625 questions with Windows Server Storage tags

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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?

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.
625 questions
asked 2021-06-23T13:20:33.997+00:00
John Steele 21 Reputation points
edited a comment 2024-03-21T08:28:11.68+00:00
Homer Sibayan 361 Reputation points
2 answers

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…

Azure Files
Azure Files
An Azure service that offers file shares in the cloud.
1,142 questions
Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
6,982 questions
Azure Storage Accounts
Azure Storage Accounts
Globally unique resources that provide access to data management services and serve as the parent namespace for the services.
2,608 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.
625 questions
asked 2023-09-22T12:23:07.05+00:00
Carmelo LoPresti 20 Reputation points
commented 2024-03-20T08:55:11.3066667+00:00
Dave Cook 5 Reputation points
2 answers

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…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,506 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.
950 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.
625 questions
asked 2024-03-14T08:37:04.46+00:00
Kuznos Christos 20 Reputation points
commented 2024-03-18T16:16:48.6466667+00:00
Kuznos Christos 20 Reputation points
1 answer

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…

Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
11,933 questions
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server Backup
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Backup: A duplicate copy of a program, a disk, or data, made either for archiving purposes or for safeguarding valuable files from loss should the active copy be damaged or destroyed.
448 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.
625 questions
asked 2024-03-14T13:58:17.2066667+00:00
TIM BRIDGES 0 Reputation points
answered 2024-03-14T14:15:03.08+00:00
Michael Taylor 45,996 Reputation points
2 answers

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…

Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
2,348 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.
625 questions
asked 2023-08-25T15:21:13.8933333+00:00
JJ DiUbaldi 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-03-13T12:34:39.49+00:00
Robert Koss 1 Reputation point
2 answers

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…

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.
625 questions
asked 2024-03-12T20:42:02.6566667+00:00
Barbara Coburn 0 Reputation points
answered 2024-03-13T02:49:44.67+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 28,976 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

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…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,398 questions
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,506 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.
625 questions
asked 2021-03-08T20:49:35.53+00:00
Paul Guerra 6 Reputation points
answered 2024-03-12T15:19:22.49+00:00
Net Runner 415 Reputation points
6 answers

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…

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.
625 questions
asked 2021-05-21T09:53:35.99+00:00
steven h 101 Reputation points
answered 2024-03-07T07:44:24.6966667+00:00
Geo Xavier 0 Reputation points
2 answers

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…

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.
625 questions
asked 2024-02-28T21:12:35.31+00:00
simon lavigne 0 Reputation points
answered 2024-03-03T19:45:22.6+00:00
Net Runner 415 Reputation points
1 answer

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…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,398 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.
625 questions
asked 2023-08-11T14:56:54.5633333+00:00
sbr 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-03-01T12:58:44.7433333+00:00
Aldo Jesus Franco Guzman 0 Reputation points
1 answer

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…

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.
625 questions
asked 2024-02-22T05:53:45.6733333+00:00
Himanshu Pareek 1 Reputation point
answered 2024-02-26T07:50:09.7833333+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 28,976 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

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.…

SQL Server
SQL Server
A family of Microsoft relational database management and analysis systems for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.
12,486 questions
Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
11,933 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.
625 questions
asked 2024-02-20T16:28:13.2166667+00:00
Doug V 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2024-02-21T15:20:24.0333333+00:00
Alex Bykovskyi 1,681 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

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…

Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery
An Azure native disaster recovery service. Previously known as Microsoft Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager.
613 questions
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,506 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.
950 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.
625 questions
asked 2023-11-28T21:14:48.4133333+00:00
J Lindgren 25 Reputation points
commented 2024-02-19T17:47:30.72+00:00
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 36,406 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

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…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,398 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.
625 questions
asked 2023-10-18T08:25:33.96+00:00
Henning, Julien 0 Reputation points
answered 2024-02-16T17:27:52.99+00:00
Net Runner 415 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

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…

Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2019
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
3,398 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.
625 questions
asked 2023-08-30T03:49:52.2733333+00:00
Taro Iwata 20 Reputation points
commented 2024-02-16T08:17:03.79+00:00
Taro Iwata 20 Reputation points
2 answers

S2D cluster demotion

Hello Team, I have an s2d cluster, that was corrupted I want know to rebuild this cluster, but first i want to do a clean demotion of that cluster (Disabling of s2d - cluster disk cleanup -cleaning the nodes, cluster objects from the domain....etc) …

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,506 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.
625 questions
asked 2024-02-08T16:46:53.8866667+00:00
Mohamed jihad bayali 1,101 Reputation points
answered 2024-02-16T04:54:12.9066667+00:00
Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 28,976 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Storage Spaces Direct - Good Hyper-V host performance, poor guest VM Performance

Hey Everyone, I am building a 4-node cluster with Windows Server 2022, Hyper-V, and Storage Spaces Direct. Everything is going well except for storage performance for guest VMs, it is performing much slower than expected. In general, the Hyper-V hosts…

Hyper-V
Hyper-V
A Windows technology providing a hypervisor-based virtualization solution enabling customers to consolidate workloads onto a single server.
2,506 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.
625 questions
asked 2024-02-08T00:04:35.7766667+00:00
Rob Cowlthorp 20 Reputation points
edited a comment 2024-02-15T16:56:45.4566667+00:00
Rob Cowlthorp 20 Reputation points
1 answer

how to fix server to server storage replica failover issues

server to server Storage Replica secondary partner data volume not coming online when direction is switched powershell command just hangs SET-SRPartnership -NewSourceComputerName REG1MSFS0301 -SourceRGName DSS_SRP02_PRD -DestinationComputerName…

Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
11,933 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.
625 questions
asked 2023-12-23T20:58:23.6933333+00:00
Rick Davie 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2024-02-06T12:41:21.4+00:00
Net Runner 415 Reputation points
2 answers

How to fix storage spaces error No resiliency check the physical drives section?

the Power supply in my Windows 11 pro system Died and took 3 of my HD's with it. Those drives stopped showing at all in the BIOS. I removed them from the system / Retired them in Powershell / then ran " Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName ' ' …

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.
625 questions
asked 2024-01-15T09:15:01.9233333+00:00
Frank Kallal 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2024-02-06T11:56:58.4733333+00:00
Net Runner 415 Reputation points
5 answers

Storage Migration Service fails to start transfer

I am attempting to transfer file shares from a Server 2012 R2 file sharing server to a new Server 2019 server. They are both virtual machines running under VMware. I recently successfully performed this on two other identical systems without issue. I 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.
625 questions
asked 2021-11-09T13:41:32.96+00:00
G. Shearer 1 Reputation point
edited an answer 2024-02-06T09:51:40.91+00:00
Net Runner 415 Reputation points