Hi

We are looking at Microsoft Hyper-V with Storage Spaces to replace our VMware infrastructure. I would like to ask if anyone is running this in a production environment and would be willing to share their experience.

We are looking at having 2 separate clusters (2 sites). Each environment is likely to be running around 40-50 Virtual servers. The most IO intensive being exchange and a SQL cluster(not large databases, I'd like a reasonable IO capability). Standard File servers, web, print etc with normal corporate usage. 

We had a conference with a Solutions provider, they were quite negative on Microsoft SS. I am a tech myself and am not inclined to make judgement calls based off one persons opinion, especially when they admit to no real world operational experience.(outside of a few installations)

I would appreciate any feedback people are willing to offer.

Thanks

Nyobi

Hi,

I have a NAS device in my home network (Drobo 5N ... https://www.drobo.com/docs/start-drobo-5n/), running the latest firmware. I use my Drobo to store media files (FLAC, MP3 and movies).

Today I just noticed that I have some specific files that I am unable to copy from my NAS device via Windows Explorer to my Windows 10 laptop machine. These are .wav files that I had downloaded from the internet (specifically, I bought a vinyl record of a band that I like, A Perfect Circle, and I received a code in the vinyl packaging that allowed me to download high definition .wav files of the album from their website).

When I downloaded these .wav files originally, I downloaded them to my Macbook Air and then uploaded them from my Macbook to the Drobo from there. I've done this before with other files though, and no problem.

When trying to copy these files from the Drobo to my Windows machine I get the following error:

"An unexpected error is keeping you from copying the file. If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem. Error 0x80070490: Element not found."

I am running Windows 10 Enterprise, Version 10.0.17763 Build 17763. It is a Dell laptop.

I also just tried to copy the file from the NAS device to a Windows 2016 server machine that I also have in my network, and I am getting the same error.

I just tried via FTP to download the files from my NAS device to my Windows machine ... that worked (and the .wav files play perfectly)! So, I only seem to get the error via Windows Explorer.

I am able to stream the .wav files to a music player on my laptop (specifically, the open source music app VLC), and they play correctly! I can also successfully copy them back from the NAS device to my Macbook Air!

I am not having issues copying most other files to and from the NAS device to my windows machine. I have about 2TB of files on there, and a random sample of tests show me that most will copy. It just seems to be a certain group of .wav files (again, that I didn't create originally). They start the copy process, and then it seems to fail right at the end.

If I look at the properties of the files through windows explorer (i.e. through \\NASdevice\share\folder\filename.wav), I don't see anything special; all properties of the files like Read-only, Hidden and Archive are not selected. Security looks the same as all the other files (including the ones I am able to copy).

Any ideas of things that I can try?

I created a 100Gb partition for the OS and 400Gb as a D: drive

I thought that 100Gb was enough until I realized that the server was backing up the clients and left me with 0 bytes free on C:

I went to the Storage management and tried to manipulated the folders from within ServerFolders and got errors with all tasks.

I tried creating a new folder: got an error.I Tried moving folders: error with sometimes: missing folders while I did check it. It was present.

Can you tell me why this sections is completely unmanageable... ??? It goes without saying that I am logged in as Admin.

My main goal is to move the Client backup folder to D:. 

Thanks 

Christopher

Christopher

Since two days ago I see a lot of errors with Event ID = 3008 in Event Viewer

• Event Viewer > Applications and Services > Microsoft > Windows > SyncShare > Operational

Error 3008 - The Windows Sync Share service failed to detect changes to a sync partnership. User folder name: \\?\G:\WORKFOLDERS\JOHND; Error code: (0x8e5e01fe) Unable to read from or write to the database.

How to solve this ?

Server restart solves only temporarily (for few hours)...

I have Primary server and IIS site is running. I have created Secondary server and installed IIS.

How can I Sync Web site files  from Primary server to secondary server?

Bothe the servers are in Azure and different region/location.

Can any one help me on this issue?

