Questions tagged [storage-spaces]
a storage abstraction layer for Direct Attached Storage in Microsoft Windows. provides features and performance comparable to a traditional SAN.
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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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Reassign space to mount points - RHEL
This is the output from df -h
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I want to reassign space of /cdrbackup and /smdb to /smpdb. Is it possible to do that?
Thanks in advance,
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Add "File Server for General Use" on top of Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) Cluster
We have a S2D Storage Spaces Direct cluster that we are wanting to add a General Purpose File Server to.
Is it possible to use the S2D Cluster Shared Volume for the File Server role ?
When i try and ...
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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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Recover storage spaces pool
I've got an old 5x5TB storage pool that I am convinced I set up with two-way parity at the time but now it seems is actually just one-way parity that right now refuses to function anymore. One disk ...
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Understanding how windows server storage spaces physical disk redundancy works dependent on where its configured
Im tasked with configured a windows server to used tiered storage using the following disks
4x 900 GB SSDs
10x 2.2TB HDDs
The SSD tier would be configured using parity with 1 redundant disk and the ...
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S2D cluster not recognizing new phisical drive
I have a cluster of three ProLiant DL380p Gen8 servers with Windows Server 2019 OS. After Predictive failure warning on one of the physical drives, I retired it (Set-PhysicalDisk -Usage Retired) and ...
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How to un-retire a Retired disk in Storage Spaces?
At some point in the past, Storage Space on a Windows Server 2012 box decided to "Retire" two drives in the pool:
I don't want the drives to be retired. I want you to keep using them.
How ...
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New to Storage Spaces - I am lost if I have configured it correctly
I would very much appreciate your help!
I am new to Storage Spaces and RAID in general and I would like to have a fail-safe drive configuration using 3 drives - 1x4TB and 2x2TB on a Windows Server ...
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Mirrored volume in Windows performance - Storage Spaces vs diskpart performance
I'm currently exploring using Storage Spaces to create a mirrored volume. In benchmarking it against a mirrored volume created with diskpart, I notice that I'm getting twice the throughput on reads. I'...
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Extend drive volume in HP 3 PAR storage
I was running low disk space in my server which is using the storage from an HP 3 PAR storage. There are some unallocated space and i have created around 100 GB space to extend my volume. After ...
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Can I delete files in folder C:\FusionLog
On my Windows Server I found folder C:\FusionLogs that occupies a lot of Gigabytes on my disk. Can I delete files from this folder to obtain freee disk space?
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File Server Cluster with shared storage - options for storage
We would like to build two-node File Server Cluster with Shared Storage on VM. The issues is that our vmware set up doesn't support disk sharing.
File server cluster must be available all the time of ...
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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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sas ssd in raid or nvme in storage pool
this may have been asked several times but till now I can't find a decent answer
I am configuring a server for a hyper-v setup with around 5 VM
look for the best solution performance and redundancy-...
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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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IneligibleDataPartition - S2D not starting - error 2
Getting this report but can't find any usefull info how to bind these disk back together:
Get-Cachediskstatus.ps1
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Node: NAS13
DiskState DiskName ...
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How to find out Mirror Resiliency level is 2-way or 3-way in Storage Spaces
How to find the Mirror Resiliency level for Virtual Disks in Storage Spaces using Powershell?
eg. 2-way mirror or 3-way mirror
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Issues with Windows Storage Space GUI
Two parts question:
I have Simple Storage Space consisting of 3 small old SSDs which I created long time ago and barely used since. Now I wanted to remove one physical drive but even though 2 of 3 ...
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Windows 10 Pro, disk is visible in get-disk but not get-physicaldisk
I have a Win 10 pro machine with one storage spaces pool.
There are 6 disks: one with host OS, 4 disks are part of storage pool, last one is problematic.
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I can not add the last disk to a ...
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Unable to delete primordial storage pool from Win 10 storage spaces
I have Windows 10 Pro with one storage pool (2 way mirror out of 4 disks)
when I run get-storagepool command I see there is another strange storage pool Primordial which I did not create.
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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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optimize-storage pool fails, cluster upgrade in process
I have a windows failover cluster running Server 2016 for a SQL 2017 Enterprise Availability Group. We have no shared disks on the server, just separate storage on each machine for the SQL AG. On both ...
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Choose best raid for SAN storage
guys I have one san storage with 30 8TB hard drive and I want to use it as storage for old video of our site, those videos are for peoples who uploaded them on our site by the way our site is like ...
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Re-assemble storage pool from disks
We are running SQL Server on ec2 and have assembled a Storage Space from multiple EBS volumes to hold the databases. This has been working better than we'd anticipated. But I'd like to explore ...
