MSDN Forum:SQL server performace issue with different storage
Hi Team, We are running same queries on two different SQL servers with version SQL server 2014 whereas we used different storage HP3PAR and NETAPP for both the servers but while execution of the queries for NETAPP storage we are getting wait type…
some virtual disk's goes Retired automatically with out any issue in S2D
Im not sure certain disk's goes Retired im not sure, what is happening this are virtual disk, when I restart the server the same disk will not be in the Pool.. I have to issue the below command $disk = get-physicaldisk | ? CanPool…
Server 2019: Files not inheriting permissions after move
By design, when a user moves a file within a volume, the NTFS permissions (ACL) moves with the file. This is different from a copy operation where the destination file will inherit permissions that are set by the target folder. In my case, the volume…
DFS Shares going offline after user's device was converted over to folder redirection
Hello, Having a hard time trying to figure out the fix on this issue that's been going. We have two file servers (we will be consolidating it down to one, but that's a project for another time). Both of these file servers live in Azure One file…
Is it possible to script ISCSI MCS connection setup?
Hello - When I set up servers, I typically script as much of the setup as possible to make them as consistent as possible. I have powershell that I use to set up ISCSI MPIO that works for most scenarios that require multiple connections. I recently came…
Storage Space direct cluster colum Count confusion
I have 3 nodes, joined to cluster and created storage space and a volume.. Each node has 3 HDD disks, each 1 TB and created a volumes look at the image, why 1gb size is taken as 3.94 GB and column count is 4, i have only 3 disk per node, how…
ReFS Integrity Streams and Data Deduplication
We recently had some corruption on one of our file servers and we thought it should have healed itself, though it didn't. We found something interesting that we wanted to get confirmation on. We had a 12 bay server populated with 10 SAS HDD's and 2 SAS…
NFS + Storage Spaces?
Hi all, how are you? I have a very weird issue here, in one hand, I have a physical disk HDD with 500GB NTFS, with a NFS Shared folder with anonymous connection and works well (for create files, modify, etc). In the other hand, I have a Storage Pool…
Mapped Network Drive Randomly Disconnects - Have to switch between Netbios name and FQDN to be able to connect to server
I have a user who has mapped drives to a share on a server. For some reason every couple of days her drives disconnect. Logging off and back on and restarting do not solve the connection issue. In fact we have to disconnect and re-map the drives to get…
Disabling Bitlocker on Storage Replica Clustered disk
Hi, I have a Server 2016 stretched cluster running Storage Replica to replicate a volume from site A to site B. The replicated volume has Bitlocker enabled. We've recently implemented encryption at the SAN layer, so now want to remove Bitlocker.…
Windows 2016 Deduplication
We run a files server around 3TB on Windows 2016. Free space is ending and there are no additional disk slots. Our IT budget is tight and purchasing new servers is not an option. I have red, that Windows has deduplication feature. Is it worth installing?…
Windows 2019 files on disk not showing up
I just coped about 1TB of data from a 2016 Filer Server to a 2019 file Server - 1 large folder and its contents On source server Size 898 GB 545k files 135k folders On dest server Size 9.25GB 9k files 5k folders On Dest Server Volume shows…
Does Storage Replica require VSS?
The "Server-to-server storage replication with Storage Replica" page says: "We strongly recommend enabling Volume Shadow Copies and periodically taking snapshots with VSSADMIN or your other tools of choice. This will guarantee applications…
Mirror Accelerated Parity with DAS in Cluster Storage
I couldn't find a clear answer online on if a mirror accelerated parity was supported when using a 2 host fail over cluster with shared DAS storage. This is not a S2D setup.
Can Storage Replica use WinRM over https?
On the Storage Replica documentation it lists one of the Pre-requisites as "Appropriate firewall and router rules to allow ICMP, SMB (port 445, plus 5445 for SMB Direct) and WS-MAN (port 5985) bi-directional traffic between all nodes." …
workstation service is broken
can someone help me fix it? Hello?
How to find ISCSI target LUN - by cmd or powershell or...by ...whatever?
Hi, I wonder what is the way to find out Iscsi Target's LUN? In a command like Iscsicli there are options to include this parameter, but... how to get it? GUI or cmd/powershell? Anyone? Reference: …
After a random period of time of many days or even weeks, RD users begin to get “File Cannot be Opened” errors via mapped drives on SMB Shares.
Setup as follows: Windows 2019 RDS with manually created persistent drive mappings on Windows 2016 File Server. ERP software with flat file databases is stored on the file server and runs through these mappings, so there is a lot of SMB network traffic…
Failover Cluster/Hyper-V Machines/Cluster Storage Volume/Status_Connection_Disconnected
2 Node Failover Cluster with S2D, Hyper-V Machines' vhdx active on Cluster Shared Volume. Issue: CSV "Storage Name" consistently enters pause state due to Status_Connection_Disconnected. RHSCall::DeadlockMonitor: Call ISALIVE timed out…
Storage Spaces, BitLocker not accepting recovery key
As a bit of context, I have a server running Server 2019 with a storage pool using local hard disks, been running fine for a year or so. Previously replaced disks without any issues. At the end of last week, I needed to upgrade a disk, so I added the…