642 questions with Windows Server Storage tags

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S2D Hybrid Storage Pool Cache only using 2 NVME Drives

I have a recently created 5 node Server 2019 S2D cluster that has the following config on each server. 2x 1.6TB NVMe 2x 1.6TB SSD 4x 8TB HDD I ran the Enable-ClusterS2D and have working loads on the cluster. I have notice that only 2 of…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,613 questions
Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server Clustering
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Clustering: The grouping of multiple servers in a way that allows them to appear to be a single unit to client computers on a network. Clustering is a means of increasing network capacity, providing live backup in case one of the servers fails, and improving data security.
974 questions
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-08-04T21:07:26.543+00:00
Cajun 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-09-30T13:50:20.907+00:00
Pascal Slijkerman 91 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to trace error log file while using Storage Migration Service

Hello, When using the Storage Migration Service to transfer a high amount of data from a physical server to a virtual one and after the first copy of data has been made, where can we trace the log file with the errors resulted after the copy? Thanks…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-29T09:41:55.9+00:00
Ana Maria Kobori 36 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
accepted 2020-09-29T10:08:46.717+00:00
Ana Maria Kobori 36 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

Customer Voice: Embedded Survey Pop-Up Frequency

Hi all, I am trying to create a survey on my website, but I am having some challenges with it and it's really starting to get to me. I am hoping to set the following rules for it: I am hoping the survey will pop up after 15 seconds instead of…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-25T20:16:57.137+00:00
Claire Ho 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-09-28T10:09:32.01+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,376 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

Storage Replica Test-SRTopology failed with sector size

I have 2 windows 2016 servers and 2 exactly same size disks connected via hba adapter to these 2 servers. When i run Test-SRTopology it always fails with error whic is these 2 disks doesn t have same sector size. Who can help me about this ? I…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-25T23:38:12.42+00:00
Semih 6 Reputation points
answered 2020-09-27T10:15:24.4+00:00
Semih 6 Reputation points
5 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

MSDN Forum:SQL server performace issue with different storage

Hi Team, We are running same queries on two different SQL servers with version SQL server 2014 whereas we used different storage HP3PAR and NETAPP for both the servers but while execution of the queries for NETAPP storage we are getting wait type…

SQL Server
SQL Server
A family of Microsoft relational database management and analysis systems for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.
13,213 questions
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-21T07:45:05.797+00:00
Mohan Agarwal 21 Reputation points
answered 2020-09-24T13:19:05.367+00:00
Mohan Agarwal 21 Reputation points
0 answers

some virtual disk's goes Retired automatically with out any issue in S2D

Im not sure certain disk's goes Retired im not sure, what is happening this are virtual disk, when I restart the server the same disk will not be in the Pool.. I have to issue the below command $disk = get-physicaldisk | ? CanPool…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-21T11:53:43.447+00:00
Abdul Baba Syed 21 Reputation points
commented 2020-09-22T08:25:37.403+00:00
2 answers

Server 2019: Files not inheriting permissions after move

By design, when a user moves a file within a volume, the NTFS permissions (ACL) moves with the file. This is different from a copy operation where the destination file will inherit permissions that are set by the target folder. In my case, the volume…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,569 questions
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-21T12:09:04.26+00:00
cKoppen 6 Reputation points
commented 2020-09-21T13:38:17.133+00:00
Leon Laude 85,716 Reputation points
1 answer

DFS Shares going offline after user's device was converted over to folder redirection

Hello, Having a hard time trying to figure out the fix on this issue that's been going. We have two file servers (we will be consolidating it down to one, but that's a project for another time). Both of these file servers live in Azure One file…

Windows
Windows
A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.
5,002 questions
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-15T12:53:48.49+00:00
cz57avenger 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-09-21T07:44:13.833+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,791 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

Is it possible to script ISCSI MCS connection setup?

