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More Tips On Dealing With Removing Short File Names When Migrating To a SMB3...
You might have read my blog posts on the capabilities and the process of migrating to a Transparent Failover File Server. If not, here they are: SMB 3, ODX, Windows Server 2012 R2 & Windows 8.1...
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Migrate an old file server to a transparent failover file server with...
This is not a step by step “How to” but we’ll address some thing you need to do and the tips and tricks that might make things a bit smoother for you. 1) Disable Short file names & Strip existing...
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SMB 3, ODX, Windows Server 2012 R2 & Windows 8.1 perform magic in file...
SMB 3 for Transparent Failover File Shares SMB 3 gives us lots of goodies and one of them is Transparent Failover which allows us to make file shares continuously available on a cluster. I have talked...
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I Can’t Afford 10GBps For Hyper-V And Other Lies
You’re wrong There, I said it. Sure you can. Don’t think you need to be a big data center to make this happen. You just need to think and work outside the box a bit and when you’re not a large...
View ArticleRDMA Over RoCE With DCB Requires Tagged Non Default VLANs
It’s DCB That Requires This For those of you who are experimenting with the RoCE variant of RDMA for SMB Direct in Windows Server 2012 (R2), make sure you have a VLAN tag in your configuration if this...
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Live Migration over SMB Direct leaves more CPU cycles for Virtual RSS (vRSS)...
I recently (January 22nd 2014) gave a WebCast presentation for the Dutch Windows Management User Group (@WMUG_NL) in which I made the case for using SMB Direct with Live Migration to save CPU cycles...
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Unable to retrieve all data needed to run the wizard. Error details: "Cannot...
I was recently configuring a Windows Server 2012 File server cluster to provide SMB transparent failover with continuous available file shares for end users. So, we’re not talking about a Scale Out...
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Don’t Let Live Migration Settings Behavior Confuse You
Configuring live migration settings on a cluster In the cluster under Networks, Live Migration Settings you can select what networks are available for live migration and their order of preference....
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Preventing Live Migration Over SMB Starving CSV Traffic in Windows Server...
One of the big changes in Windows Server 2012 R2 is that all types of Live Migration can now leverage SMB 3.0 if the right conditions are met. That means that Multichannel & SMB Direct (RDMA) come...
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Configuring Performance Options for Live Migration In Windows Server 2012 R2...
New Options For Optimizing Live Migrations In Windows Server 2012 R2 we have a whole range of options to leverage Live Migration of our environment and needs. Next to the new default (Compression) we...
View ArticleI am presenting at VeeamON 2017
I’m travelling to New Orleans for VeeamON2. If you don’t know what that is, please check it out here. I can recommend this conference. Both the attendees and presenters are all very active users of...
View ArticleContinuous available general purpose file shares & ReFSv3 provide high...
Introduction In our previous two blog posts on Veeam and SMB 3 we’ve seen how and when Veeam Backup & Replication can leverage SMB Multichannel and SMB Direct. See Veeam Backup & Replication...
View ArticleVeeam Backup & Replication Preferred Subnet & SMB Multichannel
Introduction In a previous blog post Veeam Backup & Replication leverages SMB Multichannel post we showed that Veeam backup & Replication leverages SMB multichannel when possible. But what...
View ArticleVeeam Backup & Replication leverages SMB Multichannel
Introduction Is it true that Veeam Backup & Replication leverages SMB Multichannel? That is a question that I was asked recently. The answer is yes, when you have a backup design and configuration...
View ArticleSOFS / SMB 3 Offers Best VM Resiliency Experience
I have blogged about Virtual Machine Resiliency in Windows 2016 Failover Clustering before in Testing Virtual Machine Compute Resiliency in Windows Server 2016 Those test and demos were done with...
View ArticleMaximum bandwidth in Hyper-V storage QoS policies
Introduction In a previous blog post Hyper-V Storage QoS in Windows Server 2016 Works on SOFS and on LUNs/CSV I have discussed Storage QoS Policies in Windows Server 2016. I have also demonstrated this...
View ArticleA first look at shared virtual disks in Windows Server 2016
Introduction to shared virtual disks in Windows Server 2016 Time to take a first look at shared virtual disks in Windows Server 2016 and how they are set up. Shared VHDX was first introduced in Windows...
View ArticleMusings On Switch Embedded Teaming, SMB Direct and QoS in Windows Server 2016...
When you have been reading up on what’s new in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V networking you probably read about Switch Embedded Teaming (SET). Basically this takes the concept of teaming and has this...
View ArticleHigh performance live migration done right means using SMB Direct
I saw people team two 10GBps NICs for live migration and use TCP/IP. They leveraged LACP for this as per my blog Teamed NIC Live Migrations Between Two Hosts In Windows Server 2012 Do Use All Members...
View ArticleMore Tips On Dealing With Removing Short File Names When Migrating To a SMB3...
You might have read my blog posts on the capabilities and the process of migrating to a Transparent Failover File Server. If not, here they are: SMB 3, ODX, Windows Server 2012 R2 & Windows 8.1...
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