Questions tagged [storage-spaces]
a storage abstraction layer for Direct Attached Storage in Microsoft Windows. provides features and performance comparable to a traditional SAN.
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Need to modify RAID storage
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I have a live server with Server 2016 Standard. The C: drive keeps filling up and causing issues. I have a Backplane with 7 drives, and we are using MegaRAID Storage ...
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Unable to create a Storage Pool in Windows 2022 using disks in DAS enclosure connected via USB
I'm trying to build out some RAID arrays on a Windows 2022 server using Storage Spaces. I have 6 HDDs in a DAS enclosure connected to the computer via USB. Per the Get-PhysicalDisk utility, 4 of them ...
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Issues Enabling Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) with RAID SSDs on Windows Server
I am facing issues while enabling Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) on my Windows Server setup. Here are the details of my setup and the problem encountered:
Server Setup:
Server 1:
Domain Controller ...
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How to set up a storage space all flash tiering in powershell?
I have two very fast, write intensive NVMe SSDs, and many slower SATA SSDs. Using Windows Server 2019 (but happy to upgrade to 2022 if it helps).
What I want to do is to build a virtual disk with two ...
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Windows Tiered Storage Space can't analyse or optimise
My PC has a Tiered Windows Storage setup that can't tier-optimise any more.
Tier optimisation has worked fine for many years but has recently started failing, with errors reported by both defrag and ...
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How to clear a warning on a Windows Storage Space Pool
For some reason I have a Windows Storage Space storage pool on Windows Server 2019 showing as warning / degraded, even though all the disks, virtual disks and volumes are fine and showing no warning. ...
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Storage spaces operational status "IOError, OK"
I have a Storage Pool of four NVMe drives. One of them shows strange status:
Get-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName "ADATA*"
Number FriendlyName SerialNumber ...
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Is it possible to remove a physical disk from a storage pool on Windows 11?
I have a storage pool on my Windows 11 system that is configured like this.
I want to remove one of the physical disks from this pool.
From the UI, it seems I can only Extend the pool size.
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Does this particular NVMe disk work in Storage Spaces on Windows Server 2019?
HPE Proliant DL380 Gen10 with Windows Server 2019 Standard.
I want to use NVMe disks with Storage Spaces (not Direct aka S2D).
The disk is HPE P50228-B21 3.2TB NVMe Gen4 High Performance Mixed Use SFF ...
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Server 2019 Storage Pool (3 columns, 2 copies) - Unexplainable Behaviour
i've been using storing spaces since many many years now and thought I understood how it works. Recently, i got hands on a decomissioned 24-bay SAN and decided to modify it a bit to be used with my (...
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Can't add physical disk to existing storage pool in S2D
Get-StoragePool -IsPrimordial $False | Add-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $True)
Failure Image
Available Disk CanPool is True
Can help me please
Show physical disk image
disk ...
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Is there a way to manually replace one disk in Microsoft Storage Spaces?
I got a microsoft storage spaces which using 4 disks and acting as RAID0, recently I found one of them failed.
I knew I should add a new disk into this space and kick the failed one out, but instead, ...
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Repair-VirtualDisk remains in suspended
We erroneously added a P40 disk to our (marketplace) Azure Sql server / virtual machine.
We tried removing it following the process described in following articales
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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Windows Server: not enough space on disk (yet still plenty of free space even in the error message itself)
I've got a fileserver running Windows Server and I'm using the storage pool technology to create volumes where I store the files.
I tried to move some files from one of the volumes to another but I ...
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CentOS - lsblk showing added new space for mpath, but pvdisplay is showing previous space
Team,
I am working in a production environment and stumbled into a case where, a 3TB space from Storage has already been mounted and used for particular volume group called "ipdata_vg". Now ...
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