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How to find ISCSI target LUN - by cmd or powershell or...by ...whatever?

Hi, I wonder what is the way to find out Iscsi Target's LUN? In a command like Iscsicli there are options to include this parameter, but... how to get it? GUI or cmd/powershell? Anyone? Reference: …

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 2020-08-27T15:43:06.643+00:00
InfoTechdude 156 Reputation points
commented 2020-09-08T12:44:03.46+00:00
InfoTechdude 156 Reputation points
2 answers

After a random period of time of many days or even weeks, RD users begin to get “File Cannot be Opened” errors via mapped drives on SMB Shares.

Setup as follows: Windows 2019 RDS with manually created persistent drive mappings on Windows 2016 File Server. ERP software with flat file databases is stored on the file server and runs through these mappings, so there is a lot of SMB network traffic…

Remote Desktop
Remote Desktop
A Microsoft app that connects remotely to computers and to virtual apps and desktops.
4,369 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 2020-08-24T12:11:28.48+00:00
SNP 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-09-08T07:57:04.69+00:00
Karlie Weng 16,076 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Failover Cluster/Hyper-V Machines/Cluster Storage Volume/Status_Connection_Disconnected

2 Node Failover Cluster with S2D, Hyper-V Machines' vhdx active on Cluster Shared Volume. Issue: CSV "Storage Name" consistently enters pause state due to Status_Connection_Disconnected. RHSCall::DeadlockMonitor: Call ISALIVE timed out…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,569 questions
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 2020-08-28T15:07:05.677+00:00
Aure 21 Reputation points
accepted 2020-08-31T12:10:54.127+00:00
Aure 21 Reputation points
4 answers

Storage Spaces, BitLocker not accepting recovery key

As a bit of context, I have a server running Server 2019 with a storage pool using local hard disks, been running fine for a year or so. Previously replaced disks without any issues. At the end of last week, I needed to upgrade a disk, so I added the…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,569 questions
Windows 10 Security
Windows 10 Security
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
2,823 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 2020-08-27T10:16:45.297+00:00
Richard Pope 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-08-28T18:19:51.897+00:00
Richard Pope 1 Reputation point
1 answer

Moving Folders With FSRM

My team has been asked to set up an automated system to "archive" project directories on our Server 2019 share. In reality they want certain directories to be moved to another location automatically based on a flag file saved within the…

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
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.PowerShell: A family of Microsoft task automation and configuration management frameworks consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language.
5,446 questions
asked 2020-08-26T14:10:38.583+00:00
Nick 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-08-27T06:51:35.753+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,376 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
3 answers

MSDN windows server 2012 r2

I have a Server running 2012 R2 and it is in a work group. my Network runs off a Azure AD through O365, but i have this server set up to be a file share. When i try to access the shares from my computers i get a logon error. I can remote into my…

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 2020-08-14T19:21:48.81+00:00
Scott Fry 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-08-27T06:01:52.723+00:00
Eleven Yu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 10,706 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

storage spaces enclosure awarness

Hi, As It can be found to have enclosure awarness working it is necessery to have minimum 3 enclosures. I cannot found requirements for 3rd enclosure, except this fundamental. So lets assume we have two identicall enclosures full of disks (A and…

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 2020-08-21T09:42:34.753+00:00
agor 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-08-25T09:33:30.697+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,376 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

windows Cluster storage space direct, healthstatus is warning and operational status is Degraded

HI we have NodeA , Node B in a cluster.. NodeA, NodeB HDD Physical disks details Disk 1 …500GB Disk 2 …500GB Disk 3… 500B Disk 4 ..100 GB We have enable storage space direct in a cluster and fixed the mediattype unspecified…

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 2020-08-22T10:29:42.123+00:00
Abdul Baba Syed 21 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-24T14:49:41.053+00:00
Abdul Baba Syed 21 Reputation points
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S2d cluster health service is missing

S2d cluster health service is missing/ When trying to execute Get-StorageSubSystem Cluster | Get-StorageHealthReport I recive an error Invoke-CimMethod : Failed to communicate with cluster health resource Activity ID:…

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 2020-08-23T14:39:15.073+00:00
Semyon Lomakin 21 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-24T09:42:26.33+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,376 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

What creates and uses \system volume information\$CBT2 files?