Thanks and Regards

Balu

IT Admin

Hi all,

I have a Windows Server 2016 version 1607 (build 142393.2035) which is member of AD domain environment. This server is used as file server and a folder is shared. Under this shared folder there are folders that I'm setting NTFS permissions. I'm adding groups for NTFS permissions and removing usernames including my own admin account. I was able to do this on some folders but not all of them. I remove my account, I click OK... Then I check back NTFS permissions and my admin account is back in NTFS permissions. I cannot remove myself from NTFS permissions. I already checked inheritance, it is disabled. Any ideas for this behaviour?

Many thanks

Emrah

Hi,

I'm building a storage server with a 12-port SAS3 12Gbps single-expander backplane, which supports up to 8x 3.5-inch SAS3/SATA3 HDD/SSD and 4x NVMe/SAS3/SATA3 storage devices.

The operating system will be Windows Server 2016.

I plan to create a storage pool and a two-way mirror virtual disk with tiered storage, consisting of 4 NVME SSD drives and 6 SAS3 HDD.

In case an NVMe drive would fail, I would have no possibility to first add a new one and afterwards remove the faulty one (because all 4 NVMe slots are occupied).

Could I do as follows?

Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName <diskname> -Usage Retired

Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName <virtualdiskname>

Wait for the repair job to finish; follow with:

Get-StorageJob

$PDToRemove = Get-PhysicalDisk -Friendlyname <diskname>
Remove-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks $PDToRemove -StoragePoolFriendlyName <poolname>

Physically remove the faulty NVMe SSD and replace with a new NVMe SSD.

Get the FriendlyName of the new NVMe SSD:

Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $True

Add the new NVMe SSD to the storage pool:

$PDToAdd = Get-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName <diskname>
Add-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks $PDToAdd -StoragePoolFriendlyName <poolname> -Usage AutoSelect

Repair the virtual disk:

Repair-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName <virtualdiskname>

If the SSD is recognised correctly (MediaType is SSD), will it automatically be part of the fast tier?

Let's say that, after some time, I'd wish to replace the 4 NVMe drives by a newer generation of NVMe drives. Could I replace them one by one as described above or would that mess up the Virtual Disk?

Thanks,

AG

I'm using Shadow Copy on my drive which contains file share with cca 1 TB of data.

I set the limit for Shadow Copy to 60GB. I also set the schedule to take the snapshot 5 times per day.

My questions are:

1. How I can know how many days (or how many snapshots) I'm covered with thelimit I set ?

2. Is it possible to configure a separate drive where Shadow Copy snapshots are stored ? In this case I could add additional drive for Shadow Copy snapshots and there I could have bigger limit...

Many thanks !

Rob Walker

I have 2x 2016 S2D servers with the exact same configuration.

Each one has the following

2x Intel E5-2630v3

196GB Ram

2x Samsung PM1725 1.6TB PCIe NVME disks for Cache (https://www.samsung.com/us/labs/pdfs/collateral/pm1725-ProdOverview-2015.pdf)

Then each server has a 12GB HBA, which connects to an MD1420 in JBODmode. In the JBOD there are

4x Samsung PM1635a W5PP5 1.6TB 2.5" SSDs (https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/dell-poweredge-sas-ssd-performance-specifications.pdf)

10x 1tb 7.2k disks SEAGATE ST91000640SS (these are hardly used as i still have performance capacity to spare)

My CSV is configured with tiered the cache, performance and capacity and my cache modes are HDD - ReadWrite, SSD - WriteOnly.

According to Dell all hardware is up to date both for drivers and firmware.

My Performance tier has 4 columns so i would expect to get performance at least of the 4x ssds (800K iops random 4k read and 280K iops random 4k write). Probably more due to the cache.

However i have booted a machine up direct on the S2D cluster and when i run speed tests on cystalmark i get the following results.

