Chapter 10. Storage Features by Windows Product Release Cycles

   

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The previous chapters explained the Windows architecture behind the particular storage feature of interest within that particular chapter. This chapter is dedicated to storage professionals who fancy their knowledge to be complete with respect to storage technology, but are looking for details of storage features that have appeared or will appear with particular releases of the Windows Server operating system.

More importantly, this chapter also contains some forward-looking statements that may or may not turn out to be true. I want to emphasize that the chapter assumes that features discussed by Microsoft will ship. Indeed, there is no guarantee that they will ship, let alone when and whether the functionality and architecture will be as described in this book. ^[1] The reader should take all of this into account before making any decisions.

^[1] Microsoft makes it clear that product features will be decided on the basis of multiple factors and that no particular feature can be guaranteed to ship in a forthcoming release. Microsoft states that the only certain way of ascertaining which features exist in a particular release is to study that product after it has been released.

This chapter attempts to describe storage features by Windows cycle, but the Microsoft release process can sometimes make the discussion confusing. Very often, key features are developed for a particular release of Windows NT but are also made available for prior version(s) of Windows NT. In such cases, the feature is still reported as shipping with the newer version of Windows NT.

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