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SMB 3.0 Multichannel Auto Configuration In Action With RDMA / SMB Direct
Most of you might remember this slide by Jose Barreto on SMB Multichannel Auto Configuration in one of his many presentations: Auto configuration looks at NIC type/speed => Same NICs are used for...
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MVP Carsten Rachfahl Visits & Interviews Me On Networking & Storage in...
Last month Carsten (MVP – Virtual Machine) & Kerstin Rachfahl (MVP – Office 365) visited me in my home town. Apart from a short visit to the historic center & a sushi diner amongst friends we...
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Complete VM Mobility Across The Data Center with SMB 3.0, RDMA, Multichannel...
Introduction The moment I figured out that Storage Live Migration (in certain scenarios) and Shared Nothing Live Migration leverage SMB 3.0 and as such Multichannel and RDMA in Windows Server 2012 I...
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Shared Virtual Disks in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Maximizes TCO/ROI
One of the great additions to Hyper-V in Windows Server 20012 R2 are shared virtual disks. TechEd 2013 is disclosing a lot of new and improved features and this is one of them! This single feature...
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Verifying SMB 3.0 Multichannel/RDMA Is Working In Windows Server 2012 (R2)
So you have spend some money on RDMA cards (RoCE in this example), spent even more money on 10Gbps Switches with DCB capabilities and last but not least you have struggled for many hours to get PFC,...
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TechEd 2013 Revelations for Storage Vendors as the Future of Storage lies...
Imagine you’re a storage vendor until a few years ago. Racking in the big money with profit margins unseen by any other hardware in the past decade and living it up in dreams along the Las Vegas...
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DELL PowerEdge VRTX Has Potential Beyond ROBO As a Scale Out File Server...
The PowerEdge VRTX I went to have a chat with Dell at TechEd 2013 Europe in Madrid. The VRTX was launched during DELL Enterprise Forum early June 2013 this concept packs a punch and I encourage you to...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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RDMA 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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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