Hi folks, Ned here. I've spiked this post as we have a much newer preview and guide right here. All new scenarios, all new features, better performance, bug fixes, and much more to protect your business and your data. Go! GOOOOO!!!
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt126104.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-technical-preview
With the release of the Windows Server Technical Preview, we’ve unveiled a new feature, Storage Replica. Today we released a step-by-step guide to match.
Storage Replica enables storage-agnostic, block-level, synchronous replication between clusters or servers for disaster recovery, as well as stretching of a failover cluster for high availability. Synchronous replication enables mirroring of data in physical sites with crash-consistent volumes ensuring zero data loss at the file system level. Asynchronous replication allows site extension beyond metropolitan ranges with the possibility of data loss.
To help you get familiar with Storage Replica, we have a downloadable guide to provide you with step-by-step instructions for evaluating the Stretch Cluster and the Server-to-Server scenarios. These are both designed for Disaster Recovery and provide “over the river” synchronous metro replication.
Windows Server Technical Preview implements the following features in Storage Replica:
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Feature
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Notes
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Type
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Host-based
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Synchronous
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Yes
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Asynchronous
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Yes (server to server only)
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Storage hardware agnostic
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Yes
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Replication unit
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Volume (Partition)
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Windows Server Stretch Cluster creation
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Yes
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Write order consistency across volumes
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Yes
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Transport
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SMB3
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Network
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TCP/IP or RDMA
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RDMA
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iWARP, InfiniBand
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Replication network port firewall requirements
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Single IANA port (TCP 445 or 5445)
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Multipath/Multichannel
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Yes (SMB3)
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Kerberos support
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Yes
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Over the wire encryption and signing
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Yes (SMB3)
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Per-volume failovers allowed
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Yes
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Dedup & BitLocker volume support
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Yes
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Management UI in-box
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Windows PowerShell, Failover Cluster Manager
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This is an early pre-release build. Many of the features and scenarios are still in development, the experiences are still evolving. At this stage, Windows Server Technical Preview and Storage Replica are not intended for production environments, only for introductory evaluation.
Download the guide:
- Windows Server Technical Preview Storage Replica Guide – http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=514902
Download Windows Server Technical Preview evaluations:
- TechNet Evaluation Center (US): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-vnext-technical-preview
- TechNet Evaluation Center (worldwide): http://technet.microsoft.com/evalcenter/dn781243
- MSDN subscribers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/
For feedback:
- TechNet Forums: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=WinServerPreview
Thanks for your evaluation and feedback, it is always appreciated. Much more varied content and news to come as the release cycle evolves.
Thanks Inderjit. 🙂
Being synchronous is the main advantage for Hyper-V- zero RPO. HVR has many other attractive features as long as you only care about async replication (goes over thinner networks, uses HTTP, has an application-centric story, etc.). SR is more general use for
various workloads, which makes it more flexible but also less tailored.
Great document as always Ned, still remember the old Microsoft days, you sitting with team sharing good stuff, thanks.
regards – Inderjit Singh
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This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting
Excellent, I’ve been waiting for this. Looking at the most simple setup where you have one Hyper-V host in site1 with a few VMS and one Hyper-V host in site2 which is the DR site. Today we use Hyper-V replica to replicate all VMs from site1->site2. I guess
Storage Replica would be a good alternative for us. What would you say is the main pro of using this instead of HV Replica? Is it just the feature to be able to run Synchronous replication to guarantee consistency? Or is Storage Replica more for general purpose
file servers?
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Good job! So we’ve used Technical Preview to create a general-purpose file server cluster with NO SHARED STORAGE. Anybody interested in a step-by-step guide can go here:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/?p=25
Thanks again 🙂
Anton
…and Part II: 2-node Scale-Out File Server with NO SHARED STORAGE. Failover is completely transparent even with a Technical Preview version (somehow limited on IOPS). "Cooking book" is here:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/?p=42
So waiting for more interesting stuff unlocked soon 🙂
Anton
This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting
This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting
This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting
still curious as to why you have not purchased sanbolic and integrated them within your stack.
Aujourd’hui se termine le TechEd Europe 2014 à Barcelone , qui a donné lieu à un certain nombre d
This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting
This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting
This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting
This blog post offers a collection of links to the publicly available content for those experimenting
Now that the Windows Server Technical Preview is out, we are able to get our first looks at some of the
Hi folks, Ned here again. I will be presenting at TechEd Europe in Barcelona Oct 28-31, with my focus