Lenovo N4610 Product Manual page 4

The N4610 uses Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 operating system is based on Windows Server 2012 R2
core technologies and is optimized for providing block- and file-level storage services to the users and
server applications. The following components and capabilities are included in Windows Storage Server
2012 R2:
Storage protocols:
iSCSI Software Target offers low-cost shared storage for applications that require block-level
access to it.
SMB File Services provide network shares for the Windows-based user and server application
environments:
Microsoft SQL Server supports placement of log and data files onto an SMB network
share (SQL over SMB).
Microsoft Hyper-V supports placement of virtual machine files onto an SMB network
share (Hyper-V over SMB).
Network File System (NFS) File Services provide network shares for the Linux- or Mac-based
user or Linux-based server application environments. VMware vSphere virtual machine files
can be placed onto an NFS network share.
Availability and performance:
Microsoft iSCSI Software Target supports Multipath I/O (MPIO) which allows iSCSI clients to
use multiple network paths to a storage server for high availability, fault tolerance, and load
balancing purposes.
SMB Multichannel allows the use of multiple redundant network paths between application
server SMB clients and SMB file shares that are hosted on Windows Storage Servers for
better throughput while maintaining network availability.
Vendor-independent network teaming allows combining of multiple network interfaces into a
single fault-tolerant or load-balancing group for better performance and availability.
NTFS in Windows Server 2012 R2 improves availability by performing online corruption
scanning, the use of self-healing techniques, and reducing file system repair times.
Data management:
Data Deduplication can help to significantly improve the efficiency of storage space usage.
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for SMB file shares allows backup operations by using
the snapshots of remote file shares that are supporting SMB-based server applications (for
example, SQL over SMB).
DFS Replication provides synchronization capabilities across limited bandwidth network
connections in the distributed environments.
Microsoft BranchCache® optimizes the use of WAN links by caching the remote data locally
based on predefined policies.
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