Great video, Eli. You are so good at conducting these tutorials and explaining the more complicated stuff we 'newbies' aren't familiar with. Funnily enough you seem to be the only one I can find who has made a video on how to add extra drives and creating volumes in Windows Server 2012, in spite of the fact you did the video back in 2013! Thank for the time you spent to share the knowledge
Thanks Eli. I’m in a junior sysadmin role, and though this video is very dated it is still very relevant. I had to deal with a storage appliance hitting the fan at a site, it made me realize I have much to learn about storage.
I had to make decisions like this in the real world, and after watching this video, I realized that I have been doing things incorrectly for my environment. awesome video.
Thankyou Eli soo much for the tutorials that you have done. In tha last 2 weeks i have watched all of them to help me for when i start my job at a school as a IT Technician. These have helped me out soo much to learn the basics of the network so i can move on to advance stuff at work. I will keep in cotact with you and keep you updated on how it's going.
Hi! I really appreciate your tutorials. It helped me a lot. I hope you could also do a tutorial on migrating windows server 2012 to another machine where all the users, rights, passwords, permissions and other pertinent data or info are migrated to the new machine.
You can shrink volumes on basic disks and I definitely don't agree at all with using disk spanning on any server let alone a file server. RAID1 for system and at the least RAID5 with an active spare on a file server else you're asking for downtime. Hope to see a vid on REFS and virtual disks and arrays soon, the new WS2012 stuff. Wonder if that's all done by software or takes advantage of RAID controllers for perf.
Hi Eli, great to see your adapting to the RT tech that's out there! Your like me first you dis;like thesys and then you go ahead and just use it, you should it's here to stay. I hated Win RT and now I'm starting tom like it actually. Running Win 8 since day 2 the US previeuw was available, lol.
Hi Eli, i watched the entire series of Windows 2013 server and i learned a lot of things. Can you tell us something about licensing? For example: what license i have to buy in order to have a fileserver or a Exchange server, SQL, and so on. Something about CALs, TSCALs. You know, things like that. If I ask at MS, they tell me to buy all their servers. I think the licensing process at MS is harder to undesterstand then seting up domain controller
Great Video! I have one of these servers, and I do some things, however, adding space to this server sounds like it's just easy enough for me to mess up. I have contacted a couple of local computer/server people who either state up front that they're not quite sure how to do it, or that they are going to have to look up how to do everything. Do you know, or can you recommend, someone that could do this for me remotely? I have Hamachi, and would be perfectly comfortable putting in new HDs with the server powered down, but I want someone that knows, to configure everything for me up to power down and then after power-up. I already had one tech guy mess up my Server Manager as well. Any recommendations on who to use? If you think I need someone locally, I'm in Little Elm, a northwestern suburb of Dallas, TX.
Eli, your videos are superb, well presented, I have learnt a lot. I am trying to set up Windows Server 2012 Essentials, It wont support Dynamic Disks, It won't recognize them. As the Data I need to back up is 3T, I need a larger space, The Server won't Recognize 3T drives, So added x2 2T. Added them in the backup, only writes to one drive 2T so fails as its not big enough, any ideas ? Thanks
Hi Eli You rock! This is an excellent tutorial on adding hard drives on a Windows Server 2012 environment . Question. In a setup where I have a adaptec raid controller can I set up the hard drives as spanned volumes or must I use a simple volume?
Nope, logical volumes live inside extended partitions. If hyper V is not capable of shrinking nor expanding virtual disks and there associated partition/volume, whilst even the OS is running, then it is a very poor hypervisor. Which it is not. Using disk spanning on any server is asking for trouble,same goes for software raid.
Hello Dear , Thank you for your amazing videos , I learned a lot from you . I have a question in regards to my Windows server 2012 r2 which is running in a physical machine and I want to clone the sata hard drive to SSD to make it run faster . please help me how . Thank you Eli Sam
You have several options look for snapshots, before you expoand ot schrink a V-disk make sure all your snapshots are deleted and you have a full backup. Backup utils are all over the place in 2012!!!
Thanks for the info may i ask say i already have a 3TB spanned hard drive and it gets nearly full. After installing another 3 TB do i just click extend volume. only reason i ask is i dont want to click extend volume and i lose everything on my exsiting harddrive. Many Thanks
Great video. I'm still struggling to reduce my volume size in Server 2016. I've disabled Hibernation and the Paging file and defragged, but it's still not letting me shrink the volume to less than 2.5Tb. Please help
Eli, why does my computer randomly shut down like after I turn on the computer once? I don't know if it is a virus or not lol. There is no specific time when my computer shuts down. It just randomly does when I first turn on my computer. However if I turn it on again it seems fine for the rest of the day. It is so random. My computer isn't over heating or anything because I literally just turned it on. It'll be like I am randomly typing say for example, this comment, and it would shut down
If you ever want to or have Mac computers that connect to the network then you'd probably want to format the drives in exFat. Both windows and macos can read and write to exFat.
