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Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Best Practices Guide
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Introduction
Terminology
Hardware best practices
SMB client servers
Recommended switches
Storage
Rack requirements
Networking best practices
IP address requirements
Subnet requirements
Network Interface Cards
Remote Direct Memory Access
Windows Server 2012 R2 best practices
MPIO configuration
Windows Server 2012 R2 SMB considerations
UNMAP command
Configuring Windows Server updates
Storage Spaces best practices
Storage pools
Configuring storage pools for rebuilds
Virtual disks (Storage Spaces)
Column count
Interleave size
Storage tiers
Enclosure awareness
Write-back cache
Journal disks
Adding disk space to a storage pool
Cluster best practices
Cluster shared volumes
Cluster shared volumes cache
Cluster quorum
Scale-Out File Server best practices
Scale-Out File Share usage
Creating file shares
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