Chapter 07. Storage Services

Storage spaces and storage pools

Storage Replica

SMB 3.1.1

iSCSI

iSNS Server

Scale Out File Servers

NFS

Deduplication

Storage Quality of Service

ReFS

Storage related PowerShell cmdlets

Windows Server 2016 provides a number of software defined storage solutions that allow you to have complex storage configurations managed by the Windows Server operating system, rather than having to manage storage solutions using storage hardware specific vendor management tools. Many of the storage service solutions available in Windows Server 2016 are used by Microsoft in their Azure datacenters where storage provisioning, performance, resiliency and redundancy are all managed through software rather than specific hardware devices. ...

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