Running Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct On DELL EMC PowerEdge R740xd Ready Nodes
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, …
How to Replace a Faulty Disk in Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces? #StorageSpaces #WS2016 #HyperV
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 …
Monitor Storage Spaces Direct Health with PowerShell #S2D #WS2016 #PowerShell
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 …
Running Storage Spaces Direct on HPE ProLiant MicroServers #S2D #HyperV #WS2016
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 …
How to Create a Multi-Resilient Volume with ReFS on Standalone Server in Windows Server 2016? #WS2016 #HyperV #StorageSpaces
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 …
Adding Virtual Network Adapter to Storage Spaces Direct #S2D Cluster #StorageSpacesDirect #WS2016 #HyperV
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 …
Running Storage Spaces Direct on 2 Nodes HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 #S2D #HPE #WS2016 #HyperV
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 …
How To Update Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces to Windows Server 2016? #WS2016 #StorageSpaces #HyperV
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 …
Real World Experience With Storage Spaces Direct – Unexpected Outage #S2D #WS2016 #HyperV #StorageSpacesDirect
In this article, I will share with you my real world outage experience with Storage Spaces Direct. Introduction If you have been in IT for …
How to Expand and Resize Storage Spaces Direct CSV Volume? #WS2016 #HyperV #S2D
In this article post, I will walk you through how to expand and resize an existing Storage Spaces Direct Clustered Shared Volume(s). Introduction In Windows …
