Hello everyone,

I do have a very strange issue with my file server. Let me first describe the infrastructure.

OS: Windows Server 2016
Roles: File and Storage Services
Type: Member of a 2016 Domain

On the file server I do have to following structure/permission:

• F:\
  • ANWDTest
    • ZZZ
      • DIMS
      • Wagenbuch

The NTFS permissions to those folders is like that:

• ANWDTest
  Inheritance disabled
  CREATOR OWNER - Full control - Subfolders and files only
  SYSTEM - Full control - This folder, subfolders and files
  Administrators - Full control - This folder, subfolders and files
  L_NTFS_J_R - Read & execute - This folder only
  
  
• ZZZ
  Inheritance enabled
  L_NTFS_J_ZZZ_R - Read & execute - This folder only
  
  
• DIMS
  Inheritance enabled
  L_NTFS_J_ZZZ_DIMS_R - Read & execute - This folder, subfolders and files
  L_NTFS_J_ZZZ_DIMS_W - Modify - This folder, subfolders and files
  
  
• Wagenbuch
  Inheritance enabled
  L_NTFS_J_ZZZ_Wagenbuch_R - Read & execute - This folder, subfolders and files
  L_NTFS_J_ZZZ_Wagenbuch_W - Modify - This folder, subfolders and files

So far I think this is nothing special, now here is my issue:

When I delete the "Wagenbuch" or the "DIMS" folder this does remove the group "L_NTFS_J_ZZZ_R" from the "ZZZ" folder AND does remove the group "L_NTFS_J_R" from the "ANWDTest" folder... and I do have absolutly no idea why this is happening.

Does anyone see an error in the setup or did face similar issues? I am totally lost here, even no idea where to start searching.. Google did also not help at all.

Thanks for the support!

UPDATE 1: To be sure that is not an issue of our file server - I did setup the same structure on an other 2016 server, and did face the same issue.

UPDATE 2: In the meantime I did the same setup on a 2012 R2 server and there is no issue at all, so this seems to be related to Server 2016.

UPDATE 3: I just did a test setup of the brand new 2019 server - I do have the exact same error as on server 2016.

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I have an environment with 2012 Essentials that's running as a DC/File server.
I'll call this server A.
I'm planning to add server B that's 2019 standard that'll also be running as a DC/File server.

I'd like to setup a failover for the file server piece so that if one of the servers fails, 
the users can use the other server.
Server B will be the primary file server and only when server B goes down, server A will be used.

The manual method would be to use a robocopy (robocopy server B's files to server A on a regular basis) and when server B goes down, re-map users' share drives (via logon script, gpo etc) to point to server A.
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Is there a more automated way of accomplishing the above?  Would DFS replication work for the above scenario?
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Connect-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "Virtual Disk Name"

Connect-VirtualDisk : Failed
Activity ID: {characters}
At line:1 char:1
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified:(StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/...SFT_VirtualDisk) [Connect-VirtualDisk], CimE xception
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Hello everyone.

I have two nodes configuration for Storage Spaces Direct.

The servers were built following the R730xd Dell Matrix Compatibility with S2D with certified components, firmwares and drivers.

Everything goes fine with its configuration until I enabled S2D and checked the Storage Tiers created:It only created Capacity Storage Tier. My current configuration per server (both identical in every component) is:

- Cache: 4 x SSD Dell Enterprise 1.98 TB

- Storage: 8 x HDD Dell Enterprise 8 TB

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Enabling S2D shows in the final validation report that the SSD's are marked as "Disk Used for Cache memory" with an asterisk. Also after creating the pool all the disk are selected and SSD's are marked as Journal, getting all the free space for themselves, and HDD's are marked as Auto-Select with almost all the free space available.

But after this I have checked the Storage Tiers created and only Capacity is showing. No Performance Storage Tier was created for the cache SSD's. I tried creating it manually but no free space is available for this storage tier when trying to create a new virtual disk.

