New Storage Features in Windows Server 2022. This is what we're going to cover.
Storage service improvements,
just the general improvements for storage service in this new operating system,
and the storage bus cache is now available for standalone
servers, so we're going to take a look at that.
Let's begin by looking at storage service improvements.
We're going to cover storage service improvements in Windows Server 2022.
First, the Storage Migration Service.
This is how you can migrate local users and groups to a new server.
You can migrate storage from failover clusters,
and migrate to failover clusters,
and migrate between standalone servers and failover clusters.
This allows easier synchronization of migrated shares
into Azure by using the Azure File Sync.
If you have a new network in Microsoft Azure, you can migrate there as well.
And lastly, you can migrate NetApp Common Internet File System,
or CIFS servers, from NetApp Fabric‑Attached Storage arrays.
So with the Storage Migration Service,
migrating your files has become quite a bit easier.
Both from clusters to Azure, different networks,
different clusters, migrating your files has never been easier than they are now.
Another advancement is the Storage Spaces repair service.
This can enumerate storage pools that are read‑only and offer to recover them.
You can find storage spaces that are set for manual
attachment and it will attach them.
It repairs any unhealthy storage spaces,
displays unhealthy physical disks so you can know
about it before you have a problem,
and a new feature in Storage Spaces Direct can offer control over the
data resync process by allocating resources to either,
which gives you resiliency, or run active workloads for performance improvements.
This gives you more flexibility and more efficiency in servicing your clusters.
Last thing to look at, the Resilient File System file‑level snapshots.
You need ReFS 3.7 for this.
This is used in virtual machine backup scenarios with virtual hard drives.
It uses a quick metadata operation that takes a
constant time irrespective of file size.
In order to get all this functionality,
you just use the familiar utility ReFSUtil.
So that is a look at the storage improvements for Windows Server 2022.
Up next,
we're going to look at the storage bus cache with Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2022.