{"id":18608,"date":"2015-07-10T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T09:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18608"},"modified":"2015-07-10T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T09:25:06","slug":"software-defined-storage-calculator-and-design-considerations-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18608","title":{"rendered":"Software-Defined Storage Calculator and Design Considerations Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched an Excel-based sizing <a href=\"https:\/\/gallery.technet.microsoft.com\/Software-Defined-Storage-5b825eff\" target=\"_blank\">tool<\/a> to help you plan Storage Spaces (Scale-Out File Server) and <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/0923b851-eb0a-48ee-bfcb-d584363be668\" target=\"_blank\">guidance<\/a> on how to design your Storage Spaces deployments.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the sizing for a very big SOFS that will require 4 x SOFS server nodes and 4 x 60 disk JBODs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image_thumb4.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> The <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/0923b851-eb0a-48ee-bfcb-d584363be668\" target=\"_blank\">considerations guide<\/a> will walk you through using the sizing tool.<\/p>\n<p>Some updates are required &#8211; some newer disk sizes aren\u2019t included &#8211; but this is a great starting point for a design process.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2dbb90fe-3150-4c50-b2fe-7718cedeec01\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage+Spaces\" rel=\"tag\">Storage Spaces<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage\" rel=\"tag\">Storage<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched an Excel-based sizing tool to help you plan Storage Spaces (Scale-Out File Server) and guidance on how to design your Storage Spaces deployments. Here\u2019s the sizing for a very big SOFS that will require 4 x SOFS server nodes and 4 x 60 disk JBODs: The considerations guide will walk you through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Software-Defined Storage Calculator and Design Considerations Guide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[181,99,100,195,120],"class_list":["post-18608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-hyper-v","tag-storage","tag-storage-spaces","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/4870003098_26ba44a08a_z.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18608","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=18608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18610,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18608\/revisions\/18610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}