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 8 to multiple computers. Historically, this...

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 Provider to manage a storage subsystem (array) in...

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 costs. Improved storage management related capabilities...

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/introduction-to-smi-s.aspx   And covers the...

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 in this whitepaper: Introduction: Managing...

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 to the consumer preview. The list below is intended...

  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