Questions tagged [storage-spaces]

Question 1

(The question is at the end) I have a live server with Server 2016 Standard. The C: drive keeps filling up and causing issues. I have a Backplane with 7 drives, and we are using MegaRAID Storage ...

Question 2

I'm trying to build out some RAID arrays on a Windows 2022 server using Storage Spaces. I have 6 HDDs in a DAS enclosure connected to the computer via USB. Per the Get-PhysicalDisk utility, 4 of them ...

Question 3

I am facing issues while enabling Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) on my Windows Server setup. Here are the details of my setup and the problem encountered: Server Setup: Server 1: Domain Controller ...

Question 4

I have two very fast, write intensive NVMe SSDs, and many slower SATA SSDs. Using Windows Server 2019 (but happy to upgrade to 2022 if it helps). What I want to do is to build a virtual disk with two ...

Question 5

My PC has a Tiered Windows Storage setup that can't tier-optimise any more. Tier optimisation has worked fine for many years but has recently started failing, with errors reported by both defrag and ...

Question 6

For some reason I have a Windows Storage Space storage pool on Windows Server 2019 showing as warning / degraded, even though all the disks, virtual disks and volumes are fine and showing no warning. ...

Question 7

I have a Storage Pool of four NVMe drives. One of them shows strange status: Get-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName "ADATA*" Number FriendlyName SerialNumber ...

Question 8

I have a storage pool on my Windows 11 system that is configured like this. I want to remove one of the physical disks from this pool. From the UI, it seems I can only Extend the pool size. From ...

Question 9

HPE Proliant DL380 Gen10 with Windows Server 2019 Standard. I want to use NVMe disks with Storage Spaces (not Direct aka S2D). The disk is HPE P50228-B21 3.2TB NVMe Gen4 High Performance Mixed Use SFF ...

Question 10

i've been using storing spaces since many many years now and thought I understood how it works. Recently, i got hands on a decomissioned 24-bay SAN and decided to modify it a bit to be used with my (...

Question 11

Get-StoragePool -IsPrimordial $False | Add-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $True) Failure Image Available Disk CanPool is True Can help me please Show physical disk image disk ...

Question 12

I got a microsoft storage spaces which using 4 disks and acting as RAID0, recently I found one of them failed. I knew I should add a new disk into this space and kick the failed one out, but instead, ...

Question 13

We erroneously added a P40 disk to our (marketplace) Azure Sql server / virtual machine. We tried removing it following the process described in following articales https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/...

Question 14

I've got a fileserver running Windows Server and I'm using the storage pool technology to create volumes where I store the files. I tried to move some files from one of the volumes to another but I ...

Question 15

Team, I am working in a production environment and stumbled into a case where, a 3TB space from Storage has already been mounted and used for particular volume group called "ipdata_vg". Now ...

Question 16

Assuming I have enabled in BIOS a (presumably) hardware RAID in mirror aka RAID1 mode (as opposed to Software-one provided by the OS like Windows Storage Spaces), how is it actually ensuring data ...

Question 17

I try to create a S2D with my HP DL380 Smart Array B140i. I have all bays with SSDs and want to use bays 5-8 for a S2D. I need to configure the array controllor (or the BIOS?) to make the drives ...

Question 18

We have a S2D Storage Spaces Direct cluster that we are wanting to add a General Purpose File Server to. Is it possible to use the S2D Cluster Shared Volume for the File Server role ? When i try and ...

Question 19

We have on Azure several Windows Server 2019 virtual machines whose data disks are configured with Storage Spaces. How can we extend a virtual disk configured for simple redundancy (NumberOfDataCopies ...

Question 20

I've got an old 5x5TB storage pool that I am convinced I set up with two-way parity at the time but now it seems is actually just one-way parity that right now refuses to function anymore. One disk ...

Question 21

Im tasked with configured a windows server to used tiered storage using the following disks 4x 900 GB SSDs 10x 2.2TB HDDs The SSD tier would be configured using parity with 1 redundant disk and the ...

Question 22

I have a cluster of three ProLiant DL380p Gen8 servers with Windows Server 2019 OS. After Predictive failure warning on one of the physical drives, I retired it (Set-PhysicalDisk -Usage Retired) and ...

Question 23

At some point in the past, Storage Space on a Windows Server 2012 box decided to "Retire" two drives in the pool: I don't want the drives to be retired. I want you to keep using them. How ...

Question 24

I would very much appreciate your help! I am new to Storage Spaces and RAID in general and I would like to have a fail-safe drive configuration using 3 drives - 1x4TB and 2x2TB on a Windows Server ...

