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Category: S2D

2016 Hyper-V S2D SCVMM SDN Software Defined

Hyper-V and VMQ’s – Mythbusting

28/03/2019 Dan 18

Updated in May 2022: For about a year or so now since MS made some tweaks and a growing confidence in the out of the box settings, the optimal position has changed on WS2019. Essentially leave VMQ in default settings for Windows Server 2019. A few months after this ranty

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Azure Azure Stack S2D Software Defined

MS Ignite Tour – Sydney

08/02/2019 Dan 0

Excited to be speaking at Microsoft Ignite The Tour in Sydney. For those coming along, below are my sessions and demo times slots… If you see me make sure you come up and say hi!  

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2016 Hyper-V S2D SCVMM Windows Server

S2D and CSV balancer – my take on things…

01/08/2018 Dan 0

The question: To enable or disable CSV balancer in S2D? Before we continue, I want to clarify the Cluster AutoBalancer and CSV Balancer are separate things. Cluster Autobalancer is relating to cluster roles, or in this case the VM’s. CSV balancer is about the CSV storage. Info on each can

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2016 Hyper-V Powershell S2D SCOM SCVMM Software Defined System Center Windows Server

Another S2D build blog… with a SCVMM twist (public draft)

13/06/2018 Dan 0

WORK IN PROGRESS Editors Note: this is still a working document as my priorities have to be on other work right now, but in the interest of sharing I have made this available now… If you find any issues or errors let me know – thanks for reading!   There

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2016 Hyper-V S2D Software Defined Windows Server

S2D on HPE Gen10 LFF – The BOM

04/05/2018 Dan 0

A few months ago we placed an order for some slick HPE Gen10 hardware to replace our existing storage service. Our trusty Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces with DL360 Gen8’s and DataON enclosures has served us well, very well, but it’s time to move on to the latest and greatest…

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2016 S2D Software Defined Windows Server

All-Flash and Storage Spaces Direct…

07/12/2017 Dan 0

An interesting solution brief of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure from DataOn got my cogs ticking on a topic that has bugged me for a while… All-Flash storage. Firstly, this DataON solution is a seriously slick contender… a 3M IOPS 4-node HCI in 8U. The tech geek in me would be quite pleased to

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2016 S2D Windows Server

S2D performance: 2-way mirror vs 3-way mirror

08/09/2017 Dan 0

How many mirrors? Over the past few months we’ve deployed several Storage Spaces Direct solutions, and one question that seems to pop up is the expected performance difference for a 2-way mirror vs a 3-way mirror. The obvious answer is a 2-way will out-perform a 3-way, but by how much?

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