Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 (TP2) and Storage Quality of Service (QoS)

 

Storage Quality of Service (Storage QoS) is a new feature in the upcoming Windows Server 2016 that provides a way to centrally monitor and manage storage performance for virtual machines. The feature automatically improves storage resource fairness between multiple virtual machines using the same file server cluster and allows specific minimum and maximum performance goals (Storage QoS policies) to be configured in units of normalized 8KB IOPs.

 

 

With the release of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 (TP2), the Storage QoS feature is available for testing. Virtual Machine Manager 2016 TP2 also includes the ability to manage Storage QoS. Find below some important links to review so you can experiment with Storage QoS in Windows Server 2016 TP2:

 

Download link for Windows Server 2016 TP2 and System Center 2016 TP2:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-technical-preview
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-system-center-technical-preview

 

TechNet Guide for Windows Server 2016 TP2 and Storage QoS:

• Storage Quality of Service in Windows Server Technical Preview

 

Microsoft Ignite 2015 session on Windows Server 2016 TP2 and Storage QoS:

• Hyper-V Storage Performance with Storage Quality of Service

 

Storage QoS demos (videos):

• Windows Server 2016 TP2 Storage QoS: PowerShell Monitoring
• Windows Server 2016 TP2 Storage QoS: Managing policies with VMM
• Windows Server 2016 TP2 Storage QoS: Managing Policies with PowerShell
• Windows Server 2016 TP2 Storage QoS: Managing with a PowerShell script

 

Storage QoS script samples

• TechNet: Storage Quality of Service in Windows Server Technical Preview
• Blog: PowerShell script used in the Windows Server 2016 TP2 Storage QoS demo at MSIgnite

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  @Aaron. Script was posted and this blog was updated with a link to it (last link on the page).
• Anonymous
  May 07, 2015
  Nice demo :-) Can you post the PowerShell script you are using in the demo?
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  May 08, 2015
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