Storage spaces - for SQL Server Workloads

Storage Spaces

Private, public and hybrid cloud solutions are all part of the plan.

New apps New DevicesData explosion

Cloud computing

Business Intelligence

Storage Spaces enables a new category of cloud storage which delivers

reliability, efficiency, and scalability at dramatically lower price points

Mirror

Space

Mirror

SpaceParity

Space

Mirror

Space

Drive Failure!

Data is rebuilt to multiple drives

simultaneously, using spare capacity

Resiliency

Name

Copies

Maintained

Capacity Loss Deployment Recommendations

Mirror 2 or 3 50% or 67 % All Workloads

Parity 2 or 3 13% or 33% Sequential workloads with large

units of read/write, such as

Archival

Simple 1 No capacity loss

(No redundancy)

Workloads which do not need

resiliency

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Cold DataHot Data

I/O Activity Accumulates

Heat at Sub-File Granularity

Compute Nodes

Cold DataHot Data

I/O Activity Accumulates

Heat at Sub-File Granularity

Compute Nodes

Link to SPA webpages

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http://microsoft.com/msdn

www.microsoft.com/learning http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd

http://microsoft.com/technet

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