{"id":11799,"date":"2011-09-16T18:33:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2011-09-16T18:33:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:33:33","slug":"building-continuously-available-filer-server-nas-appliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11799","title":{"rendered":"Building Continuously Available Filer Server NAS Appliances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers are Gene Chellis and Cristian Teodorescu<\/p>\n<p>A file server NAS could be a fine appliance for SQL Server or Hyper-V file storage.&#160; This is the last of the sessions in the storage track.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Why is NAS Relevant?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customers like them according to sales figures. Sales rising steeply for last 2 year and into future, whereas file servers sales growing slowly now and in future (after 2 years of big drop)<\/li>\n<li>Simple deployment (appliance)<\/li>\n<li>Supports virtualisation and private cloud<\/li>\n<li>Storage optimized hardware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Requirements of NAS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support heterogeneous environments: Windows\/Unix and File\/Block<\/li>\n<li>Support multiple workloads: client <em>and<\/em> server<\/li>\n<li>Designed for end-to-end storage performance<\/li>\n<li>Designed for continuous availability<\/li>\n<li>Integrated software\/hardware\/packaging (appliance)<\/li>\n<li>Simplified setup, configuration, and management (appliance experience)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>New for Unified Storage on Windows Server 8<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iSCSI target continuous availability<\/li>\n<li>NFS v3 server continuous availability<\/li>\n<li>NFS 4.1 server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>End-to-End Storage Performance<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Requirements vary by workload.&#160; Some OEMs have not considered that and sometimes have a bottleneck that prevents high end-end performance.<\/p>\n<p>Long demo of a virtualised pre-packaged NAS\/cluster appliance with lots of wizards to set it up.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:e754b746-6cef-491f-857b-4ec0f808225b\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Event+Notes\" rel=\"tag\">Event Notes<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers are Gene Chellis and Cristian Teodorescu A file server NAS could be a fine appliance for SQL Server or Hyper-V file storage.&#160; This is the last of the sessions in the storage track. Why is NAS Relevant? Customers like them according to sales figures. Sales rising steeply for last 2 year and into future, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building Continuously Available Filer Server NAS Appliances&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[176,109],"class_list":["post-11799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-eventnotes","tag-windows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}