Hyper Converged Storage Windows Server 2016

Hyper converged storage technology has been focused on a converged compute and storage solution in a single server chassis.

Hyper converged storage windows server 2016. I can now publish the setup of my lab configuration which is almost a production platform. Argon systems has developed the ultimate high performance storage solution using storage spaces direct on windows server 2016. Optionally it can also have software defined networking enabled and managed through windows admin center. Windows server storage spaces is software defined storage.

It simplifies the deployment and management of software defined storage systems and unlocks the use of new classes of disk devices such as sata ssd and nvme disk devices. Or in other words it is storage virtualization for windows server. Leveraging windows server 2016 for hyperconvergence hyperconverged infrastructure tools in windows server 2016 can support storage sdn and cost savings when building enterprise data centers. All you have to do is to configure the vid and the vswitch.

Configure storage spaces direct the following steps are done on a management system that is the same version as the servers being configured. One of the big hot features in windows server 2016 which has me really excited is storage spaces direct s2d. With s2d you will be able to create a hyper converged private cloud. Storage spaces uses thin provisioning storage can be dynamically added to raid arrays or just a bunch of disks jbod and used as shared storage for hyper v clusters or smb 3 0 scale out file servers sofs.

It is an all flash array configured with nvdimm and nvme hardware and high speed networking components. A hyper converged infrastructure hci consolidates compute and storage into a common set of servers. The convergence of compute and storage. With windows server 2016 the network convergence is easier to deploy than with windows server 2012r2.

For instructions to set up networking for storage spaces direct see windows server 2016 converged nic and guest rdma deployment guide. To manage your cluster as hyper converged infrastructure in windows admin center it needs to be running windows server 2016 or windows server 2019 and have hyper v and storage spaces direct enabled. Now that your hyper v is configured you can create a vm and connect it to the virtual switch.