Microsoft SOFS is independent of hardware vendor as long as the compute and storage is certified by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Scale-out File Server (SOFS) is considered as a Storage Defined Storage (SDS). Integrated with Microsoft System Center.Provide wizard driven tools for storage related tasks.Single Management Point for all Scale-out File Servers.Outlook Cached location for Citrix XenApp Session Server.Microsoft System Center DPM Storage Target.Storage Spaces Direct (Windows Server 2016)Īzure-consistent storage (Windows Server 2016)įunctional use of Microsoft Scale-Out File Servers:

Rolling cluster upgrades (Windows Server 2016)

Storage Replica (Windows Server 2016) Updates Storage QoS (Windows Server 2016) Replication Performance with tiering Persistent write-back cacheĪutomatic scale-out rebalancing Storage Quality of Service (QoS) Management of file shares Data de-duplicationĬontinuous (via redundancy) Copy offload, Snapshots Scale-out file shares provides the ability to share the same folder from multiple nodes of the same cluster.Microsoft Software Defined Storage offerings compared with third party offering:

Microsoft Software Defined Storage AKA Scale-Out File Server is a feature that is designed to provide scale-out file shares that are continuously available for file-based server application storage. Comprehensive management of storage platform.Management overhead of unstructured data.Migration path from single vendor to multi vendor storage provider.Vendor lock-in contract for physical storage.

Security of file systems is constant concern.

Continuously extending storage on the DFS servers.

Continuous break fix of Distributed File Systems (DFS) & File Server.

Segregation of data between production site and disaster recovery site.

Segregation of production, development and disaster recovery storage.

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