SC Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2Storage Management / SoFSDamian FlynnInfrastructure Architect / MVP

info@DamianFlynn.comwww.DamianFlynn.com

@damian_flynnwww.petri.co.il/author/damian-flynn

Damian Flynn is the Infrastructure Architect. His current focus is on Software

Defined Networks (SDN) with “Windows Azure Pack”, with perspective on

Orchestration of repeatable processes in “Dev/Ops” scenarios.

He has a keen interest in Cloud Computing from both a business strategy and

technical viewpoint and presents sessions on building and managing Private/Hybrid

Clouds at a number of industry events. Damian authored the Cloud chapters on two

books, is active in many MS Programs, blogs at www.damianflynn.com &

www.petri.co.il, tweets at @damian_flynn, and has published a number of white

papers and technical articles.

Insight Flexibility Automation

Windows Storage Management API (Windows PowerShell and WMI)

Pass-through API for extensibility (WMI)

Storage Array

Vendor-provided SMI-S provider

(CIMXML or WMI)

Storage Array

Vendor-provided transport and/or

protocol

Just Bunch Of Disk

JBOD

• Virtual Fibre Channel support

• Management of zones

• Leverage of the Windows Server 2012 ODX capability

• Shared VHDX support

• Integration of storage differencing disks optimizations.

• Storage spaces File

• Provision Scale-Out File Server cluster (Inc. Bare Metal)

VMM SoFS Demo

• Select Drive to host the Shared VHDX files

• Using PowerShell

• Install-WindowsFeature Failover-Clustering

• There is no need to create a cluster from this host.

• Run

• FLTMC.EXE attach svhdxflt D:

• where D: is the drive letter that you selected for VHDXs

• Enable your

Shared VHDX

Q&A