Storage Spaces Direct

This charm deploys a service that provides SMB shares

Overview

Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is a revolutionary software defined storage solution included in Windows Server 2016, offering the same advantages of the Storage Spaces feature added in Windows Server 2012 R2 but without the need for shared storage, which previously required large investments in hardware. Storage Spaces Directed is fully supported in OpenStack with Cloudbase Solutions’s Cinder SMB3 driver.

Fault tolerance is achieved by mirroring data across multiple hosts and leveraging the Scale-Out File Server feature integrated with Windows Server Failover Clustering. For optimal performance, SMB Direct / RDMA enabled network adapters are supported to manage storage related traffic with a minimum impact on the host CPUs.