Storage Management Features in Windows Server 2003 R2

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Storage Management Features in Windows Server
2003 R2
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What Will We Cover?

• Storage management history and vision
• New features in Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  R2
• What Microsoft is doing to simplify SANs

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Helpful Experience

• General knowledge of Windows Server
• Storage principles and fundamentals

Level 200
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Agenda

• Windows Storage Overview
• File Server Resource Manger (FSRM)
• Storage Manager for SANs (SMfS)
• Additional Storage Technology

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Storage Management Challenges

• Storage growth estimates 60-100 per year
• Managing storage growth effectively is a
  challenge
• Adding more direct attached storage (DAS)
  increases complexity
• Networked storage solutions can be complex
• Few IT professionals are storage experts
• Costs of managing storage can be 10x the cost of
  storage
• Consolidating File Servers/Storage is involved

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Storage Management History

• Windows NT Server
• Basic SAN connectivity
• Windows 2000 Server
• Improved clustering
• Better load balancing

• Windows Server 2003
• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
• Virtual Disk Service (VDS)
• Storport
• Flexible volume mounting
• Multipathing (MPIO)
• SAN boot
• Support for iSCSI (SAN over IP)

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Windows Server 2003 R2 New Features
File Server Resource Manager
(FSRM)
Capacity Management
Policy Management File Screening
Quota Management
Storage Manager for SANs
(SMfS)
Configuration Management
Disk provisioning
Disk management
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Agenda

• Windows Storage Overview
• File Server Resource Manger (FSRM)
• Storage Manager for SANs (SMfS)
• Additional Storage Technology

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FSRM Challenges and Scenarios

• Capacity Management
• Policy Management
• Quota Management

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FSRM What does it do?

• Functionality facilitates capacity management

• Duplicate files
• Quota usage
• File screen audit
• Export report

• Large files
• Most/least used
• Files by owner
• Files by file group

Predefined

• Multiple folders or shares

• Multiple volumes

Configurable
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FSRM Policy Management

• Applies to a folder tree or volume
• Screening
• Same set of notification as quotas
• Self-consistent volume configuration
• Cluster support

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FSRM Quota Management

• Quotas limit the size of a directory tree or a
  volume
• Quota applies to all users files in directory
• Limit can be soft or hard
• Multiple notification thresholds at configurable
  quota utilization levels
• Self-consistent volume configuration

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Demo
demonstration

• File Server Resource Manager

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Agenda

• Windows Storage Overview
• File Server Resource Manger (FSRM)
• Storage Manager for SANs (SMfS)
• Additional Storage Technology

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Storage Manger for SANs (SMfS)

• Small and midsize business (SMB) market cannot
  get SAN benefits
• Existing tools are complex and expensive
• Administrators have limited experience
• SMfS offers basic SAN management
• SMfS enables
• Shared storage solutions
• Clustering

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SMfS Management and Provisioning

• Basics
• Uses Virtual Disk Service (VDS) infrastructure
• Does not require SAN expertise
• Targets small-scale SANs on simplified hardware
• MMC snap-in

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SMfS Management and Provisioning

• Functionality
• Discovery of arrays on a Fibre Channel or iSCSI
  SAN
• Create, delete, and expand storage array LUNs
• Specification of LUN options, such as RAID levels
  
• Allocation of LUNs to specific servers on the SAN
• Monitor LUNs, including status/health and
  allocation
• Using VDS, integrates
• iSCSI, iSNS, MPIO, HBA API
• Local storage management

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SMfS Details

• Uses VDS API to manage storage (hardware
  providers)
• Fibre Channel
• iSCSI
• PCI RAID (DAS)
• iSCSI and HBA API connectivity
• MPIO for path management

Storage Managerfor SANs
VDS
Provider
Provider
iSCSI
MPIO
HBAAPI
(managed via VDS)
Storage Hardware
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SMfS iSCSI and MPIO Integration

• iSCSI user interface
• Configures iSCSI host, target, security
• Multipathing
• Enables HBA ports for multipathing

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Demo
demonstration

• Storage Manager for SANs

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Agenda

• Windows Storage Overview
• File Server Resource Manger (FSRM)
• Storage Manager for SANs (SMfS)
• Additional Storage Technology

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Distributed File System

• Virtualizes file servers and network-attached
  storage devices
• Logical view to physical storage and unified
  global namespace
• Translates logical names to physical shares
• Share location is transparent to clients

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UNIX Interoperation

• Microsoft Services for NFS
• NFS AdminUI
• NFS client
• NFS server
• Server for NFS Authentication

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Expanding SAN Solution Reach

• SANs provide many benefits including centralized,
  shared storage
• SAN adoption in SMBs has been low
• complex
• expensive
• poor solution component interoperability

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Simplifying SANs

• Microsoft is committed to help
• iSCSI SANs
• Enable SAN solutions by using existing IP
  infrastructure and knowledge base
• VDS Integration
• Partner applications are using the VDS framework
  for both iSCSI and Fibre Channel simplified SAN
  solutions
• Simple SAN Program

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Session Summary

• Windows Server 2003 R2 enables simple SAN
  provisioning
• SMfS allows file quota management, file
  screening, and file storage reporting
• MSNFS connectivity bridges interoperability gaps
  in heterogeneous environments