New post on Windows Server Blog - Windows Server “8” – Taking Server Application Storage to Windows File Shares

First published on TECHNET on Mar 15, 2012
Windows Server "8" Beta just became available and it includes a lot of new features in File and Storage Services. The Windows Server blog just released a post detailing a lot of the new File Server capabilities and scenarios included in the new release.

Here's an outline of the post:

• Background
  
• Enabling server application storage on file shares
  - Continuous availability
  - Performance
  - Scalability
  - Data protection
  
• Features overview
  - SMB Transparent Failover
  - SMB Multichannel
  - SMB Direct
  - SMB Scale-Out
  - VSS for SMB File Shares
  - SMB-specific Windows PowerShell cmdlets
  - SMB Performance Counters
  - Performance
  
• Deployment modes
  - Single-node File Server
  - Dual-node File Server
  - Multi-node File Server
  
• Conclusion

We encourage you to visit the Windows Server Blog right now and read all the details. The post is at
http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/03/15/windows-server-8-taking-server-application-storage-to-windows-file-shares.aspx