Q: Best way to synchronize file servers
Hello Admins, currently we have about 20 Windows Server 2012 R2 as file servers, which are replicated via DFS-R. The servers are distributed worldwide and the replication takes forever (several days)....
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct Cluster Aware Updating Behaviour
We have a 4 node S2D Hyperconverged cluster. When running Server 2016 CAU on the cluster the Microsoft documentation tells us that it is S2D aware and that it will only reboot a cluster node when the...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct and Diskpart Automount Policy
We're using storage spaces direct as a disk target for backup storage. Our backup product has a direct SAN attached method for backup of VMware virtual machines versus using a proxy that uses HotAdd...
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diskperf and task manager and mounted volume - How to force task manager to...
diskperf and task manager and mounted volume - How to force task manager to also show MOUNTED VOLUMES?I have a Win2012 Server using a secondary volume mounted as c:\DATA insted using drive letterswhen...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Direct Dirty Count Greater Than Limit - Volume is Online
From reading on troubleshooting and a long support call the Storage Spaces Drt counters for a storage spaces direct volume are never supposed to be greater than the limit. If the limit is breached...
View ArticleStorage Pool wrongly reporting not enough space to move files
Hi.I am running a Windows Server 2016 machine with 4x 8TB and 2x 10TB drives in a storage pool. While trying to move data from one virtual disk witch is a parity volume, over to another virtual disk...
View ArticleLost communications on a server pool
Hello all,I just started with server pools. I have 1 4T and 4 1T drives.I have made a simple pool for the 4 1T drives to be added together.I went and took out 1 of the drive (hot swap) and after...
View ArticleLatest ISCSI Target LocalMount Adapter for Windows 2012r2
My team is currently setting up a Windows 2012r2 Server as a ISCSI target. The drivers under device manager for the Latest ISCSI Target LocalMount Adapter have a date of 6/21/2006 and are version...
View ArticleDFS Server Replication Issue
Hi We have 2 DFS server on different site: DFS01 and DFS02 (windows server 2012 R2)Replication has stopped with below error:DFS01 Error: The DFS Replication service has been repeatedly prevented from...
View ArticleSMB Multichannel is slower than disabled
Hello,I am building a test following this blog https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/josebda/2012/06/28/the-basics-of-smb-multichannel-a-feature-of-windows-server-2012-and-smb-3-0/Server:windows server...
View ArticleDeny Format of Drives for Admins
HiWe have multiple LUNs / Drives on Windows servers using as backup repositories. We removed all NTFS permissions from these drives except for System and backup works fine. Now our concern is to how to...
View ArticleDFSRs errors
Hello,I found many errors on our event viewer related to DFS. Do you know any solutions or what the possible error can be? When i check the disks they are all healthy. DFSRs (9420) \\.\D:\System...
View ArticleFile Server Migration from Server 2008 to Server 2016
Hi,Is there a better way to migrate File Server from 2008 R2 to Server 2016 and keeping NTFS and shares permission and the structure same?I am not sure if the robocopy would do what I need?ROBOCOPY...
View ArticleS2D- Uncorrected Read Errors on Disks
Hi,I have a 4 node 2-way mirror resi. and I see the following on some of the disks. Is this going to effect the performance or/and disk is about to fail?Get-PhysicalDisk | Get-StorageReliabilityCounter...
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DFS NAME SPACE - The specified path is invalid
Please help: I have four dfs servers and replications as mesh. Each time I try to add the 4th server to the namespace it failed with “The namespace server \\server\dir cannot be added. The specified...
View ArticleWill Storage Replica Source Log wrap during a large data copy?
Hi,If I setup Storage Replica with Asynchronous replication and then start copying data to the replicated volume, it will write it to the source log volume and then to the source data volume. The...
View ArticleRequest help to understand DDEVAL report
Dear All,While running the DDEVAL tool, it gives a result with "no compression". I want some help on what to derive from values shown against "no compression".There comes different types of...
View ArticleScale-Out File server Snapshot issue
Hi,I have Configured a Failover cluster with two nodes running Server 2012 R2 that point to a common Scale-out File server storage location running 2012 R2. I have also enable the Fille server VSS...
View ArticleUnable to create VMs in Scale out file share UNC path and Snapshot failure...
Hi Support, I have followed the below link to setup a Scale-out file server for a Fail over cluster setup that has 3 nodes all running Windows server 2012 R2 (ALL Updates...
View ArticleWindows Search indexing limits
I'm working on setting up a new Windows 2012 R2 file server and using to share and index about 1.4 TB / 1.5 million files. I have the Windows Search service installed as well as the Adobe and Microsoft...
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