We're going to take a look at the Storage Bus Cache with
Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2022. This is now
available for standalone servers.
What we're looking at is binding together faster media, SSDs, with slower
media, HDDs, and this can create tiers. This is going to dramatically improve
both read and write performance and keep your operational costs low, in
particular compared to a NAS or a SAN. The rules,
OneDrive must be slow media, HDD. A little more information about
this. You have resiliency, which is set to none or mirror. The
provision mode is shared, which is the default, and this means the
cache will only take a portion of the faster media tier. The exact
percentage, it's configurable.
You have a little button on there that says shared cache percentage.
When you have cache mode, you dedicate the majority of the faster media
tier to caching, as opposed to only a portion of it.
In order to have this, you have to have failover clustering installed already.
So those are the essentials of the storage bus cache capability that we have now for a standalone server in Windows Server 2022.