Hi, Nick i have seen almost every major topic video you created to counter check on our technique and get various thing to keep for us. Thus i found your video very helpful in terms of detail explanation regarding every topic you made for those who are in the filed IT & Acting as Admin somewhere to cope at their end on a quick way. Overall provided info, clear voice and step you created relevant to topic are quite good. Keep providing more tips & tricks. Thanks
It's very important to note, using the normal Storage Spaces RAID where the disks are put together to one drive, does not work like the traditional RAID1. In fact it is more flexible. I had one drive die, that was bigger than the 2nd drive. Microsoft Storage Spaces had advanced enough as it is, moved the data to both drives in the way that the bigger drive that failed, could be replaced and no data was lost. It has a 'prepare failed drive for removal' process. Once that hits 100% completed you can then remove the drive and plug in a new one and 'repair the array'. With traditional RAID1 as you may or may not know, the disks must be exactly the same size. Currently running at 2TB and a 1TB together. I was much more satisfied with Storage Spaces once I experienced a real drive failure than I was in the beginning. It works great. Do keep in mind... if you use more than half the data of the larger drive, you will risk loosing some data, however. This is common sense. Try to use the same capacity size drives if using 2 or more, if possible. I'm a 17 years experienced IT admin
"because using other people's storage solutions can cost you up to ... a lot of money." LOL! Well, I have to say you definitely can't be wrong on that one! I'm totally using this the next time I have to discuss I.T. finances with my boss - just to see the look I get.
Great video and very well explained keep up the great work. 1 question after replacing a drive does it rebalance automaticly or is there a re balance option? and doesn't storage spaces use ssd as cache also for writing speeds? thanks again
Hi and how are you!? Thank you in advance in in sparing me the time of your day to look into mine, so here goes! I am interested in getting Microsoft Essential and I wanna know the down right basics of what to know about it and money wise as I would only wanna use it for home use and access outside of the home. I understand that yes ofc I'll have to buy it hehehe! but are there any fees should I be aware of other than just buying it outright from microsoft? are there yearly fees to be paid and do i have to pay some amount of money depending on how many cores I have? again thank you very much for the time you've put in reading mine, you and your time spent are greatly appreciated
Another great video. I just created a storage pool on my Windows Server 2012 R2. To confirm, if I created a Mirror setup, with 2 virtual disks, and then decided I wanted a Parity setup, I'd have to delete it and start over, no? I tried to simply add to the Physical disk and Virtual disk, but no luck. Thanks
Great video, I just have one question. Is it possible to add an existing disk (with files) without having the disk be reformatted? To add some background, I'm just trying to have my disks accessible over my local network with zero redundancy. Thanks.
what happen if the windows server corrupt c drive. can i use the other disk (hdd) drives that has the files of file server to other computer or it will read from the other computer or not?
Hi Nick, i just want to say thank you for your videos. A quick question, i have vmware 16 pro and i have added 3 additional hard disks size 10GB like you did but I only see 1 Hard disk in my Storage Pools > Physical Disks tab. Any idea why?
i cant understant one thing. normally when we create raid in server, physical hdds are added in that raid group and this is what makes sense. in s2d we first add all physical disks to a pool and then create a virtual disk and then it asks what level of raid do we want. how does this raid work on virtual disk ? i mean we cant loose a virtual disk unless we loose a physical disk and in s2d we are making raid on virtual disk.
Hi Arsalan, this is a good question. I suggest for you to check the following article it could clear some doubts - technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831739(v=ws.11).aspx
I have three 1TB HDD on a Win Server 2016 brand new. I want to configure a C, D, and E drive from the three physical HDDs. C will be for the system and programs, D will be for data, and E will be for manual copying of files to back up. How can this be done?
Thank you for the video I have a question please can I save my OS in raid 5 for example if the one failed can rebuild OS and still running without any problem ?
when i create a virtual drive on IIS to connect to share drive so that my website could download and upload from it. I just keeping getting error that I couldnt upload. and the permission was set to everyone full control. Do you have any idea what am i doing wrong? note that manually i can do anything with the share directory from my second server, but the IIS / website cant save or send the files over.
