Storage Spaces Direct

Howard on HCI: DataON & Microsoft are Starting a New Era with Azure Stack HCI!

Last Thursday Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Stack HCI, the new subscription service for hyper-converged infrastructure from Microsoft Azure. It’s the next step in the evolution of software-defined infrastructure from Microsoft, bringing together the familiarity and flexibility of on-premises virtualization with powerful new hybrid capabilities. It’s come a long way from the early … Howard on HCI: DataON & Microsoft are Starting a New Era with Azure Stack HCI!

Five Things Blog: 25 Cool Things You Can Do with Azure Stack HCI

The time has come to refresh your infrastructure. You want to eliminate your legacy storage, consolidate your infrastructure, and deploy a software-defined hybrid cloud solution. It must be simple, highly scalable, and highly resilient. It must support the latest technology, provide cost-conscious options for the edge, and deliver the performance that demanding SQL Server workloads, … Five Things Blog: 25 Cool Things You Can Do with Azure Stack HCI

DataON Labs: Stretched Clusters on Azure Stack HCI Setup & Demo

With Microsoft’s announcement of the new Azure Stack HCI, there is one major feature that has many IT admins excited: stretched clusters. With Azure Stack HCI stretched clusters you essentially have a solution for disaster recovery with automatic failover. Previously you could combine Storage Replica and failover clusters, both proven technologies, to provide business continuity … DataON Labs: Stretched Clusters on Azure Stack HCI Setup & Demo

IT Hero Blog: Upgrading and Expanding a Storage Spaces Direct Cluster

Bill Webster is an Assistant Director for Administrative Computing at Florida Polytechnic University. Located in Lakeland, Florida, in the heart of Florida’s High-Tech Corridor, Florida Poly is engineered from the ground up to push the boundaries of education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Bill Webster Assistant Director for Administrative Computing – Florida Polytechnic … IT Hero Blog: Upgrading and Expanding a Storage Spaces Direct Cluster

DataON Labs: Delimiting Volumes over 10 Nodes

Delimiting volume allocation is a new feature in Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct (Azure Stack HCI) to significantly increase the fault tolerance of your cluster. Normally, a 4+ node Storage Spaces Direct cluster can survive up to two concurrent failures before the cluster volumes go offline. With the delimited volume allocation feature, it can … DataON Labs: Delimiting Volumes over 10 Nodes

Technical Sneak Peek on Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Many IT departments are looking at hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to replace their traditional storage area networks (SANs). HCI consolidates software-defined compute, storage, and networking to provide easily scalable virtualization that is high performing and affordable. Microsoft first introduced HCI in Windows Server 2016 with Storage Spaces Direct and Hyper-V. Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers … Technical Sneak Peek on Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Deep Dive

In March of 2019 Microsoft announced Azure Stack HCI; an on-premise implementation of their Azure cloud service. Julia White, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure, in a blog post put it this way, “We are bringing our existing HCI technology into the Azure Stack family for customers to run virtualized applications on-premises with direct access … Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Deep Dive

IT Hero Blog: Transitioning to a Hyper-converged Infrastructure: The Do’s and the Don’ts

For our IT Hero blog series, we’ve invited our customers to share their real-world experiences from deploying Windows Server software-defined solutions. This month our IT Hero is Matt Lehmann. Matt is an information technology manager for Automotive Product Consultants (APC) Integrated Services Group, a leading marketing services company for the automotive industry. Matt has over … IT Hero Blog: Transitioning to a Hyper-converged Infrastructure: The Do’s and the Don’ts

Faster Time to Value with Second Generation Intel Select Solutions for Windows Server Software-Defined Solutions and SQL Server

One of the challenges that IT administrators face is deciding which hardware and how much hardware to purchase for their data centers. This is especially true for IT administrators that have made the decision to switch to a Microsoft Windows Server-based hyper-converged infrastructure. It’s still relatively new and even with an ever-growing number of deployed … Faster Time to Value with Second Generation Intel Select Solutions for Windows Server Software-Defined Solutions and SQL Server