Storage Spaces - Next Generation Virtualized Storage for Windows | SNIA

Abstract

Storage Spaces is a new virtualized storage capability in Windows that allows storage resources to be pooled and then exposed to the system as thinly provisioned virtual disks. Pools can be clustered across multiple machines to provide appropriate levels of resiliency and availability. Although “Storage Spaces” has been described previously in a blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/05/virtualizing-storage-for-s...) and presented at the 2011 BUILD conference (http://www.buildwindows.com/Sessions/Speaker/Surendra-Verma), this presentation will be a technical drill-down directed at an audience of storage engineers, with more depth and detail than provided previously.

Learning Objectives

Understand the motivations behind some of the design choices for Storage Spaces.
Understand how to use the features of Storage Spaces.
Understand how to build systems that leverage the capabilities of Storage Spaces.