Hi, great videos. I'm about to start on a new project and that involves migrating from vmware setup to new hyper-v HCI setup, I wish to use S2D in a two-node setup, have just purchased hardware and licensing Windows Server DataCenter 2019, and now looking at ways of configuring it, do you have an email I could ping a couple questions over to you at. Have also subscribed as videos are very informative.
why in the pool it can see up to 2TB (MBR) only. so if i try to use physical 10TB drives.. it only sees 2TB per drive. Does this mean it wouldnt support bigger than 2TB drives?
Hi Bilal, I had to check the video once again to see where the MBR did pop up. This actually is my boot partition and it is with MBR format. The virtual disk is with GPT partitioning right below it.
When I try your steps My 10TB platter drives show up But when I select all 3 in a pool It says the size will be 6TB (remember each drive is 10TB each) then why does it show 6TB total instead of 20TB with parity or 30TB without parity
When trying to create the virtual disk (minute 11:15) I a receive a error message saying that i have not enough reliable resources to do the parity. Therefore i have 3 physical and identical disks with 1TB each.
I am trying to do this in a vmware environment. I've got a VM up and configured for File Server. I've tried several sized disks but at the moment I'm testing 2 500GB disks and trying to set up a storage pool. I've tried several options when assigning the disks to the server ie: thin/thick provision, independent/not independent etc...Tried formatting both standard and dynamic and GPT/MBR. Whatever I do i'm getting the following error during the pool set up: Physical Disks: The drive cannot find the sector requested. It does this for as many disks as I have assigned to the server. The back end storage is a Dell Compellent SCV2000 at the most recent firmware/software versions.
Hi Jeff, interesting scenario you have there. When you attach the disks to the actual server do you format the disks? Did you try to create volumes on them and see if they are accessible? I assume they are LUNs presented from your SAN?
RAID 5 DESTROYS disks. I have lost more data with RAID 5 than with any other RAID type (including no RAID at all). A single disk with no fancy redundancy (in my experience) is far more robust than RAID 5. RAID 1 is fine because it tends not to abuse the physical hardware like RAID 5.
RAID5 is not for protecting your data, you use backup for that. RAID5 protects you against a sudden disk failure. When a disk fails, the first thing you do is to make a fresh backup, then you can start to rebuild your storage. No users has lost their data :-)
But when rebuilding the array after you replace one failed disk causes multiple simultaneous disk failures, you lose the entire array. There are articles about this phenomenon on the internet so I don't need to go into detail. Suffice it to say that the higher the single disk capacity of the array, the MORE likely you will experience a failure. In other words four 500GB disks are less likely to fail than four 2TB disks in a four disk RAID 5 config. I've experienced catastrophic failure of RAID 5 arrays using Adaptec, LSI, and other RAID controller manufacturers. RAID 5 is a big disappointment.
+@@GizmoFromPizmo - You know, if I had read your comment just one year ago, I wouldn't have believed you. But, I actually had a server that the RAID card in it failed. I was able to pull everything off it before it actually failed completely ... but when I resurrected it a year later to repurpose it for a different service, I encountered a phenomenon I haven't seen before. First I replaced the failed RAID card. After that, when I booted it the server up I noticed that I not only had ONE failed hard disk, but TWO. In any event, I replaced the two bad disks and it's been fine ever since ... but what are the odds that TWO disks would fail at the same time?! It actually makes me wonder if the old card took those drives out with it ... or maybe both drives failing took out the RAID card. I'll probably never know. Ya, it's no longer using RAID5. I'm using RAID 1+0 on it now. Horrendous loss of disk space ... but at least I still get the speed of RAID5 but with the ability to lose 2 disks without losing data.
This video does not explain how to create a Pool on one machine and import the Virtual disk onto another machine. That's what its used for and you completely missed the point. You just created a pool, create a disk on the same machine which is useless.
Hi Datalore74, I respect your opinion. In most cases I just show the functionality and basics of the product. In the future I will try to create more deep dive content.
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I love the "Up to, a lot of money", you ain't wrong about that
Thank you, Alasdair! Yep, a lot of cash !
