Introduction
Over the past several years, the increasing and demand on the storage technologies, has
become an essential component in driving the business productivity.
The
reality is data won’t be reducing and it keep on piling up year by year.At the same
time, other IT trends such as virtualization have created a demand to have more
machines to be run on a single host or more which will required a high
performance storage.
Yet, the cost of
the storage never decreases and it increases year by year. In this presentation
you will bring back a fruitful information which can help your organization to
tackle the issues related to cost, performance and also the data growth.
With the latest release of Microsoft
Windows Server 2012 beta,
the built in innovative technology it help you in term of the architecture design, Store Less and Save More…
So let’s
explore further how these new features can benefit your growing business…
What we have here?Storage Space & Storage Pool
In the market, they are different type of storage
available with a different capabilities which could give you flexible
storage and availability options that can be deployed in organizations of all
sizes and at any scale.
For a smaller
size of organization, they can leveraging on the internal storage or a
virtualized storage spaces that use SAS JBOD or JBOD. Some of you might heard
what is JBOD, it mean “just bunch of disk”, which mean you can have a set of
disk and then you combine all the available storage from different disk.
It can
be a USB external drive and also your internal storage. This is the
beauty of the capabilities and you can save more cost on the storage.
Storage Pool
In the nut-shell, storage pool it is a collection of physical disk and it combine into one pool. Doesn't it sound like a raid configuration?. Just the missing part will be like Raid 1,5 or 10. With the feature that is built-in , you can extend your storage and you can minimize the cost of investment while increasing productivity. In the past, when we would like to combine disk space from different type of disk, we can't do and we must have the raid controller to do it. But not we have a new changes, this is no longer a myth.
Storage Spaces
We have talk about storage pool, now we have storage spaces. What it mean?. Well if you see by the word "Spaces", you will know this would be the available storage.From a storage pool, you will a create virtual disks, which are
referred to as “spaces”. You can configure these virtual disks with a variety
of attributes, such as resiliency or just-in-time provisioning.
After you have created the virtual
disk, you will start to partition the volume and formatted with a NTFS file
system.
If you have hard time to imagine what it is all about, I have draft out a simple diagram for you to visualize how it look like. Stay tune to my next articles, I will cover more detail into configuration and with more solid screenshot step by step.
Part 2 Learn how to configure storage spaces
Summary
Very informative article. I would be very interested to know how would you use the technology to implement private cloud storage something like dropbox or skydrive?
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