Random 4k Read Queue depth 8 Threads 8 - 101MB 25k IOPS

Random 4k Write Queue depth 8 Threads 8 - 55MB 13k IOPS

Random 4k Read Queue depth 1 Threads 32 - 47MB 11k IOPS

Random 4k Write Queue depth 1 Threads 1 - 28MB 7k IOPS

Using diskspeed and the commands diskspd.exe -t8 -b4k -r4k -o32 -w0 -d10 -D -L -c2G testfile.dat testfile1.dat testfile2.dat

i get 660MBs and 170k IOPS

diskspd.exe -t8 -b4k -r4k -o32 -w100 -d10 -D -L -c2G testfile.dat testfile1.dat testfile2.dat

i get 110MBs and 30k IOPS

These are well below what i thought i should be getting. How can i troubleshoot these issues?

Thanks in advance for any replies!

Hello Experts,

I am facing issue with File Share over internet. I have a Server 2016 instance in AWS and I created few Shared Folders on that Server.

I am able to access those Shared Folder over public IP <\\Public IP\Share> from Server 2016 hosted in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud but unable to access the Shared Folder from Windows 10. I have enclosed the Windows Diagnostics Log here.

While troubleshooting the issue, I tried below steps but no luck. Please advice...

Allowed all traffics in AWS Security Group

Disabled Windows Firewall on Windows 2016 as well as Windows 10

Enabled SMB 1.0/CIFS Client on Windows 10

Tried to Telnet on port 445 but it was a failure

Disabled StrictNameChecking and SMB2Protocol on Server 2016. I used below commands:

Set-SmbServerConfiguration –EnableStrictNameChecking $False

Set-SmbServerConfiguration –EnableSMB2Protocol $False

Thanks & Regards, Prosenjit Sen.

 second Dc controller is shown private network

and error in operations mater rules

and in the event viewer, these events appear:

and this link for Dcdiag, and DC Ipconfig and replication.

https://1drv.ms/f/s!Ag-u-xMhnkazgm8g2xdDHBiNyqKg

Hello,

I want to apply quota email notifications on some existing folders on windows server 2012 r2. The problem is when I mark more than one folder, the option edit quota properties is not available. Is there some other way to edit gouta notifications on multiple folders. I'd like to mark that folders do not have same quota limit(some are 2, some 5, some 10 gb hard quota...). The second part of my question is... I previously set owners of folder, what I would like is to set qouta notifications so that when some % of qouta is exceeded that also owner of that folder gets notification. So we are clear I do not want to type adress of owner, but insert it as Variable.

Thanks in advance,

Marko

I am having issues with trying to save Word and Excel files to a mapped network drive on local domain. When trying to save the word document or excel file I get the error "Windows cannot access \\Server\Folder..."  "You do not have permission to access \\Server\Folder. Contact your network administrator to request access." This cannot be true because the user has full access to said mapped network drive "\\Server\Folder". The user also has access to create a new word document from the network drive "\\Server\Folder" but when opening the document they are not able to save the file due to same error. I called in for Microsoft support and the support agent told me that Microsoft Office Home and Business 2019 is not for domains or commercial businesses. I can assume they must have been mistaken. The office application is pre-installed from Dell and it is installed on a Windows 10 Pro OS. 

Hi,

I have set up 2 nodes failover cluster using amazon ec2  instances and storage spaces(2 x windows 2016 servers).

After I resize physical disk I am not sure if it is possible to see this change in storage pool.

If I run command Get-PhysicalDisk it is showing to me the same size.

I upgrade a server from 2016 to 2019. After the upgrade one of my Storage Spaces drives went missing. The drives are showing in Device Manger but aren't showing Disk Management and the Storage Pool is gone. At first I thought the problem was a cheap controller (4 Port SATA in home test server) wasn't being supported in Server 2019. I swapped out with a LSI SATA / SAS card that has certified drivers. Still having same problem. All 4 disks are showing this error in device manager:

I have 2 storage spaces HDDs (6TB+8TB for a total of 14TB to store our production photos) that are causing Windows 10 to be stuck at spinning dots at boot. There hasn't been recent changes to hardware or Windows update, but a routine reboot caused the PC not to start. Eventually by unplugging components and peripherals one by one I realised if I unplug the two HDDs used for Storage Spaces the system will boot.

