storage spaces - 4 disk mirror size?
I am using storage spaces with the pool consisting of:disk 1 - 2tbdisk 2 - 2tbdisk 3 - 1tbdisk 4 - 1tbI created a virtual disk with a two way mirror, the usable space is somthing like 1.82 TB....I...
View ArticleHow to know a given partition is busy or not?
I am working on Windows Server 2012 storage space and i am trying to dump a consistent image of application on a volume.I shutdown the application instance but it might have some running background...
View ArticleFile getting auto erased
I have a shared file on my windows server that capture the responses from network. But unfortunately that file is getting refreshed after some interval. Sometime it shows 44 Kb size later become 4 and...
View ArticleMove SoFS cluster storage
Hi,I'm thinking about a scenario that is as follows: I have a SoFS cluster using iSCSI shared storage and clustered storage spaces. The underlying hardware providing the iSCSI CSVs are being replaced...
View ArticleDFS Replication
Hi Dear friends ,We want to deploy a scenario with server 2012 . We have İstanbul Office in Turkey and we will set an another Office in Londra in next time.We want to sync all folders from İstanbul...
View ArticleCan Work Folders be used for user home drives?
Looking to setup server based home drives for user data and wondering if Work Folders would work for that.
View ArticleCan I force a new replication partner to seed from a local DFS partner
I administer an organization with 7 offices, 6 of which run W2008 and the 7th, the HO runs 2003R2. Between all of the offices there are several fully meshed replication groups setup to replicate...
View ArticlePre-installed operating system
I bought a HP server with pre-installed windows server R2. My questions is: do I need to buy the CD full version of windows server R2 ?.
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 SMB 3.0 Multichannel issue
Hi Expert,The server consists of 6 network adapters:NIC1/NIC2 is a NIC teaming for public communication, both are GB NICs.NIC3/NIC4 is configured for storage network, both are GB NICs.NIC5 is for...
View ArticleHow to transfer file shares from one server to other
Dear All,In our office we have one DC cum file server and OS is Windows 2003 and we have new with OS server 2008 r2 Domain controller. So we need to transfer the files and folders with sharing and...
View Article2012 R2 Clustering with SMB
Since I have found that I need a cluster without Hyper-V for file sharing services, how do I create virtual switched to connect to VLANs without Hyper-V?
View ArticleVery poor Random IO performance of 24 HDD Mirror-2 CSV on Win2012 R2
We already have a 2 separate Win2012 Mirror-2 Storage Clusters (in production) and had noted that performance was very poor.We were looking to upgrade to Win2012R2 and storage tiering, we wanted to...
View Articlereplacing a failed disk in storage space ! unable to remove a retired disk
Hi Folks Not really asking for much !! we are using windows 2012 R2 storage space ; one disk failed and marked as retired. today we received replacement disk ; added that to storage pool - fine....
View ArticleBacking up iSCSI Initiator settings
Simple question, but I have been searching for an hour without anything definitive. Is it possible to backup the configuration settings of iSCSI initiator so that I can import then into a system?The...
View ArticleDisk space issues in Windows Server 2012 R2
Hello,I'm running a VM with Windows Server 2012 R2 as a file server.After the system was running fine for several months, the winsxs folder started to grow (specially winsxs\pendingdeletes and...
View ArticleSMB Direct multichannel and asymmetric number of rNIC between SOFS and...
Hello, I'm planning to deploy a SOFS with clustered storage space to store VM workloads.Hyper-V Cluster nodes will access the SOFS nodes using 2x 10Gbps rNICI would like to configure my SOFS nodes with...
View ArticleFiltered ports vulnarble?
Hello, i am pentesting anserver and i waswondering if the Filtered ports are still vuln?I've run an NMAP of the server and i got around 4 filtered ports135/tcp filtered msrpc 139/tcp filtered...
View ArticleDFS-R Staging on WinSvr 2012
I have 2 questions about DFS-R staging.#1 When using my backup software to perform the restore, do I have to restore the folder or the files or either...?#2 Since a target folder is across the Internet...
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Extend C partition
Hi,I have a disk that I had previously partitioned so that I had a separate system drive and data drive.My system drive is filling up though so I shrunk my data drive and intended to extend my system...
View ArticleDFS-R between 2008 R2 and 2012
Hello,Could somebody please tell me that it is possible to configure DFS replication between 2012 as a source and 2008R2 as a target??thanks
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