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a storage abstraction layer for Direct Attached Storage in Microsoft Windows. provides features and performance comparable to a traditional SAN.

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Mixing disks of different sizes in a Storage Spaces pool

I have a Storage Spaces pool containing 2x 3TB disks. A single mirrored volume is created from this pool with a fixed size (not thin provisioned) and is set to use all space in the pool at the time of creation. Now, I want to add 2x 4TB disks to…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Deduped 356GB to 1.32GB

I'm experimenting with deduplication on a Server 2012 R2 storage space. I let it run the first dedupe optimisation last night, and I was pleased to see that it claimed a 340GB reduction. However, I knew that this was too good to be true. On that…
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Storage Spaces Direct guidelines

I have recently deployed WS2016 DC on 4x DL380 G7s for PoC purposes. Each server has 4x 300GB 10K SAS drives, also, I have a couple of Intel SSDs that I can temporary borrow from my company. My main goal is to test different Storage Replica "modes"…
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Can storage-spaces drives be moved to a replacement server when there is a failure

I have tried to search here and Google, but cannot find a case explaining this. Storage spaces is similar to software raid. If the server fails due to motherboard or some other issue, can the drives that comprise that storage spaces config be…
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Windows Storage Spaces - a useful replacement for RAID6?

// short update at the bottom // another update is near the bottom to reply to a suggested edit So, at first I had this idea: Find a virtual driver to set up and use software raid on windows. Result: Failed even with support from developer. The next…
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Do we need SCVMM in order to test Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016?

I've installed in our lab three Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition. Each server has five SAS drives and we'll purchase a few SSDs for the servers. Right now we are testing our infrastructure and we are looking at Storage Spaces in Windows Server…
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Error removing physical disk marked as Retired

I have Server 2012 with one storage pool and one virtual disk. The virtual disk uses layout parity and thin provisioning. It contained 4 physical disks. One of the physical disks failed. It was pulled and larger replacement disk was added. The…
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How to resolve virtual disk degraded in Windows Server 2012

I am using the new Storage Spaces feature in Windows Server 2012. I have the following disks: FriendlyName CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage Size ------------ ------- …
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Is there any way to prevent Storage Spaces Direct from automatically adding disks?

Got a problem here on a 2016 Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) hosting an SQL Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) employing Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). On each server, after successful initial creation, S2D automatically added an otherwise unused…
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Storage Spaces Direct very low available space

I'm testing S2D. I have created cluster from 2 VMs and call PowerShell Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect -SkipEligibilityChecks -Confirm -CacheState Disabled List of storage Type Node Size Used Percent ---- ---- ---- ---- ------- HDD 1 21GB …
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Should we use Storage Spaces or RAID?

Small office here with 5± users. Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. Lenovo TS440 LSI 9240-8i RAID controller. (2) 250 GB SSDs (OS)(RAID 1) (2) 2TB WD Blacks (DATA/CLIENT BACKUPS)(RAID 1) Is Storage Spaces basically like software RAID, but at the OS…
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ReFS on Storage Spaces: Is Storage Tiering working? Windows Server 2019

) I couldn't find any real information on this :-D I have Windows Server 2019 with one Storage Pool consisting of two HDDs and two SSDs with tiering and mirroring. On that there is a volume running ReFS. How can I check if ReFS tiering is working…
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Does a raid controller use cache in JBOD mode?

I'm specifically asking about a P420 in a D380p G8 server. I'm planning on using storage spaces direct requiring a simple HBA. So I've disabled RAID on the P420's. I'm curious if in this JBOD mode the cache on the raid card is even used?
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Scale-Out File Server with Storage Spaces Direct

guys! After a recent upgrade of our infrastructure, I've got a bunch of decommissioned hardware that I would like to use for storage purposes along with trying out some new stuff. So, I have 4 x DELL R630 servers that have 6 x HDD and 2 x SSDs…
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ReFS / storage spaces drive being dropped under heavy load

I have a Windows 10 workstation used within my business for things like image processing (Photoshop) and software development (Eclipse). It's an i7-2600K based computer, Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H B75 motherboard, 16 GB RAM. OS is on Samsung 850 pro SSD,…
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