Volumes disappeared from DFS replication
Hi all,Recently I set up DFS replication on Windows 2012 Std Server. Few days ago I tried to connect the 3rd server to this replication and found out that all volumes except C:\ drive are disappeared...
View ArticleWebdav and performance
Hi,I have some questions about webdav. We are about to use Webdav to access files for our application that is a Client-Server application. We are using quite lot of files access. Everything is working...
View Articleserver 2012 running at 100% Highest Active Time contineously
I set up a new server 2012 R2 and the server is very slow. CPU and RAM usage is low but the Resource Monitor shows that Disk is 100% for "Highest Active Time" on the 10MB/S scale, while Disk I/O is...
View Article"I/O Other Bytes" by the system process is too high
Hello everyonethe description of the performance counter "I/O Other Bytes" is "The number of bytes transferred in input/output operations generated by a process that are neither reads nor writes,...
View Articlecommand line to automate disk management in 2008 R2
Hi, I am looking for some command line tools to allow me to manage disks in Windows 2008 R2. My idea is to automate some task, such as importing foreign disks, so that I can schedule the task in a...
View ArticleAccess Based Enumeration on CAD /Design Files 2008 R2
Hi,I'm currently having some issues with our Windows Server 2008 R2 File Cluster, where the System Process is chugging along @ 80-95% CPU, which I personally find strange. After 2-3 hours of this type...
View ArticleFile Resource Manager Reports with Deduplication
I recently setup a file server running Server 2012 R2 with deduplication turned on. When I run the "Files by Owner" report in File Server Resource Manager, I'm getting post-dedup results. For...
View ArticleStorage Spaces vs Plain-Old-Partitions on single-spindle 300GB drive
When I originally installed my first WS2012 system (running WSUS, DHCP, WDS), I created simple volumes on the drive as I've always done. OS is installed on a 150GB drive, and I have a second 300GB...
View ArticleiSCSI targets left behind by vss provider?
Hello all,I have a Windows Server 2012 Failover cluster running a number of virtual machines. Storage for the cluster is provided by a Windows Storage Server 2012 instance and mapped to the nodes via...
View ArticleWindows 2012 iSCSI Target configuration
Hi,I'm looking at setting up a Windows 2012 R2 iSCSI storage server (target), that will act as storage to an Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster.In each of the Hyper-V hosts, I have 2 dedicated 1Gbps NICs....
View Articlehidden share Folder Permission can't access
hi guys,i got a strange things,i shared a folder with the name UDA$ in server 2008 R2,but in client, domain users can't access this folder in this way:\\dc01\UDA$,It showed no permission to access,but...
View Article2008 R2/ Win7 Offline Files Sync causing High Load on server
Hi Everyone, I have recently been investigating extremely high CPU Usage from the System Process on my company's main File Cluster.We managed to track SRV2.sys Threads causing high CPU load within the...
View ArticleDFS Namespace for Multiple users
Hi Guys,I am having several doubts over using a DFS. In our company we have more than 20 shared folders and it is getting hard for the IT Admins to control the drive maps. However the shares are mostly...
View ArticleDeduplication/VSS Problem
Hey everybody,we have a strange Problem gettint Deduplication running on our System.We have a freshly installed System. It has a Fibre Channel RAID connected via a QLogic FC Controller.On this we have...
View Article2012 NFS share for single UNIX accout
Hi!I have Windows 2012 domain and Windows 2012 NFS file share. I need to grant RW access to single UNIX account for this NFS share. Should I implement identity mapping services for unix or can I do it...
View ArticleWS2008 R2 - Invalid dynamic disk
I have a software RAID5 array in Windows Server 2008 R2. 5x4TB drives. After clean shutdown all the disks in disk management are listed as invalid. When I try to reactivate any of them I get this...
View ArticleHow do I make Storage Spaces utilize all available space?
HeyI came across an issue with my storage space a little while ago when I created it, I didn't even bother as I had free space,The total space isn't huge but with 2 drives, one being 640gb, while the...
View ArticlePerformance problems with DFSN, ABE and SMB
Hello, We have identified a problem with DFS-Namespace (DFSN), Access Based Enumeration (ABE) and SMB File Service. Currently we have two Windows Server 2008 R2 servers providing the domain-based DFSN...
View ArticleVirtual Disk disappeared
Hi there, I have a storage pool containing 3x2TB physcial disks: one WD and two Seagate. Pool have 2 virtual disks: Data (mirrored) and Temp (Simple). After some time Temp drive disappeared from the...
View ArticleIs Volume Shaw Copy useful for a WRITE only System ?
Hi,We are considering setting up Volume Shadow Copy for a Windows Volume that contains Records Management System documents.More than 99% time, we only WRITE to that volume. Only a few will be retrived...
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