But once unplugged and boot into the system, I can't see anything from Storage Spaces control panel screen -- it's empty as if no storage spaces have ever been created (no missing disk message etc). From the logs C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs I couldn't find any errors related to StorageSpaces.  Any suggestions on how I could further diagnose the issue?

I need to write this article so bear with me because this is important.

I've been working on servers for almost 20 years now since I was really young in fact, I've been through Windows 9x/NT/2000/Me/XP/03/Vista/08/7/2012/2016/2019 so I do know my way around Windows by now, I also use macOS and Linux extensively.

Back when I was young my idea of a storage server was finding any Pentium 3 around the house hook up whatever leftover hard drive i could find and setup a dynamic raid1 on Windows, which is great because you can then have that machine doing things like running FTP client or downloading files specially when you had a slow internet connection. 

A few years later I had a datacentre business. I now have my place here at home and I got a server room for my personal needs, and i'm looking for a storage solution which by now I would assume Storage Spaces would be that solution but it seems the more I try to get into ReFS and Storage Spaces the less happy I become.

So here's my first part of the problem: 

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/de40dadc-0363-44ab-b67e-f63f087784d6/dont-trust-storage-spaceswindows-2019-with-your-data?forum=winserverfiles 

TLDR: Windows Server 2019 Datacenter doesn't work for Storage Spaces despite being the current Windows Server iteration.

But how is that possible? Windows Server has always been the better and more stable version of Windows, it has always served the purpose for businesses and server applications and people rely on it, so how can we not have a reliable storage solution?

ReFS is not available anymore on Desktop versions of windows and you need Windows 10 for Workstations to manage ReFS but to use all the redundancy and resilience features you need Windows Server so as far I'm concerned to get the whole experience you need Windows Server. 

I have two storage boxes here in my home, both running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter. Now I did create the storage arrays from Windows Server 2016 because microsoft still hasn't fixed that problem in the latest update which makes me wonder how seriously they're taking their problems with Storage Spaces/ReFS and how concerned they are about our data integrity. But now my second server I literally got 4 5TB hard drives yesterday and put them in Parity, went to sleep and left a network file transfer when i wake up it shows 2 of the drives as failed. I've seen this problem before whenever the access time/latency goes too high the whole array just gives up and crashes so i turned the computer off and back on to fix it, which usually does but now it's just stuck as unhealthy. 

So you go to the interface and right click, repair only to find the disks aren't reading/writing anything and the job is 'running' even though nothing is happening:

PS C:\Windows\system32> get-storagejob

Name                               IsBackgroundTask ElapsedTime JobState PercentComplete BytesProcessed BytesTotal
----                               ---------------- ----------- -------- --------------- -------------- ----------
DASH-H-SV4-STD1-H-SPP-Repair       False            00:28:08    Running  0                          0 B      32 GB
DASH-H-SV4-STD1-H-SPP-Regeneration True             00:28:04    New      0                          0 B      32 GB


PS C:\Windows\system32>

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Now think of it this way, I have a lot of SAS controllers here that are raid only, i'm actually going out of my way to buy HBAs that support drive passthrough just so that I can use a modern filesystem like ReFS/ZFS to store my data with more peace of mind. 

But now, does this look to you more reliable than an old fashioned RAID6? I mean I've had hardware raid arrays for more than a decade and never had anything remotely related to what's happening here, never had to go through all this pain to get my data to even 'show up', rebuilding is as simple as popping in a new drive in the same slot and fully automatic.

Am I missing something? Oh and of course dynamic drives disk manager/software raid that if your server crashes will have to resync for hours for no reason. So should we be asking about me not doing something right or about Microsoft not really doing storage right for as far as I can remember. 

I would love to hear some feedback on this and should I start moving my data to FreeNAS or Linux? Or will there ever be a solution to this.

In the official documentation for Storage Spaces on Microsoft's site, the article called "Deploy Storage Spaces" posted 7-8-2018 (which also says it applies to Windows Server 2019) found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/deploy-standalone-storage-spaces

In the section titled "Disk Bus Types" it shows support for the following:

- Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
- Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
- iSCSI and Fibre Channel Controllers

WHY is NVME not listed ?