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Does data locality matter? My Perspective on Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct and RDMA

With the uprise in Hyperconverged technology it is interesting to see how the different vendors in the market has embraced different architectures in their implementation . I’ve previously blogged about how VMware, Microsoft and Nutanix has done this –> http://msandbu.org/storage-warshci-edition/ Now therefore I decided to dig a bit deeper into the way Microsoft has implemented …

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Storage Wars–HCI edition

There is alot of fuzz these days around hyperconverged, software defined storage etc.. especially since VMware announced VSAN 6.2 earlier this week, that trigge alot of good old brawling on social media. Since VMware was clearly stating that they are the marked leader in the HCI marked, if that is true or not I don’t …

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Setting up Storage Spaces Direct on Windows Server 2016 TP3

This is a step-by-step guide on how to setup a minimal Storage Spaces direct cluster on virtual machines running on Vmware workstation. It is also meant to enlighten people abit about the functionality which Microsoft is coming with and what it is lacking at the moment. Important thing to remember about Storage Spaces Direct it …

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