Made me giggle too xD
It was pleasure to watch the video and learn some interesting stuff from Server 2016 :)
Thanks Tsetso! Much appreciated !
We have a NIMBLE CS-1000 at work cost AUD78,000. Yep cant afford that for home so I love this vid. Keep up the good work.
Hi, Nick i have seen almost every major topic video you created to counter check on our technique and get various thing to keep for us. Thus i found your video very helpful in terms of detail explanation regarding every topic you made for those who are in the filed IT & Acting as Admin somewhere to cope at their end on a quick way. Overall provided info, clear voice and step you created relevant to topic are quite good. Keep providing more tips & tricks. Thanks
It's very important to note, using the normal Storage Spaces RAID where the disks are put together to one drive, does not work like the traditional RAID1. In fact it is more flexible. I had one drive die, that was bigger than the 2nd drive. Microsoft Storage Spaces had advanced enough as it is, moved the data to both drives in the way that the bigger drive that failed, could be replaced and no data was lost.
It has a 'prepare failed drive for removal' process. Once that hits 100% completed you can then remove the drive and plug in a new one and 'repair the array'. With traditional RAID1 as you may or may not know, the disks must be exactly the same size.
Currently running at 2TB and a 1TB together.
I was much more satisfied with Storage Spaces once I experienced a real drive failure than I was in the beginning. It works great. Do keep in mind... if you use more than half the data of the larger drive, you will risk loosing some data, however. This is common sense. Try to use the same capacity size drives if using 2 or more, if possible.
I'm a 17 years experienced IT admin
Thank you man for such a easy explanation, You are doing a perfect job
Thank u so much. What a complete information. So hard to find it.
Great videos and explanations. I am working toward my 70-740.741.742 Thanks for the videos
Excellent explanation, great for achieve sys admin goals. Thank you Nick
I would like to say, that your explaination is so helpful and clear, appreciate that a lot, keep it up.
Vilen Dank für Ihre Mühe.
Thank you, Firass. Much appreciated.
Bitte schön.
Thank you very much it's really helpful with lots of information and explanation thanks once again. Looking forward to see ur new videos
Your tutorials are simple to follow, and achieve everything I need to do. Thanks!
Thank you for the support Mcai8rw2!
how did you jump from having just a DC to 1 DC and a file server now?
Great Video, Really enjoying this series I'm using it to train myself for my new job that I start soon! :) Thank you for the service
Thank you, Roy. I am happy my videos can help you in your endeavours.
Thanks dude, the video is informative and the last 5 mins are cooool
Thank you,
You solved my problem...
Thank You...
That's just what I needed! Thanks, Nick!
No problem, Steve! You are most welcome.
Thank you brother, the videos are amazing!
Superb explanation.
"because using other people's storage solutions can cost you up to ... a lot of money."
LOL! Well, I have to say you definitely can't be wrong on that one! I'm totally using this the next time I have to discuss I.T. finances with my boss - just to see the look I get.
thank you for your great explaining
Great job u done and thank you
Great work , helping a lot.
Thank you, Pharadi!
Excellent...
Great Job
Deserve Like and Share
Thank you, Sameeh!
Hi this was a really excellent video thanks
Great Explanation !!!
Great video and very well explained keep up the great work. 1 question after replacing a drive does it rebalance automaticly or is there a re balance option? and doesn't storage spaces use ssd as cache also for writing speeds? thanks again
Hi Chris, after replacing the disk or if you have a spare disk it will re-balance by itself.
Hi and how are you!? Thank you in advance in in sparing me the time of your day to look into mine, so here goes! I am interested in getting Microsoft Essential and I wanna know the down right basics of what to know about it and money wise as I would only wanna use it for home use and access outside of the home. I understand that yes ofc I'll have to buy it hehehe! but are there any fees should I be aware of other than just buying it outright from microsoft? are there yearly fees to be paid and do i have to pay some amount of money depending on how many cores I have? again thank you very much for the time you've put in reading mine, you and your time spent are greatly appreciated
thank you NIC ,where are you i miss your videos and your explanation and your voice :),please make us another videos
And that you call a true fan! Thank you sbaita!
