Did you miss our Q4 Webinar on What’s New and What’s Next in Windows Server 2019 with Microsoft and Intel?  Well… fear not, IT Heroes!  Below is a brief & concise summary, along with YouTube timestamps, so you can jump right to whatever piques your interest:

• Cosmos starts; HCI rapidly growing [3:52]
• What’s new for HCI in Windows Server 2019 [11:16]
  1. Deduplication and compression [11:59]
     • Session BRK2231 from Microsoft Ignite 2018
     • Live dedup demo starts @ [48:13]
  2. Scale up to 4PB per cluster [18:42]
  3. Nested resiliency aka RAID 5+1 [22:57]
     • Nested resiliency for Storage Spaces Direct – NEW Microsoft doc!
  4. Full support for persistent memory [29:58]
     • Currently *only* available on S2D HCI
     • MSFT Blog about new IOPS record w/PMEM
  5. Built-in performance history [33:25]
  6. Deeper visibility for drive behavior [39:31] – NEW!
• Intel Optane Technology w/ Alessandro Goncalves [48:48]
  1. What is Intel 3D XPoint technology (Intel Optane technology brand)? [50:00]
  2. Is Intel Optane technology memory or storage? [54:06]
     • Both! Can mix-and-match.
     • Use as cache or memory (in DIMM form factor)
  3. Count IOPS in millions… breaking barriers today with NVMe [58:44]
     • Intel Optane DC NVMe P4800X – is Available Today
  4. Putting it all together [59:45]

Boy, Alessandro and Cosmos sure did a stellar job!  I think the whole webinar can be summarized with this one quote from Cosmos:

“Storage Spaces Direct gets better for
everyone in Windows Server 2019”

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