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HP Smart Array B140i S2D
I try to create a S2D with my HP DL380 Smart Array B140i. I have all bays with SSDs and want to use bays 5-8 for a S2D. I need to configure the array controllor (or the BIOS?) to make the drives ...
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Storage Spaces with Azure Disk: how can we extend virtual disks?
We have on Azure several Windows Server 2019 virtual machines whose data disks are configured with Storage Spaces.
How can we extend a virtual disk configured for simple redundancy (NumberOfDataCopies ...
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Error attaching or detaching virtual disk
I just physically moved my home lab from one house to another and my storage space for my primary array will not re-attach. The message I get is "Error attaching or detaching virtual disk: ...
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Number of disks in relation to rows and columns in Windows Storage Spaces
I have been reading through the documentation for Windows Storage Spaces, trying to understand drive provisioning for parity storage spaces. What isn't exactly clear to me is whether the number of ...
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Windows storage spaces tiered storage not using nvme drive?
I'm trying to run an Ethereum full node (geth v1.10) with archiving for big data analysis.
The storage requirements are expected to be 8TB after being fully sync'd.
I have a Synology NAS that is ...
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Storage Spaces Pool - MediaType incompatible with type
Failing to create a virtual disk in Server 2019 due to 2 of the 6 drives having unknown MediaType. Tried setting media type whilst they are in and out of the pool but always same error:
Set-...
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Storage Spaces Direct and Virtualization Architecture
I'm trying to figure out the best way to architect a 2 node fail over cluster with the Hyper V role installed. I can really use some input and suggestions from others who have already been down this ...
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Windows Storage Pool stuck at "Starting, OK" after rebooting for patches
After rebooting for patches this week, my main storage pool is not showing up in Server Manger.
no drives were removed
all drives are visible in Device Manager
no drive errors are reported
shutdown ...
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upgraded server from 2016 to 2019 with storage pool. Should I run Update-StoragePool to upgrade the version?
I in-place upgraded a server 2016 box with a storage pool to server 2019. Everything is running fine though the pool version is "Windows Server 2016". Should I run the Update-StoragePool command to ...
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Hardware RAID vs Windows Server 2019 Storage Pools
Windows Server 2019 has an interesting feature that allows you to group your drives together and create Storage Pools. It even allows you to create tiered storage (that is, specify which drives are ...
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How to reassign S2D NVME SSD as cache role
We are using Hyper-V on a S2D cluster of three nodes. Each node has two NVME SSD's and 8x SAS 1.2TB drives. The NVME SSD's are currently assigned in the performance Tier and the 8 drives are assigned ...
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Storage Spaces Write Cache Not Disabling
I posted this to TechNet forums and haven't had much luck in getting an answer, so hopefully someone here can point out what I'm missing. I'm trying to create a Storage Spaces mirror-accelerated ...
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Configuring Storage Spaces for NVMe caching of SSDs using powershell
I am installing Server 2019 Core on a Dell server. These are the drives I have:
Get-StoragePool -IsPrimordial $true | Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object CanPool -eq $True
DeviceId FriendlyName ...
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Corrupt (?) ReFS causing blue screen when drive is mounted
On Windows Server 2019, I have an 8 drive Storage Spaces pool that contains many volumes, only one of which is ReFS formatted. (The rest are NTFS.)
My server recently spontaneously started blue ...
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Issues with Multi-resilient volumes (Mirror-accelerated parity) in a regular (not S2D) Storage Spaces configuration
I'm trying to configure Multi-Resilient Volume (Mirror-Accelerated Parity) using "regular" Clustered Storage Spaces (not S2D) on Windows Server 2019. It is worth noting that I've tried the same ...