Another great video. I just created a storage pool on my Windows Server 2012 R2.
To confirm, if I created a Mirror setup, with 2 virtual disks, and then decided I wanted a Parity setup, I'd have to delete it and start over, no?
I tried to simply add to the Physical disk and Virtual disk, but no luck. Thanks
nice video!
Great video, I just have one question. Is it possible to add an existing disk (with files) without having the disk be reformatted? To add some background, I'm just trying to have my disks accessible over my local network with zero redundancy. Thanks.
what happen if the windows server corrupt c drive. can i use the other disk (hdd) drives that has the files of file server to other computer or it will read from the other computer or not?
Hi Nick, i just want to say thank you for your videos. A quick question, i have vmware 16 pro and i have added 3 additional hard disks size 10GB like you did but I only see 1 Hard disk in my Storage Pools > Physical Disks tab. Any idea why?
Thanks, what happened to the CompTIA A+ videos you
previously posted on your page.
i cant understant one thing. normally when we create raid in server, physical hdds are added in that raid group and this is what makes sense. in s2d we first add all physical disks to a pool and then create a virtual disk and then it asks what level of raid do we want. how does this raid work on virtual disk ? i mean we cant loose a virtual disk unless we loose a physical disk and in s2d we are making raid on virtual disk.
Hi Arsalan, this is a good question. I suggest for you to check the following article it could clear some doubts - technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831739(v=ws.11).aspx
I already created the drives at hardware level (Raid 6); does this mimic this software driven storage pool?
I have three 1TB HDD on a Win Server 2016 brand new. I want to configure a C, D, and E drive from the three physical HDDs. C will be for the system and programs, D will be for data, and E will be for manual copying of files to back up. How can this be done?
Thank you for the video
I have a question please can I save my OS in raid 5 for example if the one failed can rebuild OS and still running without any problem ?
I am trying to find out what Storage Spaces in Server 2016 Standard offers. There is plenty for Storage Spaces direct
I wish to know if the free version of hyper-v server supports storage spaces.
What's a good place for free practice exams?
How do you do storage pools with multiple servers?
when i create a virtual drive on IIS to connect to share drive so that my website could download and upload from it. I just keeping getting error that I couldnt upload. and the permission was set to everyone full control. Do you have any idea what am i doing wrong? note that manually i can do anything with the share directory from my second server, but the IIS / website cant save or send the files over.
Thank you very much
Thank you, Tharaka!
hi i need some help i cant see my servers in storage pool in the poton all is off te me how can i do it thnx
Is it possible to add local hard disks to a cluster across multiple servers?
This would be very interesting for a file server with two nodes.
Hi Christoph, hyper-converged solution with Storage Spaces Direct.
Thanks
excellent - could have been short video
Windows Storage Spaces...the quickest, way to slow software raid with high risk of all data loss! :)
Hi, great videos. I'm about to start on a new project and that involves migrating from vmware setup to new hyper-v HCI setup, I wish to use S2D in a two-node setup, have just purchased hardware and licensing Windows Server DataCenter 2019, and now looking at ways of configuring it, do you have an email I could ping a couple questions over to you at. Have also subscribed as videos are very informative.
why in the pool it can see up to 2TB (MBR) only. so if i try to use physical 10TB drives.. it only sees 2TB per drive. Does this mean it wouldnt support bigger than 2TB drives?
Hi Bilal, I had to check the video once again to see where the MBR did pop up. This actually is my boot partition and it is with MBR format. The virtual disk is with GPT partitioning right below it.
When I try your steps
My 10TB platter drives show up
But when I select all 3 in a pool
It says the size will be 6TB (remember each drive is 10TB each) then why does it show 6TB total instead of 20TB with parity or 30TB without parity
MBR can support only 2 TB drives , you need to chose GPT that will support more then 2 TB drives
Did you just really share a drive by opening Properties and selecting Share...
(at 4:15)
Tree disks. What's that?
When trying to create the virtual disk (minute 11:15) I a receive a error message saying that i have not enough reliable resources to do the parity. Therefore i have 3 physical and identical disks with 1TB each.
