QuickSpecs

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage

Standard Features

Operating System

Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012, Standard Edition

Windows Storage Server 2012 (WSS2012) includes a robust range of file serving and storage capabilities. It addresses heterogeneous file workload environments and enables more efficient storage utilization. It allows for a flexible mix of configurations and includes advanced data management tools. WSS2012 leverages your Windows Server management skill sets and tools including Active Directory, PowerShell and System Center.

SMB 3.0: Leverage high performance continually available file shares to deliver feature-rich storage for continuously available file services, business-critical applications and virtual servers using advanced new functionality.

New VHDX Standard: Deploy larger capacity virtual storage that can grow to 16 terabytes, is more resilient against corruption, and provides more efficient usage of new 4 KB sector hard disks with the new VHDX virtual storage standard.

Live Storage Migration: Maintain maximized service-level availability even while moving virtual machine storage between host servers independent of the actual virtual machine.

SMB Multi-channel: Enable aggregation of network bandwidth and network fault tolerance when multiple paths are available between SMB clients and file servers.

NFS v4.1: For Windows Storage Server 2012, Server for NFS has been updated to support continuous availability. These improvements make it possible to reliably store and run VMware ESX on a virtual machine that is running Windows Server 2012 by using the NFS protocol to share files. Additional improvements in failover clustering take advantage of better resilience to hardware and software outages that may afflict individual cluster nodes. At the same time, failover clustering isolates VMware ESX hypervisor hosts from intermittent glitches during failovers.

Data Deduplication: Data deduplication enables Windows Storage Server 2012 to store more data in less physical space and achieve storage efficiency that is significantly higher than was possible in previous releases of Windows Storage Server that used Single Instance Storage (SIS) or NTFS file system compression. Data deduplication uses variable size chunking and compression, which deliver optimization ratios of 2:1 for general file servers and up to 20:1 for virtualization data. Evaluate your savings with the Deduplication Evaluation Tool.

Volume Shadow Copy Service: Creates point-in-time copies (snapshots) of files and folders at predetermined time intervals that can then be accessed from client computers.

VSS for Remote SMB File Shares: Leverage proven Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to offload snapshot and backup operations to remote storage from VSS hardware providers within Hyper-V virtual machines.

Hosted Branch Cache: Using client/server architecture, Windows 7 and above client computers can cache content on the local network via the Hosted Cache running on the 3PAR StoreServ File Controller. Other clients who need the same content retrieve it directly from the Hosted Cache.

DFS Namespaces: Enables you to group shared folders that are located on different servers into one or more logically structured namespaces. Each namespace appears to users as a single shared folder with a series of subfolders. However, the underlying structure of the namespace can consist of numerous file shares that are located on different servers and in multiple sites.

Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R): Enables you to efficiently replicate folders (including those referred to by a DFS namespace path) across multiple servers and sites. DFS Replication uses a compression algorithm known as remote differential compression (RDC). RDC detects changes to the data in a file, and it enables DFS Replication to replicate only the changed file blocks instead of the entire file.

File Server Resource Manager (FSRM): File Server Resource Manager is a set of features that allow you to manage and classify data that is stored on file servers. File Server Resource Manager includes the following features:

Storage reports: Storage reports are used to help you identify trends in disk usage and how

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