Storage Spaces Direct Cluster (Validation fails on port 3343 over the Mellanox NICs)
Hi Everyone, I am building a 4 node storage spaces direct cluster running Server 2022. Each node has two (dual port) NICS. Intel 10gb and Mellanox 100gb. When running the cluster validation test, is it normal to see errors on the mellanox NICs for…
I researched to see if it was a free tier, but then I got charged.
**About a month ago, I registered for the 12-month free tier through an email sent by the Azure administrator. However, it appears that you are currently subscribed to a pay-per-use plan, and you have been charged because you did not delete resources…
Unable to access my old files
I have an encrption on my windows system, after reloading the system, I could not access all my files and documents. Its telling me I don't have the permission to do so
Work Folders with AD FS and Web Application Proxy (WAP) - ERROR-ID 0x80072efe
DC, WF, ADFS, WAP - Win Std. 2022 The configuration does not work with an MS WAP. --> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/work-folders/deploy-work-folders-adfs-overview I get the following error after successfully logging in. It…
Work Folders with AD FS and Web Application Proxy (WAP) - ERROR-ID 0x80072efe
DC, WF, ADFS, WAP - Win Std. 2022 The configuration does not work with an MS WAP. --> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/work-folders/deploy-work-folders-adfs-overview I get the following error after successfully logging in. It…
ReFS and file server resource manger
Hello, I know that FSRM does not run on ReFS but I am using FSRM on all of my server but I would like the benefits of ReFS. My question is, Will there be a FSRM option for ReFS?
DFS Share and Azure Files - DFS Name Access Extremely Slow when WebClient service Running in Windows
We just did a large on premises file share migration to Azure Files (serverless), and implemented a DFS namespace server (Windows 2022 with root consolidation) so all existing file share paths would be retained and it's less noticeable for our end…
hyper-v converged cluster seems to faces low performance on new vms
Hi! I am facing something strange on my Hyper-V converged cluster and I would like to hear from you If you faced something similar and you deal with. I have a cluster of 3 physical servers with win2019 datacenter edition. They are all same and contain…
windows 2016 server hard drive is filling up every night
My windows 2016 server (essentials) is beginning to fill up the hard drive every night. I feel like there is something running that is causing this. My client backups are backing up to a separate external hard drive. Both hard drive are 1 Tb. What…
Turn off dedup and delete chunkstore?
I cannot find any guides on how to completely disable deduplucation and delete all traces of the chunkstore. I was trying to use dedup on a volume, but it turns out that it's less efficient than using non-dedup because the files are too large on that…
How to install a virtual hard disk on Windows XP
I'm trying to add a virtual hard disk to a pc with Windows XP Pro using the command "SUBST S: C:\DRIVES" and saving it as a "VIRTDRIVES.BAT" in the Start folder. I was told this would install a VHD with the drive letter…
Storage Spaces on Hypervised VM (Passthrough Drives No Longer Recognized)
I set up a Hyper-V 2019 Server and a Single VM running Windows Server 2019. I passed through 4 HDDs to the Windows Server and created a Storage Pool. After restarting the drives appear in bios and under drives but no longer appear in diskpart/disk…
Unable to contact Active Directory to access or verify claim types & central policy tab missing
Dear community, TL;DR: two problems: Unable to contact Active Directory to access or verify claim types & central policy tab missing. Servers can reach each other when for example I ping them or search for AD users. I'm setting up an…
Storage Replica - SRgroup suspended and cant be resumed.
When I tried to change the direction of a SRgroup in storage replica server 2019 ( what we do often). The remote server crashed. When it came backup online the replication was suspended. When I try to sync it back it goes fail. The partnership only exist…
How to modify Queue Depth on Windows Server?
Hi everyone, I'm using a server with Windows Server 2019 that is connected to an VSP E590 storage from Hitachi, I have a problem that my volumes doesn't have a good performance, due to this I contacted Hitachi support and they told me that my storage is…
MSFT_VirtualDisk class enumeration will not yield attached virtual disks
I have a virtual disk (VHD) and attached via disk mgmt tool. Now using WMI and windows storage management API, I used MSFT_Disk class and executed the query "select * from MSFT_Disk" and both of the disks were listed. I thought that…
Cannot add drive using Failover Cluster Manager - no disks suitable for cluster disks were found
I am creating a new SQL cluster to replace out old cluster. I created a new, two server cluster running Server 2022. I am told I need to add the disk to the cluster before I can install our SQL server software. I created a new volume in our PowerStore.…
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…