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<\/a><\/p>\nMicrosoft said<\/a>:<\/p>\n Dell\u2019s announcement is an exciting development which will help more customers take advantage of the performance and availability of virtualized storage with Windows Server.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Dell went on<\/a>:<\/p>\n Microsoft\u2019s Storage Spaces, a technology in Windows Server 2012 R2, combined with Dell\u2019s PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage expansion solutions, can help organizations like hosters and cloud-providers that don\u2019t have the feature-set needs for a separate storage array to deliver advanced, enterprise-class storage capabilities, such as continuous availability and scalability, on affordable industry-standard servers and storage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The HCL<\/a> has Dell has also published<\/a> Deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces on Dell PowerVault.<\/p>\n So, one of the big storage companies has blinked. Who is next?<\/p>\n BTW, when I checked out the Irish pricing, the Dell MD1220 was twice the price of the DataOn DNS-1640. After bid price, that’ll be an even match, so it’ll come down to disks for the pricing comparison.<\/p>\n Dell, in cooperation with Microsoft, announced the release of their supported hardware for Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces and Scale-Out File Server. Microsoft said: Dell\u2019s announcement is an exciting development which will help more customers take advantage of the performance and availability of virtualized storage with Windows Server. Dell went on: Microsoft\u2019s Storage Spaces, … Continue reading “Dell & Microsoft Announce Support For WS2012 R2 Storage Spaces”<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[172,63,181,99,100,195,120],"class_list":["post-15974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-cloud","tag-failover-clustering","tag-hyper-v","tag-storage","tag-storage-spaces","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tnot<\/del> been updated yet, but it appears that<\/del>. Dell has two appliances that they are pushing:<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>\u00a02 x clustered servers with 2 x MD12xx JBODs<\/em><\/p>\n