Windows Storage Server 2012 Released

Microsoft have released Windows Storage Server 2012 to its hardware partners.

You can get your hands on an evaluation version from the Microsoft Download Center and full OEM versions from TechNet, MSDN and MAPS.

Our goals for storage were to deliver innovations in four areas:

• Reducing the cost of storage
• Storage management efficiency
• Performance and capabilities
• Reliability and continuous availability

New capabilities:

 

Reducing storage costs and increasing cost effectiveness	Increasing storage management efficiency
Storage Spaces ReFS CSV v2 Thin Provisioning Data Deduplicatìon NFSv2, NFSv3, and NFSv4.1 support	Comprehensive Storage Management New Windows PowerShell cmdlets SMI-S and SMP support Remote Storage Management All from a single interface
Improving performance and capabilities	Maximizing reliability and availability
SMB Direct SMB Multichannel SMB Scale Out SQL Server over SMB Hyper-V over SMB Offloaded Data Transfer Live Storage Migration Virtual Fibre Channel	Continuous Availability for SMB, iSCSI and NFS Online scanning and repair in NTFS and ReFS Faster CHKDSK in NTFS Storage Spaces with ReFS SMB Transparent Failover Cluster-Aware Updating

More information can be found at the Windows Storage Server blog.

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