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4.4 SMI-S
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 and 2016 support SMI-S integration with
SC Series. For more information about this integration, see the
Dell EMC SC Series and SMI-S Integration
with Microsoft SCVMM configuration guide.
4.5 Disaster recovery with Live Volume
Windows Server and Server Clusters including Hyper-V are supported with Live Volume, Live Volume Auto-
failover, Federation, and Volume Advisor. See the Dell EMC SC Series Storage: Synchronous Replication
and Live Volume guide for more information.
4.6 Storage Spaces
Microsoft Storage Spaces was introduced as a new feature in the initial release of Windows Server 2012.
Storage Spaces provided storage virtualization capabilities using readily-available non-enterprise class hard
disks. Storage Spaces allowed for the creation of storage pools using two or more heterogeneous physical
hard drives. A Storage Space (logical drive) can be created from a storage pool, which can be formatted,
partitioned, and used just as a physical disk would be. A Storage Space can be assigned redundancy, such
as mirroring or parity. Storage Spaces is not a SAN replacement. Instead, it offers some SAN-like features
using disparate disks in a JBOD configuration.
Storage Spaces evolved into Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) with Windows Server 2016 and newer as part of
Microsoft’s Windows Server software-defined strategy. Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct are not
compatible with SC Series storage.
4.7 SC Series Replay Manager
Dell Storage Replay Manager is a GUI-based client-server backup and recovery application that leverages
the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to obtain application consistent replays (snapshots) for
specific workloads. These include Windows Server, Hyper-V guest VMs, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft
Exchange, and VMware VMs.
To learn more about Replay Manager see the
Replay Manager Administrators Guide. For additional guidance
with Replay Manager and Hyper-V, see the Dell EMC SC Series Replay Manager 7 and Hyper-V best
practices guide.