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Msft_Volume: multiple records for 'D:'

Im getting some strange results for Msft_Volume query Get-WmiObject -Query "SELECT * FROM Msft_Volume" -Namespace Root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage I see 'D' drive six times! I there any explanation and which one is real? AllocationUnitSize :…
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Windows 10 install power loss, SSD now unrecognised

Recently I was doing a Windows 10 upgrade on a machine when a user turned the machine off (at the plug). They were running a Sandisk 500GB SSD and when rebooted the machine said that there was no boot device. I expected that the MBR just hadn't been…
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Roaming hardrives on a HPE Proliant DL380 Gen 9 24FF exact copy?

HPE Proliant DL380 Gen 9 24FF is faulting due to a flashin read light. The ILM files below indicate that the network port is faulty (attached to the system port). The trouble shooting guides recommend switching the system board. If we have a second…
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Trying to identify and expand CentOS root partition

I help out a company halfway across the country with maintaining their website and web server running on CentOS 7. The root partition keeps running out of disk space and crashing the server, so they say that they added another 300GB to it. I am…
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From SuperUser: Volume on spare drive marked as system partition

I asked this question on SuperUser a few days ago but haven't gotten any responses yet. I figured I would try my luck here since a) there isn't much of a difference between disk manager in Vista and Server 08 and b) it's backup related and I…
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Failed to extend partition

I have a virtualised instance of Windows Server 2012 R2. I changed the size of one of the underlying virtual disks from 800Gb to 2Tb. I scanned the drives in Compmgmt and found that it was correctly seeing the new size. I told disk management to…
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Beeping server and no output from hpacucli commands

I have a beeping supermicro server and my suspicion is that it's a RAID/disk issue. The supermicro storage is a separate unit to the manager (a HP Proliant Gen 9). As a result I've started attempting to discover some info about the RAID array and…
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Server 2008 R2 OMSA Hot Spare

Using the OMSA tool in Windows Server 2008 R2 I have created a new RAID 5 array and virtual disk called Vault. I have created this RAID from 6 x 1TB physical HDDs. This is how it appears in OMSA; As you can see, the total storage capacity is…
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Server 2008 R2 Virtual Disk Unallocated Space

Using the OMSA tool in Windows Server 2008 R2 I have created a new RAID 5 array and virtual disk called Vault. This is how it appears in OMSA; I am using 6 physical disks in the RAID. After creating the virtual disk it appeared in the disk…
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Automatically distribute lvm (stripes) for specific LVM2 VG on Linux

With Linux lvm2 I can create logical volumes inside a VG. When I specify with the lvcreate command striping/stripesize I can manually distribute the logical volumes over all physical volumes (as shown for lvnova below). Is there a way to configure…
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Windows 2003 Dynamic Disks (Raid 1) resynching problem

I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 Ent server running with a C: drive and dynamic disk raid 1 Z: drive. The Z: drive mirrors two identical 1TB drives (same manufacturer, model number, and size - HDS721010KLA330). Amongst other things, the Z: drive…
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Optimal Disk Setup for OLTP SQL Server

We have a high transaction (lots of reads and writes) database server (running SQL 2005) that is currently set up with a RAID 1 OS partition (C:) and a RAID 5 data/log/tempdb partition (D:). The C: has 2 drives and the D: has 4 drives. The server…
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Disk Rename in LVM

I installed ubuntu 14.04 with LVM, the disk name was showing properly as I had specified while installation till I performed apt-get updated && upgrade. Before Upgrade /dev/mapper/UBUNTU--VG01-UBUNTU--ROOT 37G 1.3G 34G 4%…
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Using virtual disks or create RAID volumes to combine multiple disks in Windows

In Windows Server We can use Disk Management and create striped,mirrored or raid5 volume on multiple disks also we could put all the disks in a storage pool and create a virtual disk then create volume on top of it in Server Manger. What would the…
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How to resize LVM in Redhat

I have a VM with Redhat 6.8 that originally started with a 60GB disk 1. In VMware I increased the size to 100GB. I would like to increase the /tmp volume from 2GB to 5GB. I assume I need to resize the sda2 partition first and then increase the LV. I…
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