Exchange 2013 Storage, High Availability and Site Resilience

Here is an excellent slide on Exchange 2013 Storage, High Availability and Site Resilience.

Some of the key features are as follows.

Passive copy DB on 2013 consumes 50% of the iops of the iops required for an active copy.

Autoreseed - Can use spare disks. Periodically scan for failed and suspended copies, check pre-requisites,allocate remap a spare, start the seed, verify health, alert admin about failed disk.

Data Center Failover can be automated.