How can I fix the problem? In the Disk Management i can do the raid 5 whit no problems, why i cannot in the storage spaces?
Tive esse mesmo erro... tenho 8 discos iguais
Conseguiu resolver?
I am trying to do this in a vmware environment. I've got a VM up and configured for File Server. I've tried several sized disks but at the moment I'm testing 2 500GB disks and trying to set up a storage pool. I've tried several options when assigning the disks to the server ie: thin/thick provision, independent/not independent etc...Tried formatting both standard and dynamic and GPT/MBR. Whatever I do i'm getting the following error during the pool set up:
Physical Disks:
The drive cannot find the sector requested.
It does this for as many disks as I have assigned to the server. The back end storage is a Dell Compellent SCV2000 at the most recent firmware/software versions.
Hi Jeff, interesting scenario you have there. When you attach the disks to the actual server do you format the disks? Did you try to create volumes on them and see if they are accessible? I assume they are LUNs presented from your SAN?
Jeff, one more thing if you managed to solve it share your experience. Thank you in advance.
I am running this lab in Virtual box. When i go for storage pool. There is no disk available.
I have the same problem. Did you fix that?
Hey,
does this require a minimum of HDDs?
yes i would say atleast 2 from what i could make up
i am trying to add a physical disk and the option is grayed out. help me on that one
I have the same problem. Did you fix that?
Why it said no storage pool exist?
Hi Gorson, could you please link where you saw this error message?
Bravo
Thank you Nestor.
if fail operation system disk
Thank youu
Thank you for the support!
RAID 5 DESTROYS disks. I have lost more data with RAID 5 than with any other RAID type (including no RAID at all). A single disk with no fancy redundancy (in my experience) is far more robust than RAID 5. RAID 1 is fine because it tends not to abuse the physical hardware like RAID 5.
Thank you for sharing your experience, Gizmo.
RAID5 is not for protecting your data, you use backup for that. RAID5 protects you against a sudden disk failure. When a disk fails, the first thing you do is to make a fresh backup, then you can start to rebuild your storage.
No users has lost their data :-)
But when rebuilding the array after you replace one failed disk causes multiple simultaneous disk failures, you lose the entire array. There are articles about this phenomenon on the internet so I don't need to go into detail. Suffice it to say that the higher the single disk capacity of the array, the MORE likely you will experience a failure. In other words four 500GB disks are less likely to fail than four 2TB disks in a four disk RAID 5 config. I've experienced catastrophic failure of RAID 5 arrays using Adaptec, LSI, and other RAID controller manufacturers. RAID 5 is a big disappointment.
+@@GizmoFromPizmo - You know, if I had read your comment just one year ago, I wouldn't have believed you. But, I actually had a server that the RAID card in it failed. I was able to pull everything off it before it actually failed completely ... but when I resurrected it a year later to repurpose it for a different service, I encountered a phenomenon I haven't seen before. First I replaced the failed RAID card. After that, when I booted it the server up I noticed that I not only had ONE failed hard disk, but TWO.
In any event, I replaced the two bad disks and it's been fine ever since ... but what are the odds that TWO disks would fail at the same time?! It actually makes me wonder if the old card took those drives out with it ... or maybe both drives failing took out the RAID card. I'll probably never know.
Ya, it's no longer using RAID5. I'm using RAID 1+0 on it now. Horrendous loss of disk space ... but at least I still get the speed of RAID5 but with the ability to lose 2 disks without losing data.
Need to zoom in more.
Thank you for the advise Jaya, unfortunately I do not have any zoom-in software I can use. I will see what I can do.
*singing* Let’s get physical......
....disk
Up to.... a lot of money! haha
It is actually true...millions of dollars. :)
cost up to a lot of money GAGAGAGAGa
Too slow.
This video does not explain how to create a Pool on one machine and import the Virtual disk onto another machine. That's what its used for and you completely missed the point. You just created a pool, create a disk on the same machine which is useless.
Hi Datalore74, I respect your opinion. In most cases I just show the functionality and basics of the product. In the future I will try to create more deep dive content.