Preferred Platform for Storage

1. Preferred Platform for Storage John Loveall Group Program Manager WDEG, Storage Devices jloveall @ microsoft.com Microsoft Corporation

2. Session Outline • Storage Devices: Industry, trends, and strategy • Overview by key strategy • Storage fabrics • Personal storage • Optical platform • Preferred storage platform

3. Session Goals • Attendees should leave this session with the following: • Understanding of the key strategies for Windows Storage Devices • Including the industry background and technology trends they are based on • Overview of the Storage Track sessions and how they map to the strategies • Summary of Windows Storage Devices feature roadmap

4. Storage: Investment, Innovation, and Demand Innovation • Storage Area Network cost and manageability • $/GB falling, GB/device rising Investment • $1B+ Venture Capital each year since 2000 • Major platform players all making significant, ongoing investments • New connectivity, new form factors, new scenarios Storage devices are changing the platform Demand • Reference data growth • IT cost/efficiency • Digital media

5. Storage: Investment Investment • $1B+ Venture Capital each year since 2000 • Major platform players all making significant, ongoing investments Storage Venture Capital investment 2000-2004(Source: StorageSearch)

6. Storage: Innovation Innovation • Storage Area Network cost and manageability • $/GB falling, GB/device rising • New connectivity, new form factors, new scenarios Cost of Storage(source: IBM) iSCSI Adapter Growth(source: IDC)

7. Storage: Demand Transition to Reference Information(source: Enterprise Storage Group) Demand • Reference data growth • IT cost/efficiency • Digital media Optical Drive Adoption In PC’s(source: NPD Techworld)

8. Storage Devices: Inflection Points • IP-based SANs lower purchase costs • Availability of simple installation and management tools SMORG server storage primarily fabrics of efficiently managed modular storage devices SMORG server storage primarily direct-attached (DAS) Storage FabricsServer/Enterprise • Multi-gigabyte flash memory with steep cost reductions • High-bandwidth device connectivity • Inexpensive micro-drive technologies Small storage capacities used to cache data for later offloading to a PC Personal storage supports portability at the application and system level Personal Storage Client/Consumer • DVD devices break records for speed of technology adoption • Digital media playback and authoring become mainstream applications Optical storage devices are part of the platform, enabling mainstream application innovation Optical storage devices supported per application for specialized media uses Optical Platform Client/Consumer New Generation What’s Changing? Previous Generation

9. Storage Devices: Key Windows Strategies Storage FabricsServer/Enterprise Personal StorageClient/Consumer Optical PlatformClient/Consumer Preferred Storage Platform Partner/Customer Leading platform supporting storage fabrics Optimized platform features enabling new customer scenarios in Personal Storage Timely, comprehensive, quality platform support for optical devices Preferred platform for developing, integrating, and deploying storage devices

10. Storage Fabrics Storage FabricsServer/Enterprise Feature Roadmap • iSCSI • Currently: Out of Band Release (on Web) • iSNS 3.0 – December 2004 • High availability through MSCS resource DLL • iSCSI v2.0 – “Osaka” • Integrated MS-MPIO • MS iSCSI DSM supports standards-conformant iSCSI targets • Updates to support VDS 1.1 • Improved UI • Error Recovery Levels 1 and 2 • Planned for Windows codenamed “Longhorn”: It’s in the box • Client (iSCSI) and Server (iSCSI & iSNS server) • Internet Authentication Service (IAS) Radius plug-in for iSCSI centralized security management

11. Storage Fabrics Storage FabricsServer/Enterprise Feature Roadmap • MPIO: Microsoft Multipath Solution • Currently: Out of Band Release (on Web) • Updated DDK (1.13) – March 2005 • Including VDS 1.1 updates • New sample DSM (iSCSI) • Planned for Longhorn Server:It’s in the box • Industry standard solution • Includes support for Active/Active arrays • Supports Asymmetric A/A (SPC-3 compliant) • Load balancing with MSCS clusters • DDK still available • Investigating shipping 3rd party DSMs

12. Storage Fabrics Storage FabricsServer/Enterprise • WinHEC: Related sessions • iSCSI Momentum, Deployments, and Future: Parts 1 & 2 • Simplifying SAN Deployments on Windows

13. Personal Storage Personal StorageClient/Consumer Feature Roadmap • Longhorn SD (Secure Digital) Enhancements • Performance enhancements • Investigating features including DMA and high speed SD • Power management features • CMD6 (SWITCH) support

14. Personal Storage Personal StorageClient/Consumer • WinHEC: Related sessions • USB Flash Drive Standardization Efforts

15. Optical Platform Optical PlatformClient/Consumer Feature Roadmap • Planned for Longhorn: IMAPI v2 • Customer-Driven Changes • Removing IMAPIv1 filter driver • Removing REDBOOK filter driver • Moving IMAPI to 100% user mode • Added exclusive access IOCTL for CDROM devices • Supports scripting clients in IMAPIv2 • Other significant changes for IMAPIv2 • Objects use only public user-mode APIs and interfaces to other objects • Constrains testing effects of bug fixes, changes • Ensures external parties can use these objects • Flexible, separated object model…

16. Preferred Storage Platform Preferred Storage Platform Partner/Customer Feature Roadmap • Planned for Longhorn: Enhanced Device Support • Native SATA support • New ATAport driver • Supports native command queuing (NCQ) • Hotplug • Port multipliers • Message Signal Interrupt support • AHCI V1.1 compliant miniport • SAS • Through Storport miniports • SM-API via WMI (required) • Logo program • Storport enhancements • Message Signal Interrupt support

17. Preferred Storage Platform Preferred Storage Platform Partner/Customer Feature Roadmap • Planned for Longhorn: Scheduled File I/O • Support for glitch-free multimedia • Bandwidth Contract • Megabytes/second • Latency • Not an absolute guarantee • Client-based scenarios • ATAport portdriver • USBstor portdriver

18. Preferred Storage Platform Preferred Storage Platform Partner/Customer Feature Roadmap • Planned for Longhorn: Crashdump • Moved crashdump functionality from kernel image into a service driver • Enabler for future improvements • Dedicated Dumpfiles • Dumpfiles on disks other then the systems disk • Agility in supporting new technologies

19. Preferred Storage Platform Preferred Storage Platform Partner/Customer • WinHEC: Related sessions • The Storage Platform: Defining Leadership • SATA in the Enterprise • Hybrid Hard Drives with Nonvolatile Flash and Longhorn • Emergence of Windows as the Leading Platform for Storage • Track: Roadmap for Best Practices: How to Succeed with Windows

20. Additional WinHEC Opportunities • Storage Ask-The-Expert Session • Monday, after the storage presentations • Staffed by speakers & other team members • The Proceedings CD • White papers

21. Community Resources • Windows Hardware & Driver Central (WHDC) • www.microsoft.com/whdc/default.mspx • Technical Communities • www.microsoft.com/communities/products/default.mspx • Non-Microsoft Community Sites • www.microsoft.com/communities/related/default.mspx • Microsoft Public Newsgroups • www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups • Technical Chats and Webcasts • www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx • www.microsoft.com/webcasts • Microsoft Blogs • www.microsoft.com/communities/blogs

22. Additional Resources • WinHEC Storage Email addressHEC5Stor @ microsoft.com