Someone asked me for a good collection of links about SMB3 Networking, including SMB Multichannel, SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) and SMB Performance.
Here’s what I offered:
SMB Multichannel
- TechEd 2012 - SMB Multichannel and NIC Teaming (SMB Multichannel covered on the second half)
- Jose’s Blog - The basics of SMB Multichannel, a feature of Windows Server 2012 and SMB 3.0
- TechNet Radio - SMB Multi-channel Basics for Windows Server 2012 and SMB 3.0 (October 8th 2012)
- Jose’s Blog - Troubleshooting File Server Networking Issues in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Jose's Blog - Networking configurations for Hyper-V over SMB in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
- TechEd 2014 NA - DCIM-B337 - File Server Networking for a Private Cloud Storage Infrastructure in Windows Server 2012 R2 (includes overview of the Hyper-V over SMB scenario in Windows Server 2012 R2 with focus on Networking features)
SMB Direct
- TechEd 2012 - SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA) and Cluster-in-a-box (SMB direct covered on the second half)
- TechNet – Deploy SMB Direct with InfiniBand Network Adapters
- TechNet – Deploy SMB Direct with RoCE Network Adapters
- TechNet – Deploy SMB Direct with Ethernet (iWARP) Network Adapters
SMB Performance
- Jose's Blog - MMS 2013 Demo: Hyper-V over SMB at high throughput with SMB Direct and SMB Multichannel
- Jose’s Blog - Hyper-V over SMB – Performance considerations
- TechEd 2013 - MDC-B335 - Understanding the Hyper-V over SMB Scenario, Configurations, and End-to-End Performance (includes new SMB features in Windows Server 2012 R2)
- Jose’s Blog - DiskSpd, PowerShell and storage performance: measuring IOPs, throughput and latency for both local disks and SMB file shares
- Jose’s Blog - Using file copy to measure storage performance – Why it’s not a good idea and what you should do instead
Performance White Papers
- Windows Server 2012 File Server Performance with EchoStreams FlacheSAN2 and Mellanox ConnectX-3: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38432
- Windows File Server SMB SQL OLTP Performance: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36793
- Building High Performance Storage for Hyper-V Cluster on Scale-Out File Servers using Violin Windows Flash Arrays: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44300
- Microsoft Cloud Platform System Storage Performance: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2015/03/09/microsoft-cloud-platform-system-storage-performance-overview-now-available.aspx
SMB Encryption
- TechNet Radio - SMB 3.0 Encryption Overview (November 26th 2012)
SMB Signing
- Jose’s Blog - The Basics of SMB Signing (covering both SMB1 and SMB2)