As mentioned in my previous post, I recently traveled to China, where I spent time with Huawei—a new Windows Storage Server 2012 OEM. During the visit, I was really impressed by how all the people I met were very knowledgeable about storage and demonstrated strong expertise in hardware, software and networking. This picture was taken…
A Quick Update, More to Come…
Hi folks, Lots of things have been happening since my last blog article. We released Windows Storage Server 2012 to Microsoft hardware partners in September 2012 and I’ve been traveling far-and-wide to train engineers and support staff. I wound-up the first half of my world tour at the HP Discover Conference in Frankfurt where they…
Windows Storage Server 2012 is available to Microsoft’s hardware partners!
Windows Storage Server 2012, built using Windows Server 2012 technologies, is a platform for Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. The storage team is working with our hardware partners to bring new storage solutions to market based on Windows Storage Server 2012. Storage appliance manufacturers integrate the platform with their customized hardware and software solutions to…
The HP X5520 G2 was reviewed by Windows IT Pro Magazine
Windows IT Pro magazine’s Michael Otey published a review of the X5520 G2, the latest Cluster-in-a-box (CiB) from HP that is running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2. You can learn about CiB system designs and links to presentations on Jose Barreto’s most recent blog about Windows demos at TechEd. These are some fine running machines…
IBM Webcast for Windows NAS
Today at 11:00am PST there is a webcast with IBM to discuss their Windows NAS product line. We would like to welcome you to come and join John Donovan and Scott Johnson (that’s me!) to discuss the capabilities and configurations that are possible in this cost effective and capable platform. IBM is one of the…
HP announces the X5000: A Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 cluster!
I am on the floor of HP Discover, the premier event of the year for HP hardware and software solutions. I am really impressed by the breadth of products, services and solutions that HP has to offer. They just announced today the newest addition to the Windows Storage Server family, the X5000 G2 NAS! This…
Shared storage for Windows Failover Cluster with MPIO
Microsoft released the iSCSI Software Target 3.3 on the download center in April. I have seen many people download, try it out, and gave great feedback. We had a question raised about the policy for supporting iSCSI Target with initiator clusters using MPIO configurations. The support statement and relevant articles have been updated to remove…
Come visit the Windows Storage Server team at TechEd!
The Windows Storage Server team will be at #MSTechEd all week, the Microsoft Technical Education conference with thousands of people getting the latest technical details and interacting with Microsoft product experts. If you’re attending TechEd 2011 this week, here are sessions from the File Server team: WSV313 – Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 for Application…
Diskless servers can boot and run from the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target using a regular network card!
The new Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 includes support for a new feature called differencing virtual hard disks (VHDs). This feature helps deploy diskless boot for servers running Windows, especially in a Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 compute cluster environment. We worked closely with the HPC team to deliver a simple management experience. The deployment…
iSCSI Software Target 3.3 is now a free download!
Microsoft got into the iSCSI Target business when we acquired WinTarget from String Bean software in 2006. We continued to improve the software over the last 5 years; increasing performance and reliability, adding support for new languages and technologies like IPv6, Windows Server Failover Clustering, Microsoft MPIO, PowerShell cmdlets and even differencing VHDs. We updated…