Links to Storage resources for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Updated: 7/1/2012

As it can be difficult to locate all of our public content related to Storage and FileSystems on various Microsoft sites for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Windows Server “8” beta, I wanted to provide a list of documentation related to the consumer preview.

The list below is intended to be a starting point of available resources from the Storage team.

 

Introductions:

An Introduction to Storage Management in Windows Server 2012
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/san/archive/2012/06/26/an-introduction-to-storage-management-in-windows-server-2012.aspx

Introduction to SMI-S for Storage Management https://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/06/25/introduction-to-smi-s.aspx

   

Technical Guides:

About the Windows Storage Management APIhttps://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Hh830613

Deploy and Manage Storage Spaces using Windows PowerShell https://blogs.msdn.com/b/san/archive/2012/06/12/managing-storage-spaces-using-powershell-whitepaper-is-now-available.aspx

Understand and Troubleshoot Storage Spaces in Windows Server “8” Betahttps://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29002
     

Encrypted Hard Drive Technical Previewhttps://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831627.aspx

Multi-terabyte Volumes Technical Previewhttps://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831536.aspx

Windows Server “8” Beta – Hyper-V over SMB – Quick Provisioning a VM on an SMB FileShare: https://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/03/20/windows-server-8-beta-hyper-v-over-smb-quick-provisioning-a-vm-on-an-smb-file-share.aspx

Windows Server “8” Beta Scale-Out File Server for SQL Server 2012 – Step-by-step Installation:
https://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/03/15/windows-server-8-beta-scale-out-file-server-for-sql-server-2012-step-by-step-installation.aspx

VSS For SMB File Shares
https://blogs.technet.com/b/clausjor/archive/2012/06/14/vss-for-smb-file-shares.aspx       
     

   

PowerShell References:

Storage Management PowerShell cmdlets
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848705.aspx

iSCSI Initiator PowerShell cmdlets
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh826099.aspx

iSCSI Target PowerShell cmdletshttps://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh826097.aspx

iSCSI Block Storage How Guide: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848268.aspx 

MPIO PowerShell cmdlets (Windows 8 Server Preview only)
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh826113.aspx   

Windows PowerShell Reference Sheet for File and Storage Services in Windows Server “8” Beta
https://blogs.technet.com/b/roiyz/archive/2012/03/06/windows-powershell-reference-sheet-for-file-and-storage-services-in-windows-server-8-beta.aspx?Redirected=true

WMI Management references:

Storage Management API – WMI v2 Classes
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh830612(v=vs.85).aspx   

Storage Management WMI Application Sample
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Storage-management-ddef6afc