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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 If you have been in IT for while, you probably aware about how power is important for your Datacenter. I’m not sure about how many times I’ve read or been told that power is […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft added a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D enables building highly available storage systems with local attached disks, and without the need to have any […]
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 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 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 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 […]
Updated 29/11/2016: [Script updated to create simple storage pool for DPM.] Updated 09/02/2017: [Announcing backups of SQL Server 2016 and SharePoint 2016 with DPM 2016 Update Rollup 2. DPMDB can also be hosted on SQL Server 2016]. […]
Hello folks, In the previous post, I showed you how to deploy Hyper-V Extended Port ACLs in VMM Update Rollup 8. In today’s post, we will continue and cover the second feature in VMM UR8 […]
Hello folks, In today’s blog post, I will share with you how to create a virtualized shared storage for Hyper-V using StarWind Software Inc and Scale-out File Server (SoFS). Scale-out File Server (SoFS) is a clustered […]
[Updated: December 6th, 2015 – Nano Server 2016 Technical Preview 4 support] Nano Server is a new installation option in Windows Server 2016 built for the cloud. It has been announced by Microsoft in April 2015 and […]
This post was edited/updated on April 5, 2015. (How to upgrade HP Store Virtual VSA from V11.0 to V12.0 on Hyper-V 2012 R2 Cluster with SCVMM). Hello Folks, In this blog post, we will cover the […]
Introduction After nearly one year of System Center 2019 release, Microsoft just announced the Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2019 and with it comes SCDPM 2019 Update Rollup 1 as well. This is the […]
Introduction Windows Admin Center (WAC) is a flexible, locally-deployed, browser-based management platform and solution. It contains core tools for troubleshooting, configuration, management and maintenance for Windows Server, Windows Client, Software-Defined Storage (SDS), Software-Defined Network (SDN), […]
Happy New Year folks!!! What a great day to start the year 2020… Introduction Starting with Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct which is now part of […]
Lately, I was working with a customer on an existing 2-nodes Storage Spaces Direct cluster (a.k.a Azure Stack HCI). The existing nodes are running on Windows Server 2019. The customer fires up Failover Cluster Manager […]
Introduction In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft introduced a new type of storage called Storage Spaces Direct which is part of the new Azure Stack HCI program. Azure Stack HCI enables building highly available storage systems […]
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