Storing Data in Windows Server 2022

This chapter is designed to give you a brief understanding of storage technologies and related topics. From a technical point of view, a disk is considered one of the server’s core hardware components. For example, it stores, accesses, provides, and manages digital data, files, and services. That said, you can tell how vital these technologies are in the computer world.

This chapter will teach you about physical interfaces and disk controllers, storing data in a storage medium, and the system types that are used in network environments. Various storage concepts and protocols such as Data Deduplication (Dedup), Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), Software-Defined Storage (SDS), Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and others will be covered in this chapter. Hence, you will learn how to manage a server’s storage using Server Manager...