How to replicate VMM VMs in failover cluster running Storage Spaces Direct to ASR
We want to migrate Virtual Machine Manager VMs running in a local Storage Spaces Direct failover cluster (Windows Server 2016) to Azure. Azure Site Recovery was recommended as a method to do this (replicate (backup) the VM to Azure and then failover to…
Volume is displayed as RAW. The data is corrupted due to the REFS partitions. No access to the volumes anymore. How do I restore the volumes (without data loss)?
The volumes connected via iSCSI from an MSA to our backup server are partitioned via ReFS. The drives showed up as RAW over the weekend and are no longer available. As a result, backups to the volumes no longer work either. The error message in the…
Max capacity of single Storage Pool, Virtual disk and NTFS volume on Windows Server 2019.
I'm testing create over 1PB volume with Storage Space on single server. I could create 1.6PB storage pool and create simple 1.3PB Virtual disk. And finally created 1.3PB NTFS volume as D: drive. But I couldn't find upper limitation of each on Microsoft…
S2D cluster demotion
Hello Team, I have an s2d cluster, that was corrupted I want know to rebuild this cluster, but first i want to do a clean demotion of that cluster (Disabling of s2d - cluster disk cleanup -cleaning the nodes, cluster objects from the domain....etc) …
Storage Spaces Direct - Good Hyper-V host performance, poor guest VM Performance
Hey Everyone, I am building a 4-node cluster with Windows Server 2022, Hyper-V, and Storage Spaces Direct. Everything is going well except for storage performance for guest VMs, it is performing much slower than expected. In general, the Hyper-V hosts…
how to fix server to server storage replica failover issues
server to server Storage Replica secondary partner data volume not coming online when direction is switched powershell command just hangs SET-SRPartnership -NewSourceComputerName REG1MSFS0301 -SourceRGName DSS_SRP02_PRD -DestinationComputerName…
How to fix storage spaces error No resiliency check the physical drives section?
the Power supply in my Windows 11 pro system Died and took 3 of my HD's with it. Those drives stopped showing at all in the BIOS. I removed them from the system / Retired them in Powershell / then ran " Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName ' ' …
Storage Migration Service fails to start transfer
I am attempting to transfer file shares from a Server 2012 R2 file sharing server to a new Server 2019 server. They are both virtual machines running under VMware. I recently successfully performed this on two other identical systems without issue. I get…
storage server 2012 r2 standard convert to server 2012 r2
Hi All, Is it even possible to convert storage server 2012 r2 standard to server 2012 r2 standard? Any advice would be much appreciated.
Change HDDs in S2D Cluster to all SSDs - Windows Server 2022
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen I need help switching from HDDs to SSDs in a two node S2D cluster. There are currently seven HDDs installed as capacity drives and five SSDs as journals (cache) per node. Now I want to replace the HDDs with SSDs and add the…
Can NAS over 256TB be mapped to windows via SMB?
As far as I know, NTFS only allows upto 256TBs per volume. And also when map NAS not the NTFS to windows, the NAS recognized as NTFS. So if the NAS goes over 256 TBs, will there be any problem when using with windows? Or can be asked as 'Is there any…
Changing default download and storage location for Windows updates
I recently discovered that my C drive is nearly full, while my D drive has much more space. However, even though I've set my default download and storage location to the D drive, my Windows updates still go to the C drive. Is there a way to permanently…
Connection reset upon receiving an SMB 3.1.1 encrypted packet.
Hello, everyone. I am currently working on an SMB client on an embedded RTOS system. When the test servers( Windows 11 & Windows 10) received the encrypted SMB packet from the client, Windows immediately fails the request with a [RST ,ACK] . I only…
Why can the setting size of storage space exceed the size of the storage pool it is in?
The version of Windows I am using is: Windows11 23H2 Previously, I created a parity-based storage pool using four 2TB hard drives, and added a 7TB storage space to it. (as shown below) Recently, I replaced all hard disks with 8TB drives, and the storage…
Where are MS Teams voice mails stored when using a group mailbox? Are they stored in the OneDrive of the user that accesses them?
Where are MS Teams voice mails stored when using a group mailbox? Are they stored in the OneDrive of the user that accesses them? Are they only stored as an email or are they stored as data somewhere?
Storage Spaces: Parity Space has Error but does not state what the problem is
Hello Microsoft maybe you can help. I already tried every result on google and asked in a win10 forum. No help. I have a running storage pool with 3 x 4TB in parity on Win10. The HDDs are ~2 years old. CrystalDisk shows everything green on them. However,…
How to effortless migrating a 2-node, 3TB file server cluster from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2019.
Hi, Good day!! Hope you are doing well. I have 2-node general purpose file server cluster running windows server 2012 r2. I need to migrate to another site datacenter windows server 2019 file server cluster with same configuration, permissions and data.…
How would I increase Disk Space on a MS Server 2019 Stretched Fileshare Cluster
Hi Everyone, ENVIRONMENT INFO: We have a MS File (Stretch) Cluster that spans 2 buildings separated by two city blocks. This Fileshare cluster is not within Active Directory. In Building A we have a storage appliance whose Volumes are presented to 1…
Rollaback oldest roaming profile to local profile
Hi, I have operating in my domain the users roaming profiles from 20 years. Now, due a mandatory policy, I need to rollback all roaming profiles to local profile for deactivate actual profile server. I not know if is possible and eventually by what…
Hyper-V on Cluster, can I use non CSV storage? SMB file share?
Hi all, I've got a problem now that I have moved my Hyper-V machines onto my cluster. I use a Synology NAS/SAN box for storage via iSCSI. The problem is simply that their various backup solutions, in particular ActiveBackup for Business does not support…