Question 25

I'm currently exploring using Storage Spaces to create a mirrored volume. In benchmarking it against a mirrored volume created with diskpart, I notice that I'm getting twice the throughput on reads. I'...

Question 26

I was running low disk space in my server which is using the storage from an HP 3 PAR storage. There are some unallocated space and i have created around 100 GB space to extend my volume. After ...

Question 27

On my Windows Server I found folder C:\FusionLogs that occupies a lot of Gigabytes on my disk. Can I delete files from this folder to obtain freee disk space?

Question 28

We would like to build two-node File Server Cluster with Shared Storage on VM. The issues is that our vmware set up doesn't support disk sharing. File server cluster must be available all the time of ...

Question 29

I just physically moved my home lab from one house to another and my storage space for my primary array will not re-attach. The message I get is "Error attaching or detaching virtual disk: ...

Question 30

I have been reading through the documentation for Windows Storage Spaces, trying to understand drive provisioning for parity storage spaces. What isn't exactly clear to me is whether the number of ...

Question 31

this may have been asked several times but till now I can't find a decent answer I am configuring a server for a hyper-v setup with around 5 VM look for the best solution performance and redundancy-...

Question 32

I'm trying to run an Ethereum full node (geth v1.10) with archiving for big data analysis. The storage requirements are expected to be 8TB after being fully sync'd. I have a Synology NAS that is ...

Question 33

Getting this report but can't find any usefull info how to bind these disk back together: Get-Cachediskstatus.ps1 ---------------------------------------- Node: NAS13 DiskState DiskName ...

Question 34

How to find the Mirror Resiliency level for Virtual Disks in Storage Spaces using Powershell? eg. 2-way mirror or 3-way mirror

Question 35

Two parts question: I have Simple Storage Space consisting of 3 small old SSDs which I created long time ago and barely used since. Now I wanted to remove one physical drive but even though 2 of 3 ...

Question 36

I have a Win 10 pro machine with one storage spaces pool. There are 6 disks: one with host OS, 4 disks are part of storage pool, last one is problematic. Problem I can not add the last disk to a ...

Question 37

I have Windows 10 Pro with one storage pool (2 way mirror out of 4 disks) when I run get-storagepool command I see there is another strange storage pool Primordial which I did not create. FriendlyName ...

Question 38

Failing to create a virtual disk in Server 2019 due to 2 of the 6 drives having unknown MediaType. Tried setting media type whilst they are in and out of the pool but always same error: Set-...

Question 39

I have a windows failover cluster running Server 2016 for a SQL 2017 Enterprise Availability Group. We have no shared disks on the server, just separate storage on each machine for the SQL AG. On both ...

Question 40

guys I have one san storage with 30 8TB hard drive and I want to use it as storage for old video of our site, those videos are for peoples who uploaded them on our site by the way our site is like ...

Question 41

We are running SQL Server on ec2 and have assembled a Storage Space from multiple EBS volumes to hold the databases. This has been working better than we'd anticipated. But I'd like to explore ...

Question 42

I'm trying to figure out the best way to architect a 2 node fail over cluster with the Hyper V role installed. I can really use some input and suggestions from others who have already been down this ...

Question 43

i am looking use storage spaces and SSD for my DELL R730, i have a PCIe to SSD adapter (and cannot use RAID controller as all bays are full). My question relates to the SSDs themselves, i know RAID-5 ...

Question 44

We are preparing a new storage infrastructure and are wondering if there is a maximum size limit for ISCSI volumes on Debian. In our experience, on Windows there is a limit of 16TB for such volumes.

Question 45

// short update at the bottom // another update is near the bottom to reply to a suggested edit So, at first I had this idea: Find a virtual driver to set up and use software raid on windows. Result: ...

Question 46

Hoping someone can assist. We've got two physical servers running 2016 running running a failover cluster manager environment. Each server has the following hard disks installed. 6 x 600GB 15k SAS on ...

Question 47

We host our Windows Server 2016 Virtual Machines on Azure and I am having a problem to expand one Virtual Disk on the Storage Pool after having expanded the disk on Azure. The Virtual Disk is a ...

Question 48

I have 8 disks in a Storage Spaces pool with a single virtual disk carved out of it. I recently re-installed the OS which WAS Server 2012 R2 but am now using Windows 10 Education edition with all the ...

Question 49

After rebooting for patches this week, my main storage pool is not showing up in Server Manger. no drives were removed all drives are visible in Device Manager no drive errors are reported shutdown ...

Question 50

I am currently experimenting a bit with Microsoft Storage Spaces on Win10 Pro. I currently have a pool of 5 x 8 TB Seagate Ironwolf. Within that pool I created a parity protected virtual Disk, 8TB in ...