Introduction Azure Files provides the capability to take share snapshots of file shares. Share snapshots capture the shared state at that point in time. The file share snapshots help to protect against an application error […]
Introduction A while ago, I wrote about how to copy data from one Azure storage account in one subscription to another storage account in another Azure subscription. In this blog post, I will show you […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2019, Microsoft introduced a brand new feature called Storage Migration Service (SMS). With SMS, you can migrate unstructured data from any Windows Server version (even Windows Server 2003 if you still […]
Introduction A while ago, I wrote about how to move VHD images from one Azure subscription to another. In this blog post, I will outline how to copy data from one Azure storage account in […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D enables building a highly available storage system with locally attached disks and without the need to have […]
Warning! This article is written for lab and demo purposes, it’s not supported in production. Happy New Year folks! Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2019, Microsoft introduced a brand new feature called Storage Migration Service (SMS). With SMS, you can migrate unstructured data from any Windows Server version (even Windows Server 2003 if you still […]
I recently did a 2 Nodes Storage Spaces Direct Hyper-Converged deployment on top of DELL EMC PowerEdge R740xd Ready Nodes. In this quick blog post, I would like to share with you my experience and […]
Introduction CloudBerry Explorer for Microsoft Azure is the first cloud file explorer that natively supports Microsoft Azure’s latest blob storage tier Archival Blob Storage. Back in December 2017, Microsoft announced their latest flagship of storage […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct (aka S2D). S2D enables building highly available storage systems with local attached disks, and without the need to have […]
Introduction Azure Automated Backup allows you to schedule regular backups for all databases on a SQL Server Azure IaaS VM. Backups are stored in Azure storage for up to 30 days. SQL Server 2016 and […]
Introduction Starting with SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2 or later, you can point SQL Server backups directly to the Azure Blob storage service. You can use this functionality to back up to and restore from […]
Introduction I was working recently on System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager (SC DPM) that has some free space problems on the Modern Backup Storage (MBS) volume in Windows Server 2016. The DPM Server is deployed in a VM […]
Introduction Physical disks often experience errors of varying severity, from errors that the disk can transparently recover from, without interruption or data loss; to errors that are catastrophic and can cause data loss such as […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D enables building a highly available storage systems with local attached disks, and without the need to have […]
Introduction In Azure Stack, you have the option to retain storage accounts after they have been deleted. However, public Azure does not offer this feature. When a user deletes a storage account in Azure, the […]
Introduction In System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager, the DPM team announced a new backup storage technology called Modern Backup Storage (MBS). MBS helps achieving 50% storage savings using ReFS technology, and 3 times faster backup using ReFS block […]
Introduction With the release of Microsoft System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager (SC DPM), DPM team announced Modern Backup Storage (MBS), delivering 50% storage savings, 3x faster backups, and efficient backup storage utilization with Workload Aware […]
Warning! This article is written for lab and demo purposes, it’s not supported to be used in production and is neither supported by Microsoft, HPE nor myself. Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a […]
Introduction A while ago, I wrote a blog post on how to create a Two-way Mirror Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2. In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new storage solution called Storage […]
Introduction You deployed a new shiny Storage Spaces Direct cluster and everything is running smoothly. During the planning phase, you missed to add an additional network that you might use to isolate certain type of […]
I recently did a 2 Nodes Storage Spaces Direct Hyper-Converged deployment using SSDs & HDDs on top of HPE DL380 Gen9 servers. I used the following hardware configuration: 2 Nodes Cluster – Hardware Platform HPE […]
Introduction Recently I was upgrading some Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts to Windows Server 2016. I have Storage Tiered Spaces with mirroring resiliency deployed on those Hyper-V 2012 R2 hosts. For info about Storage […]
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