Hello,   I’ve just posted two new modules for Windows PowerShell that I wrote which are designed to help with the management and diagnosis of Storage Spaces.   These modules are;   StorageSpaces This module automates deployment of Storage...

As an introduction to some of the major improvements in managing your storage via PowerShell in the Windows 8, I wanted to give a comparison of how you would go through the process of creating a bootable USB disk such as would be done for deploying Windows...

Last year, I had posted an article on how to view SMART data from a disk to determine the health of the disk on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2;   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/san/archive/2011/08/11/have-you-ever-wanted-to-know-if-your-disk-is-going...

We hope you had an opportunity to look at the ISO Mounting Windows 8 Blog post . Native support for accessing ISO/VHD files was one of the most requested features for Windows 8. In Windows 8, you can directly mount ISO/VHD files from Windows Explorer...

Our guide on creating a DSM for MPIO for storage developers for Windows Server 2012 is now available at the link below:   http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30454   Thanks,   Bruce

The fully updated version of the users guide for MPIO on Windows Server 2012 is now available here:   http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30450       Thanks,   Bruce

Managing iSCSI Initiator Connections Updated: 9/18/2012 This post covers iSCSI Initiator connection management using the Iscsi module for Windows PowerShell available with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. Note: For additional details...

Installing and Managing MPIO using PowerShell: This post is intended as an overview of capabilities present in the MPIO module for managing MPIO on Windows Server 2012. Note: The MPIO feature is available on Windows Server 2012 versions only. Use of the...

Managing local Windows Storage This post covers basic provisioning operations against local Windows storage resources using the Storage module for Windows PowerShell. Note: I will cover using the Storage module in combination with a Storage Management...

Understanding Custom object views in the Storage Module for Windows PowerShell Before I delve into the actual usage of the cmdlets present in the Storage module, I wanted to explain a bit about how the parameters and information are displayed. The default...

Be sure to check out the excellent TechEd video “ Standards Support and Interoperability in Windows Server 2012: Storage, Networking, and Management ” here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2012/WSV308 Pointers to some specific sections of...

Introducing the Windows Storage Management API (SMAPI) Windows® Server 2012 delivers capabilities to enable significantly improved storage management. By doing so, Windows customers will enjoy the benefits of decreased management complexity and associated...

Jeff Goldner has posted an introduction to the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) for storage management that covers the following topics.  This post is available here:   http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/06/25...

Our newest whitepaper, which details how to deploy and manage Storage Spaces in the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate is now available at the link below:   http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30125 Here is a list of the sections...

I wanted to make sure everyone has seen this excellent blog posting from Robert Smith in Premier Field Engineering (PFE), on using the WPT to get to the bottom of performance issues with the Storage Stack. Please check out his post and use this the next...

Updated: 7/1/2012 As it can be difficult to locate all of our public content related to Storage and FileSystems on various Microsoft sites for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server “8” beta, I wanted to provide a list of documentation related...

Jeffery Hicks has posted a great article on managing system restore points via PowerShell here: http://mcpmag.com/articles/2012/02/21/powershell-windows-restore.aspx -Bruce

Last updated 2/22/2012   In the Microsoft Multipath I/O Step by Step guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 two new MPIO registry keys were introduced ( UseCustomPathRecoveryInterval and PathRecoveryInterval ) to mitigate a transient error. We issued post...

For those of you eager for more Windows 8 related news, there is a new blog posting from Thomas Pfenning , at the link below that details improvements in Storage and Continuous Availability for Windows Server 8: http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud...

In response to my recent post about the updated guidelines for Windows disk timeouts , the Exchange Server team has released  updated guidance on disk timeout settings with Exchange Server deployments. The article, titled “Windows Disk Timeouts and...

  Jeffrey Snover has posted a great blog here about what is coming in Storage Management: http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2011/10/14/windows-server-8-standards-based-storage-management.aspx

This is the second in a series of posts on how to utilize PowerShell to easily collect system information useful for troubleshooting Storage issues. Note: In a later installment of this series, I’ll be showing how to utilize the information gathered in...

Since the information on TechNet and MSDN can unfortunately be quite spread out, I wanted to post this consolidated list of resources for Storage driver developers, to keep this in one location.   Storage Devices Reference on MSDN The section includes...

Updated: 6/7/2012 As a result of some internal discussions around this, I decided that a blog post was long overdue on this topic, as the ramifications of setting the timeout value for Disk.sys are not commonly understood completely, and can lead to long...

This will be part of a series of posts on how to utilize PowerShell to easily collect system information useful for troubleshooting Storage issues. In my first installment, we will cover the collection of currently installed Hotfixes, and collection of...