Sparticus13 wrote:
It's good to know Infiniband is supported in 5.1. All of our blade servers run Windows Server as that is the platform our web product is built on. Recently we upgraded them all to 2012 from 2008R2. With 2012 there are a host of new storage improvement's. While ZFS may be a better underlying storage system than Storage Spaces is, we choose to use Windows Server for ths SAN to take advantage of its new SMB 3.0, SMB-Direct (RDMA over SMB), and Scale-Out file server features. These features work very well with are blade Widows Servers and I think make the best choice for our environment. I still not entirely sold on the Storage Spaces JBOD solution but I really do like the other features.
Plus MS labs did a test setup using the DataOn JBOD device and 3 Windows Server 2012 nodes with Mellanox adapters and got some pretty amazing IOPS and Bandwidth. Currently the DataOn appliance is certified for Windows Storage Spaces and I believe is the only one that is at the moment.
Does anyone have any ideas about RDMA in Vsphere 5.1 and if it would play nicely with a physical to virtual route?
Thanks!
Good information it's good to see some people are still able to put Microsoft in a good light instead of the old computer company from the 90s.
I think people severely underestimate Windows NTFS file system (which just received a bunch of new changes in 2008 / 2012) and it's not only viable, but one thing people FAIL to realize..
How big is Microsoft? 5,000, 10,000 try ..over 90,000 employees, ALL basically in one place, over 65 billion in revenue.. bottom line is NOT a small company..
What software do people think Microsoft uses? Yeah WINDOWS! NTFS is a GREAT file system, much better than Reiser, ZFS, or any other file system that Linux has to offer... but people don't give Microsoft any credibility.. why? I still haven't figured that out.. I will take a guess that people ASSUME that since windows is generally and publically available it must be an off the shelf generic product.
NOT TRUE!
I work for a 80K plus employees company now.. EXCLUSIVELY Windows, they get along JUST fine... even create products and sell devices that uses Windows every day, so apparently there are many HUGE companies that recogize Windows and NTFS, and don't have issues.
I like to see people post things like this, to REMIND everyone there *IS* still the OS that's been around for almost 40 years...I don't think that's an accident.