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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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Storage Spaces M2 SSD recommendations
i am looking use storage spaces and SSD for my DELL R730, i have a PCIe to SSD adapter (and cannot use RAID controller as all bays are full).
My question relates to the SSDs themselves, i know RAID-5 ...
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Maximum size of an iscsi volume on a debian system
We are preparing a new storage infrastructure and are wondering if there is a maximum size limit for ISCSI volumes on Debian.
In our experience, on Windows there is a limit of 16TB for such volumes.
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Windows Storage Spaces - a useful replacement for RAID6?
// short update at the bottom
// another update is near the bottom to reply to a suggested edit
So, at first I had this idea: Find a virtual driver to set up and use software raid on windows. Result: ...
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Server 2016 with two nodes + failover cluster manager
Hoping someone can assist. We've got two physical servers running 2016 running running a failover cluster manager environment. Each server has the following hard disks installed.
6 x 600GB 15k SAS on ...
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Storage Pools: Extending virtual disk after expanding Azure Disk
We host our Windows Server 2016 Virtual Machines on Azure and I am having a problem to expand one Virtual Disk on the Storage Pool after having expanded the disk on Azure.
The Virtual Disk is a ...
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Storage Spaces virtual disk showing as RAW instead of NTFS
I have 8 disks in a Storage Spaces pool with a single virtual disk carved out of it. I recently re-installed the OS which WAS Server 2012 R2 but am now using Windows 10 Education edition with all the ...
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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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Storage Spaces blocking IO to other drives if busy?
I am currently experimenting a bit with Microsoft Storage Spaces on Win10 Pro.
I currently have a pool of 5 x 8 TB Seagate Ironwolf.
Within that pool I created a parity protected virtual Disk, 8TB in ...
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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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ReFS on Storage Spaces: Is Storage Tiering working? Windows Server 2019
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I couldn't find any real information on this :-D I have Windows Server 2019 with one Storage Pool consisting of two HDDs and two SSDs with tiering and mirroring. On that there is a volume running ...
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How does Windows Storage Space deal with partition fragmentation? Will this cause performance issues?
I'm using Windows Storage Space with multiple hard drives.
If I create multiple virtual disks, then delete some of them, and resize some of them, will the virtual disk be finally divided into ...
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Restoring RAID 5 with Windows 10 Storage Spaces
I'm configuring specification for PC that will be used as host for virtual machines.
I planned to use 120 GB SSD drive for OS (Windows) and 3x1TB in RAID 5 for Virtual machine.
I'm wondering if it's ...
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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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Storage Spaces, unable to replace failed disks
I have a server with x36 3TB installed, all are assigned to a single Storage Pool with x3 virtual drives.
I've discovered that x2 physical drives have failed and the Operational status says Lost ...
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Do any utilities exist for recovery of ReFS for a Two-Way Windows 10 Storage Spaces volume?
Considering the following Wikipedia information and other data found on the internet as well, we decided to implement Windows 10 Storage Spaces Two-Way Mirror using plain NTFS, but wanted to know if ...
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Storage Spaces with Parity vs RAID 5 contoller without cache
RAID 5 has gotten some bad rep lately mainly because disks got so big and that in a rebuild case a bit failure on the remaining disks is likely.
Nevertheless, I'm curious about something: I read that ...
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ReFS with or without hardware RAID? With or without storage spaces?
For a backup target in a small company I‘m setting up a 4*8TB Dell Poweredge R230 (supports hardware RAID 0/1/5)
I only want to go with Windows Server since that‘s where I have most know-how.
I want ...
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Select cache disks to Storage Spaces Direct
I have a 2 clusters nodes with 4 NVMe to cache for 6 SSDs, when a create the storage cluster it does not evenly distribuites equally the cache to drives. So I want to remove one NVMe, so it will ...
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Storage Space Direct : SMB error
So we've got this 4-node Storage Space Direct (S2D) cluster, working for more than 1.5 year without any major issue. The OS is Windows Server 2016.
Firewall down for all profiles
No antivirus ...
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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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Adding a Storage Tier to an existing Virtual Disk in Storage Spaces
I've got an existing and working (I think) Storage Space on my machine. It is tiered - it has SSD and HDD's in it:
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-StorageTier
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RAID 5 virtual disk still shows up as degraded after repair
On a machine running Windows Server 2012 R2, I have a virtual disk consisting of 8 physical disks in a RAID-5 configuration. One drive died, so I replaced the dead drive and followed these ...
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Create Storage Spaces Parity RAID Using Powershell
I have an external USB enclosure that is presenting the physical disks to my Windows Server 2016 operating system with identical UniqueIDs.
As a result, I cannot use the Server Manager > Storage ...
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