers Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0...
I have been working with Bob Hunt at the TechNet Radio team to provide a series of webcasts with information about SMB 3.0 and the File Server role in Windows Server 2012. These are fairly informal...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Switch to the High Performance power...
When you install a fresh copy of Windows Server 2012 and configure it with the File Server role, the default Power Setting balances power efficiency and performance.For this reason, even if you have a...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Make sure your network interfaces are...
The new SMB Multichannel feature improves performance for network interfaces by using multiple TCP connections for a single network interface automatically. SMB will only do this if your network...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Use multiple subnets when deploying SMB...
SMB Multichannel will let you use multiple network interfaces at once for added throughput and network fault tolerance. When using it with non-clustered file servers, you have the most flexible...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Disable 8.3 Naming (and strip those...
This has been a performance tip for File Servers for some time now: disable short names. There are big performance savings in disabling 8.3 naming and also for removing existing short names on a...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Continuous Availability does not work...
When deploying the Continuous Availability feature of the new File Server clusters in Windows Server 2012, be careful not to use volumes that have either 8.3 naming or NTFS compression enabled.If you...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Enable CSV Caching on Scale-Out File...
Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) in Windows Server 2012 has a great new feature to allow using system memory as a write-through cache. Since Scale-Out File Server Clusters use CSV, enabling this CSV cache...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Avoid loopback configurations for...
When deploying Hyper-V over SMB (storing your live configuration and live VHD/VHDX files on an SMB 3.0 file share), make sure you don’t use a loopback configuration. A loopback configuration means that...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Run the File Services Best Practices...
Windows Server 2012 includes a built-in mechanism called Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) to check your configuration and make sure everything is set to the proper values. These set of rules, which come...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Use PowerShell to find the free space on...
A while back, I showed how to use PowerShell V2 and our old SMB WMIv1 object to explain how to find the free space behind a file share (essentially the free space for the volume that contains the file...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: New per-share SMB client performance...
Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 include a new set of performance counters that can greatly help understand the performance of the SMB file protocol. These include new counters on both the server side...
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New ESG Lab Validation Report shows Performance of Windows Server 2012...
There is a new ESG report out that shows the Storage and Networking performance of Windows Server 2012. It highlights the findings around a few key new features, including:Storage SpacesSMB 3.0 File...
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How does New-SmbShare know whether the new share should be standalone,...
I got a question the other day about one of the scripts I published as part of a step-by-step for Hyper-V over SMB, Here's the relevant line from that script:New-SmbShare -Name VMS3 -Path...
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How to use the new SMB 3.0 WMI classes in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8...
If you're an IT Administrator, you're likely to use the new SMB PowerShell cmdlets to manage your SMB 3.0 file shares. You can find details about those at...
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