Creating a virtual disk for SOFS
I am struggling to create a virtual disk for SOFS on server 2016I have 3 Jbods, each with 3 SSDs and i want to create a 3 column 2 data copy.However every time i try to create this it fails. It tells...
View ArticleProperly configuring test environment for switching print servers from...
Hello - sorry if this is the wrong forum, but since it deals with printers shared over SMB, I thought it might fit in the "file services" section.We have 500 users using \\print2008 to print right now,...
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 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...
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 ArticleHow to use Robocopy to sync two shared folders while user are acccesing it
HI We have two shared folders on server. One is primary which is shared with the user and almost about to fill and other is not shared yet but I want to move all the data from primary to new one. some...
View ArticleAccess based enumeration not working in windows 2016
We have enable ABE on share folder but it is not apply other users to view our name folder.
View ArticleHow to disable / decrease MPIO cache
Hi, Testing out a new backup repository.I have a QNAP nas with 12disks. It's currently connected to my aruba switch via 2x1Gbit links. My backup server is physical with 4x10k raid5, Win2012r2. The...
View ArticleProblems with shared Excel files disappearing with DFSR on Server 2008 R2
Hello all,We have a problem while saving Excel files that are "shared" (multiple user editing) in DFS replicated network folder.Environment: 2 x Server 2008 R2 (hosting shared Excel files in a network...
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 ArticleReplacing a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces two way...
Guys,Anyone came across drive replacement in Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces two way mirror layout? it kinda confusing than the one you use for parity layout which is simply a matter of adding a...
View ArticleStorage Spaces Extremely slow during data moving
Hi,On my server at home I have created a Storage Pool to store all my data (Photos Video etc...): this is my config:Dell R710 Dual Xeon X5675 Dell Perc H310 144GB RAM Windows Server 2016I've currently...
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 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 ArticleServer 2012 NFS & nfsnobody problem
We have a fresh 2012 server with some local storage that we want to share with some linux users.We don't (yet) have an identity mapping source (AD or User Name Mapping server), instead we are relying...
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 ArticleServer 2016 Work Folders and Windows 10 1803 Sync Question
We've just deployed Work Folders in our organisation and so far we're loving it. It solves a lot of issues and enhances our user's experience.I have a question about .ini files. We have essentially...
View ArticleROBOCOPY 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 ArticleiSCSI Initiator issues on Server 2019
Hello, I'm trying out Windows Server 2019 and I'm having some problems with the iSCSI Initiator. After several hours of debugging also against 2016, I managed to pinpoint that the following WMI query...
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...
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