PS C:\Users\xx> get-storagetier -friendlyname capacity, performance | fl *


Usage                  : Data
ProvisioningType       : Fixed
AllocationUnitSize     : Auto
MediaType              : HDD
FaultDomainAwareness   : StorageScaleUnit
ColumnIsolation        : PhysicalDisk
NumberOfColumns        : Auto
NumberOfGroups         : 1
ParityLayout           :
ObjectId               : {1}\\S2D_CLUSTER\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StorageTier.Object
                         806d0-73d2-4312-9a54-7238280672d4}:ST:{a39a3509-81e6-49f5-81a5-3e3228700390}{3da1103b-
                         4-8dc5-daab62bb5584}"
PassThroughClass       :
PassThroughIds         :
PassThroughNamespace   :
PassThroughServer      :
UniqueId               : {3da1103b-921a-4ef4-8dc5-daab62bb5584}
AllocatedSize          : 0
Description            :
FootprintOnPool        : 0
FriendlyName           : Capacity
Interleave             : 262144
NumberOfDataCopies     : 2
PhysicalDiskRedundancy : 1
ResiliencySettingName  : Mirror
Size                   : 0
PSComputerName         :
CimClass               : ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage:MSFT_StorageTier
CimInstanceProperties  : {ObjectId, PassThroughClass, PassThroughIds, PassThroughNamespace...}
CimSystemProperties    : Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimSystemProperties

Usage                  : Data
ProvisioningType       : Fixed
AllocationUnitSize     : Auto
MediaType              : SSD
FaultDomainAwareness   : StorageScaleUnit
ColumnIsolation        : PhysicalDisk
NumberOfColumns        : Auto
NumberOfGroups         : 1
ParityLayout           :
ObjectId               : {1}\\S2D_CLUSTER\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StorageTier.Object
                         806d0-73d2-4312-9a54-7238280672d4}:ST:{a39a3509-81e6-49f5-81a5-3e3228700390}{c31c5599-
                         6-ae68-dbcb568704df}"
PassThroughClass       :
PassThroughIds         :
PassThroughNamespace   :
PassThroughServer      :
UniqueId               : {c31c5599-f6e4-4b76-ae68-dbcb568704df}
AllocatedSize          : 0
Description            :
FootprintOnPool        : 0
FriendlyName           : Performance
Interleave             : 262144
NumberOfDataCopies     : 2
PhysicalDiskRedundancy : 1
ResiliencySettingName  : Mirror
Size                   : 0
PSComputerName         :
CimClass               : ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage:MSFT_StorageTier
CimInstanceProperties  : {ObjectId, PassThroughClass, PassThroughIds, PassThroughNamespace...}
CimSystemProperties    : Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimSystemProperties

Could anyone help me out with this issue?

Thanks in advance.

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FriendlyName               SerialNumber         CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage            Size
------------               ------------         ------- ----------------- ------------ -----            ----
WDC WD30EZRX-00DC0B0       W -DCW1C0T180355     False   Starting          Unknown      Unknown       2.73 TB
ST3000DM001-1CH166         W1F4425B             False   Starting          Unknown      Unknown       2.73 TB
WDC WD30EZRX-00DC0B0       WD-WCC1T0815338      False   Starting          Unknown      Unknown       2.73 TB
WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0       WD-WCAWZ0808067      False   Starting          Unknown      Unknown       2.73 TB
ST3000DM001-1ER166         Z5005NAB             False   Starting          Unknown      Unknown       2.73 TB
WDC WD30EZRX-00DC0B0       WD-WCC1T0875478      False   Starting          Unknown      Unknown       2.73 TB
ST3000DM001-1CH166         W1F42DE9             False   Starting          Unknown      Unknown       2.73 TB
WDC WD30EZRX-00DC0B0       WD-WCC1T0764305      False   Starting          Unknown      Unknown       2.73 TB
WDC WD30EZRX-00DC0B0       WD-WCC1T0875885      False   Starting          Unknown      Unknown       2.73 TB
SAMSUNG MZVLV128HCGR-00000 0000_0000_0000_0000. False   OK                Healthy      Auto-Select 119.24 GB

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