Hi, I am unable to properly shrink my iscsi drive X: because the file "\system volume information\$CBT2" is marked D (unmovable). I would like to remove that file so I can shrink that volume which now has significant wasted space, but I don't…

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 2020-08-24T04:18:37.453+00:00
Web Dove 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-08-24T09:01:24.627+00:00
Xiaowei He 9,876 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

2019 S2D HCI File Server on VM

About 7 years ago we had Dell (and their consultants) setup a new environment to virtualize our entire previously all-physical infrastructure. This consisted of 2 Server 2012 Hyper-v hosts connected to a iSCSI SAN in a failover cluster. All servers were…

Azure Stack HCI
Azure Stack HCI
A hyperconverged infrastructure operating system delivered as an Azure service that provides security, performance, and feature updates.
301 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 2020-08-14T00:12:11.063+00:00
Rahul Sukumar 141 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-23T16:06:59.463+00:00
Alex Bykovskyi 1,841 Reputation points
1 answer

Slow disk performance (NtfsCheckpointVolume) on a raid 0 of nvme disks

Hi, I'm trying to understand why a windows 2019 server running on a Dell R740 with 4x nvme disks in raid 0 (using the dell controller) have read speeds of 10GB/s but struggle to write a couple thousand files a second, and when I profile it seems to be…

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 2020-08-20T15:35:46.673+00:00
Leonardo Santagada 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-08-21T08:03:51.91+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,376 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

Windows10 domain environment access windows2016 file server almost open folder access

Win10 Professional version operating system, access to the Server2016 file server. There was a 200 gigabyte folder with about 380,000 stray files. This folder will get stuck when you open it even if you wait a long time But I test found that win10 1703…

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 2020-08-12T08:27:36.53+00:00
WQ Wang 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-08-20T06:26:50.377+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,376 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

File Services and Storage (previous versiosn)

I have the full access right for the folder but when i click previous version and select the folder that time give me this error.

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 2020-08-18T12:52:43.777+00:00
rex rex 41 Reputation points
answered 2020-08-19T06:42:16.117+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,376 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

Remove unused space from a disk

Hi, I have a on-prem VM which has 500 GB of disk connected, it is hardly used, currently utilized around 30 GB. Is there a way using "disk mirroring option" to reduce the total space and return remaining space back to datastore eg: by…

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
1,564 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 2020-08-12T11:45:32.73+00:00
WinTechie 286 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-17T09:35:33.663+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,376 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Cluster volume doesn't show the full capacity

Hi, Cluster volume doesn't show the full capacity, when click the Cluster disk the size in the botton is lower than the disk capacity. Why the cluster volume doesn't show the full capacity, how can I make all capacity use.

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 2020-08-13T11:24:59.46+00:00
James 21 Reputation points
accepted 2020-08-16T09:42:39.487+00:00
James 21 Reputation points
3 answers

SYSTEM NTFS attribute missing

I have a network share setup on my domain that our users can access. Today I started getting complaints that people could not access the top level share (\MYSERVER\SHARE), however, they could access any folder one level down from the share…

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 2020-08-07T14:52:07.557+00:00
DollaBillz 121 Reputation points
answered 2020-08-14T03:03:03.2+00:00
Xiaowei He 9,876 Reputation points
3 answers

In-place upgrade from 2012 r2 to 2019 affect on spanned volume

We have a 2012 r2 server we are trying to do an in-place upgrade to 2019, the question is how will the upgrade affect the spanned volume that is on the 2012 r2 server. Not sure if need to just move the volume of if there is a different option.

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
1,564 questions
Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
12,524 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 2020-08-06T14:29:44.873+00:00
Mcneil, Robert G 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-08-13T09:32:56.973+00:00
Thameur-BOURBITA 32,621 Reputation points
1 answer

Windows Server 2019 - Cannot see MOV files

On our network the contents of the public shared drive is accessible to anyone properly authenticated. There are hundreds of folders and thousands of files. This drive "S" is used heavily daily. Twice in as many weeks I've had PC users…

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 2020-07-28T23:22:21.237+00:00
Calvary IT 11 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-12T16:48:52.483+00:00
Calvary IT 11 Reputation points
1 answer

Windows Server 2012 not automatically assigning a drive letter to my external HDD

Issue: My Windows Server 2012 instance will no longer automatically assign a drive letter to my external HDD when I connect it via USB. When I connect it, it notices it being connected and puts the little eject icon in the systray, but I have to go…

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 2020-08-07T17:18:29.96+00:00
Seth Weber 41 Reputation points
commented 2020-08-12T03:09:10.223+00:00
Xiaowei He 9,876 Reputation points