ROBOCOPY new user questions
Greetings,When running robocopy I am experiencing the following. Can you correct/explain what is happening, please?1. I get an extra directory under the total column and 1 skipped directory. Yet the...
View ArticleCluster shared volumes: thousands SCSI reservation errors on the storage system
We have four virtualization hosts running Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter with Hyper-V role. Those servers are connected via FCoE links to an external storage system. Logical volumes on that storage...
View Articleis it safe to expand a partition that is deduplicated?
HelloI need to know if is it safe to extend patition on Windows (file) server 2012 R2. I have a disk in virtual server and I need to extend it. Do I risk lost of data when I resize deduplicated...
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 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 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 ArticleW2012R2 Storage Pool SSD-Tier Error (Lost Communication)
Hello all. I hope someone can help.Our server (W2012R2) crashed. It has a Tiered storage pool with 2 x SSD and 2 x HDD.On reboot after the crash, the storage pool went into read-only mode as both SSD...
View ArticleDFSR - Intial Sync over write
I have a replication pair that was working but is only working in one directionI have users point to both folders.I have a large back log.The server that isn't sending, is saying its still waiting for...
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 ArticleW2012R2 Storage Pool Healthy Drive shown as Lost Communication
Hello all. I hope someone can help.Our server (W2012R2) crashed. It has a Tiered storage pool with 2 x SSD and 2 x HDD.On reboot after the crash, the storage pool went into read-only mode as both SSD...
View ArticleShared VHD Set on HyperConverged S2D Issue
Realized an issue lately with my cluster and it has to do with the shared vhd set. i had a guest cluster hosted on my hyperconverge solution. it seems that whenever i power on the guest nodes, the...
View ArticleFile sharing cannot be accessed by DNS alias name
hi All,just a weird case to ask.In my domain environment, we created an alias DNS record (fs01) for pointing to a file server (real hostname: fileserver1, IP: 192.168.1.10). On a 08r2 member server, it...
View ArticleFile share folder permissions
Hello,I have a question regarding administrator permissions on folders and subfolders on shares.I have folders structured like this:rootFolder AFolder A \ Folder A1Folder A \ Folder A2Folder BFodler B...
View ArticleFile server Resource Manager
I am running server 2012 R2 and configuring FSRM in order to Archive data that has not been accessed in 547 days from the Y: to the X: but when I run the File Management Task it goes through the...
View ArticleHow can I generate a list with no file changes using Robocopy to show EXTRA...
I want to do a file comparison between two directories and warn via email if file differences are found, either new or extra files.I don't want to update the directories in any way, but get the list to...
View ArticleThe Microsoft iSCSI Target Server service could not bind to network address
In a new Windows 2012 R2 setup, we are seeing an issue where we cannot bind to the 10Gb card that is installed. The server is a DL380 gen 8. The onboard HP 1Gb NICs can successfully be bound to the...
View ArticleAudit file access from Server 2012 cluster
We have 2 x Virtual 2012 R2 servers in a failover cluster being access via a namespaceEgNamespace = fileserverServer 1 Virtual = fileserverAServer 2 Virtual = fileserverBSAN Storage with RDM mappings...
View ArticleServer 2019 S2D Nested Resiliency - Storage Pool Quorum
On this page - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/nested-resiliency - a scenario is detailed where a 2-node S2D cluster loses one entire node plus a disk on the...
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...
View ArticleS2D mixed with iSCSI SAN
Good morning,We currently have a traditional Window Server 2016 3-node Hyper-V Cluster with an iSCSI SAN. We are planning to purchase two additional nodes capable of support Storage Spaces Direct. We...
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