Hello - When I set up servers, I typically script as much of the setup as possible to make them as consistent as possible. I have powershell that I use to set up ISCSI MPIO that works for most scenarios that require multiple connections. I recently came…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-12T18:14:47.33+00:00
Tim Reid 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-09-21T00:39:21.087+00:00
Alex Bykovskyi 1,841 Reputation points
2 answers

Storage Space direct cluster colum Count confusion

I have 3 nodes, joined to cluster and created storage space and a volume.. Each node has 3 HDD disks, each 1 TB and created a volumes look at the image, why 1gb size is taken as 3.94 GB and column count is 4, i have only 3 disk per node, how…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-16T05:17:24.037+00:00
Abdul Baba Syed 21 Reputation points
answered 2020-09-18T13:24:43.97+00:00
Abdul Baba Syed 21 Reputation points
1 answer

ReFS Integrity Streams and Data Deduplication

We recently had some corruption on one of our file servers and we thought it should have healed itself, though it didn't. We found something interesting that we wanted to get confirmation on. We had a 12 bay server populated with 10 SAS HDD's and 2 SAS…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-03T18:56:51.633+00:00
Bernie 21 Reputation points
commented 2020-09-17T07:09:28.757+00:00
0 answers

NFS + Storage Spaces?

Hi all, how are you? I have a very weird issue here, in one hand, I have a physical disk HDD with 500GB NTFS, with a NFS Shared folder with anonymous connection and works well (for create files, modify, etc). In the other hand, I have a Storage Pool…

Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
2,425 questions
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-15T14:02:20.083+00:00
Fernando Loitey 21 Reputation points
commented 2020-09-16T08:17:02.867+00:00
1 answer

Mapped Network Drive Randomly Disconnects - Have to switch between Netbios name and FQDN to be able to connect to server

I have a user who has mapped drives to a share on a server. For some reason every couple of days her drives disconnect. Logging off and back on and restarting do not solve the connection issue. In fact we have to disconnect and re-map the drives to get…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-10T18:21:14.247+00:00
Courtney Whitley 16 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
commented 2020-09-16T07:35:24.717+00:00
Gloria Gu 3,896 Reputation points
1 answer

Disabling Bitlocker on Storage Replica Clustered disk

Hi, I have a Server 2016 stretched cluster running Storage Replica to replicate a volume from site A to site B. The replicated volume has Bitlocker enabled. We've recently implemented encryption at the SAN layer, so now want to remove Bitlocker.…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-11T13:21:46.427+00:00
Tim Boothby 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-09-16T03:39:10.783+00:00
Xiaowei He 9,876 Reputation points
2 answers

Windows 2016 Deduplication

We run a files server around 3TB on Windows 2016. Free space is ending and there are no additional disk slots. Our IT budget is tight and purchasing new servers is not an option. I have red, that Windows has deduplication feature. Is it worth installing?…

Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
2,425 questions
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-05T08:17:23.373+00:00
Rapech Sinkg 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-09-16T03:37:32.633+00:00
Xiaowei He 9,876 Reputation points
1 answer

Windows 2019 files on disk not showing up

I just coped about 1TB of data from a 2016 Filer Server to a 2019 file Server - 1 large folder and its contents On source server Size 898 GB 545k files 135k folders On dest server Size 9.25GB 9k files 5k folders On Dest Server Volume shows…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,569 questions
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-15T18:09:17.567+00:00
Scott 46 Reputation points
answered 2020-09-15T21:27:30.2+00:00
Scott 46 Reputation points
2 answers

Does Storage Replica require VSS?

The "Server-to-server storage replication with Storage Replica" page says: "We strongly recommend enabling Volume Shadow Copies and periodically taking snapshots with VSSADMIN or your other tools of choice. This will guarantee applications…

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-09T14:40:44.147+00:00
Rich B 6 Reputation points
commented 2020-09-15T05:33:56.35+00:00
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Mirror Accelerated Parity with DAS in Cluster Storage

I couldn't find a clear answer online on if a mirror accelerated parity was supported when using a 2 host fail over cluster with shared DAS storage. This is not a S2D setup.

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-03T19:03:21.113+00:00
Bernie 21 Reputation points
accepted 2020-09-14T13:54:32.137+00:00
Bernie 21 Reputation points
2 answers

Can Storage Replica use WinRM over https?

On the Storage Replica documentation it lists one of the Pre-requisites as "Appropriate firewall and router rules to allow ICMP, SMB (port 445, plus 5445 for SMB Direct) and WS-MAN (port 5985) bi-directional traffic between all nodes." …

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-08-06T10:50:02.403+00:00
Rich B 6 Reputation points
commented 2020-09-09T14:45:04.153+00:00
Rich B 6 Reputation points
4 answers

workstation service is broken

can someone help me fix it? Hello?

Windows Server Storage
Windows Server Storage
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Storage: The hardware and software system used to retain data for subsequent retrieval.
642 questions
asked 2020-09-04T02:36:15.51+00:00
Christopher Yorkshire 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-09-09T09:16:05.193+00:00
Vicky Wang 2,646 Reputation points