De-Duplication on 3TB of data behaving weird
Hi All,So have been playing with the lovely new Storage Spaces and De-duplication features in Server 2012 and have come across some strange behaviour. The test volume in question contains just over...
View ArticleWindows Storage Server Disk Management
We use a Dell NX3000 series NAS for corporate file sharing. It contains two boot drives in a RAID 10 config (160 GB each) and four 1 TB drives in a RAID 5 config. The available space for file sharing...
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Can anyone help me?Creating the shadow copies in the file server cluster...
I construct a failover cluster(file server,AP module) for sharing files by WSS 2012,and I want to use the shadow copies to backup my data,but when making a shadow copies on the volume which is added...
View ArticleStorage Space Thin provisioning & De-Duplication Results in Useless Trim and...
Hi all,So I've been playing around with the new storage spaces, de-duplication & thin provisioning features in Server 2012. So far I have to say the results have been confusing, frustrating and...
View ArticleStorage Spaces: The configuration of the pack is offline
I'm running Server 2012 Essentials, and have a storage pool with 4 2TB drives. Unfortunately, I had two of the drives fail on me at the same time. If I run Get-PhysicalDisk in Powershell, I get...
View ArticleExhausting change notification handles (SMB requests on winxp)
I run an app, Matlab, on winxp 32 sp3, that internally uses change notification requests on a fair amount of directories and a good amount of those directories are remote (lan) on a win7 64 bit...
View ArticleDFS replication role and AD replication
If I first setup the domain with domain functional level 2008 or higher, the default AD replication will be DFSR.The DFS replication role is irrelevant here (only apply to file server replication using...
View Articlenetwork issue while copying
Hi, i am dealing with a network problem where if i start copying a large file from a server to other 2 servers, the network bandwidth is all taken by one of them, when i pause the copy then the speed...
View ArticleCan't edit office files on share folder
I am using Windows Server 2008 R2. I shared a network Drive with the following permissionShare permission : Authenticated users Read only NTFS permission : Authenticated users...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 Folder Permission
Hi ok this is my issue. I have Folder called Files in Share folder which has 10 Folders. These is a new user I only need to give Read/Write Permission to only 1 folder out of the 10 in the Shared...
View ArticleParts of network file share (Windows Server 2008) reverted to older state
A little about my environment:I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine hosted on ESX 4.0 that is utilized as a File Server. On this server, we use DFS to replicate a copy of our network file...
View ArticleHelp with iCACLS syntax please!
Hello,I'm trying to make a couple of changes on a folder in Windows 7. C:\Users\Person1. I want to change FULL CONTROL rights to "subfolders and files only" for the user named Person.For this I tried...
View ArticleDFS Replication problems - Windows Server 2008 R2
Hello, we have multiple DFS Namespaces and in each case, 2 servers that host the content.Recently on one of the servers, the drive ran out of disk space and appears to have created some problems with...
View ArticleUser with correct permissions cannot access shared drive
User has permission to access a shared drive, can see it but is unable to access it. If he logs onto a different PC he has the access he is supposed to have. when checking the effective permissions for...
View ArticleServer 2012 - File Server Failover cluster - VSS
Hi,We are in the process of setting up a new fail over cluster file server running on Server 2012. The cluster is setup and the storage added.We are trying to enable shadow copies on the volumes. We've...
View ArticleHow will migrating disk array to new server in new domain effect DFS
HiAs part of an internal restructure we have introduced a new W2k8 domain. We have already migrated users across using Quest and we want to move servers across now. The old domain is W2K3 R2 based and...
View ArticleDFS after server failure
We had setup DFS between a Server 2003 and Serve 2012 server. The server 2012 was offline was it was moved to a new location. The server 2003 had an array failure and we did a restore. Our fiber is...
View ArticleScale Out File Server & Networking
HiI am in the process of creating a SOFS and all is going swimmingly but am getting confused on the networking side of things.I have my CSVs & SMB Cluster running fine on two servers and have...
View ArticleDFS replication role and AD replication
If I first setup the domain with domain functional level 2008 or higher, the default AD replication will be DFSR.The DFS replication role is irrelevant here (only apply to file server replication using...
View Article[2008R2sp1] Slow performance on Failover Cluster fileshare
We have several HP DL360G6 machines of which some are management servers, some are Hyper-V 2012 cluster, and some are Exchange / File / SQL cluster. The File cluster role is normally running on one...
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