Tiered Storage with SSD, 15k and 7.2k drives all together?
Just wondering how tiered storage in Server 2012 R2 would handle a mix of 15k and 7.2k HDDs with SSDs in regards to performance. Ideally, I'd love there to be a way to essentially have three tiers, but...
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I received a Windows 2012 Standard server from a vendor that was partially configured. When I fired it up, I set the IP, mask, gateway, etc. I can ping from the console of the server and see my DC,...
View ArticleWhat happens if you exclude a folder from DFS replication? How would users...
We have an "apps" folder that we want to replicate across 4 sites. This way if the user logs in, the login script will map a Z: drive to \\domain.com\dfs\applications.However our Marketing department...
View ArticleFile locked by system
Hi,We are running a few server 2008 r2 64bit standard servers as file shares. Recently we have been having a number of users coming to us with locked files. When we look at the file it is not showing...
View ArticleVolume Shadow Copy Service Terminates Unexpectedly when using Backup Exec and...
Hello We have a virtual server, running Windows Server 2003 R2, that refuses to get its system state and shadow copy components backed up.This is due to the Volume Shadow Copy service terminating...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 - Access Conditions
Domain functional level: 2008 R2 File Server: Server 2012 R2 Trying from a Win7 and Win8 client. Both are in the "Arizona Computers" security group. I shutdown the 2008 DC and have a 2012 R2 DC online...
View ArticleDFS replication 2008R2
Hi,I've got a server replicating from a site over a 1mbps line.The source server hasn't been replicating for 2 weeks due to large video files. after removing the files, I can see from dfsrdiag.exe...
View ArticleEXTERNAL HARD DISK WRITE PROTECT
I have EXTERNAL HARD DISK "WD ELEMENT SE 500 GB"the disk is write protect, its not showing in my computer, only showing disk managmentunallocated when i try to format showing disk write protectplease...
View ArticleQuestion about adding an Extra Node to SOFS cluster
Hi, I have a fully functioning SOFS cluster, with two nodes, it uses SAN FC storage, Not SAS JBODS. its running about 100VM's in production at the moment.Both my nodes currently sit on one blade...
View ArticleWindows 2012 storage server and tier with external SSD disks
HiMy query is in case I have one SAN storage with SSD and FC disks connected to Windows 2012 storage server, will Windows be able to manage Tier between two types of disks if the volumes are properly...
View ArticleDedupe question
Does dedupe work on a virtual file server's data drive that is a vhd file within a cluster shared volume?
View ArticleDFS-R Folder replication with Autodesk Autocad & Inventor Files
We have to replicate a share that contains Autocad and Inventor files on different servers. We have some problem using DFS-R. This is the scenario:-Three servers on different location. -VPN between...
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iSCSI target weirdness
Hello!If I hadn't experienced the issue I'm going to talk about I would have hardly believed it may ever happen...I'm starting setting up a test cluster (all hosts = WinServer 2012 R2): Host3 = iSCSI...
View ArticleiSCSI virtual disks left behind by vss provider?
Hello all,I have a Windows Server 2012 Failover cluster running a number of virtual machines. Storage for the cluster is provided by a Windows Storage Server 2012 instance and mapped to the nodes via...
View ArticleFile Server explicit permissions
Hi All, We have a file server windows 2008 r2, recently it has been migrated from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 using File server Migration tool. While Migrating the servers we have used the Admin id...
View ArticleWin 7 Client cannot access Win 2012 encrypted share even if...
I enable either Global-level or Share-level encryption on Win 2012 and try to access the encrypted share from a Non-SMB3 client (Win 7). As we know, "RejectUnencryptedAccess"by default is TRUE in Win...
View ArticleConvert 'OS' volume from FAT32 to NTFS with no data loss? Server 2008 R2
Hello - I have a Server 2008 R2 machine that has a FAT32 'OS' partition that seems to be part of the operating system; I'm not sure why it was created as other Server 2008 R2's I have don't have one....
View ArticleSync Center Issue - Incorrect function
I have ran into an issue with Sync Center with some of my users, while others are unaffected. When a user that is affected attempts to sync with the share setup for their account setup something like...
View ArticleError 0x80042407 restoring to exact same disc!!
I'm trying to restore a backup taken before the disk I backed up from became part of a RAID 1 array. Both disks are exactly the same, size, model, etc. Again, the backup is from the disk I am trying...
View ArticleRecover corrupted .bkf file by SysTools BKF Repair.
Hi All,My .bkf file corrupted due to power failure, and now i bought SysTools BKF Repair to retrieve the data from .bkf files. Theare are a few catalogs, say Catalog 1 and Catalog 2, in the corrupted...
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