first of all gotta say loved this video i discovered finally what spanned volume does i am also not a fan of RAID and i currently run my drives as JBOD and have offline backups i put into a dock each week and run a mirror backup i am interested in trying spanned volume however how would you perform a backup of these drives if they are shown as one single drive my setup is i have 7 hard drives and i load each one into the HDD dock and perform the incremental mirror backup but if detected as one drive how do you or the software know what is supposed to be on each of those disks in the spanned volume
After adding the "New Volume" is there a way to extend the new allocated hard drive space so that K: drive volume space is added to the operating systems C: drive space? I would like to expand my current file system from a 7GB solid state drive using a 450GB external drive.
What happens if one of the 4 spanned HD fails? All data is lost? If this is the case you have 4x risk to loose all data, and this worsen with more disks.
From serverfault.com/questions/565209/windows-spanned-volume-data-recovery-possible-technical-advice-only-please Spanned volumes, unlike striped volumes, do not stripe data across all disks. This means that all data is written to the first logical disk in the span until it is filled, then additional data is written to the next logical disk, and so on. This means that if a disk in a span fails, only the data that was written to that failed disk is gone. If you lost the first disk in a two-disk span, you'll lose the most data. If you lose the last disk in a span, you'll lose the least amount of data. Any software capable of reading dynamics disks can get at data on remaining disks in a span, since whole files are stored on it - again, they are not striped across multiple disks. If this were a striped volume, this would not be the case. So, recovery of remaining files is very simple. Recovery of files that were on the failed disk is a different story and would be the same as recovering data from a failed standalone disk. It depends on the what caused the failure.
nope, i've increased the size of vdisks and then expanded the size of the volume/partition without any issue whilst the OS was running on a live production server, no reboot required. Best practices is NOT to use disk spanning.
A basic disk using the GPT partition style can have up to 128 primary partitions: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363785%28v=vs.85%29.aspx You can indeed use a RAID (1, mirrored) to boot from: download.microsoft.com/download/6/E/E/6EE26977-FAA0-41CC-8BDA-7A0C5E6EB9CC/Configuring%20Disk%20Mirroring%20for%20Windows%20Server%202012.docx
Question: I am running out of space on my servers C:drive which was only 200+ GB. I bought a new drive that is 1 TB. The server is 2012 and the programs I am running recommends 2016 or higher. It will be some time until I can get an entire new server but in the meantime, should I migrate the data over to the new 1tb drive or can I just add the drive in and span the volume??
Eli, Thank you for your great lessons! I have a problem with this class; In Computermanagement, Storage, Disk Management i can't see my new just installed WD 6TB Green drives. They are just not there. I als do not get a initialize Disk window In the server Manager under Storage Pools, Storage Spaces, in the right bottom window Physical Disks i can cleareley see my 3 beautifull and expensive drives :-) What am i overlooking? Veryy confusing thes Windows 2012 Server! :-) I think i solved the problem! Removed "somthing" hahaha and tada! Now it is stuck in formatting/Resynching... i gues it takes a while..... I gues that is going to take a looooooong while. At 3% after two hours....
Most versions of windows that are 64x including XP support GPT. To boot normally requires 2003+ x64 with UEFI based BIOS. Also MBR will support up to 4TB drives . technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn336946.aspx For home labs with Virtual machines yes RAID isnt worth it on the VM. Esp. Software based raid devices. However I cant imagine any SMB or Enterprise not running atleast a hardware mirror raid on every server. A backup is needed but why have a server offline when a simple mirror raid will keep you online while you replace the failed hard drive.
He'se talking about logical volumes on a win 2012 server and I recall a job I had not long ago and some dude with an administrative job decided on a bigger HD andf just made a existing disk bigger. In hyper V you should NOT do THIS. There are some 3rd party utils that can do the job. But from Hyper-V management it's not done and is going to fuck up your virtual!!!
thanks eli it's an honor to me that people like you exists to help the others, god protect you
The caveat and explanation around 4:30 is awesome. This is now a required video for any IT peer mentors that volunteer here.
Great video, Eli. You are so good at conducting these tutorials and explaining the more complicated stuff we 'newbies' aren't familiar with. Funnily enough you seem to be the only one I can find who has made a video on how to add extra drives and creating volumes in Windows Server 2012, in spite of the fact you did the video back in 2013!
Thank for the time you spent to share the knowledge
Thanks Eli. I’m in a junior sysadmin role, and though this video is very dated it is still very relevant. I had to deal with a storage appliance hitting the fan at a site, it made me realize I have much to learn about storage.
Awesome. After 100's of search only this video clearly show's how to create Disks for Storage. Thank you so much.
Thanks eli, Its an honour to me that people like you exists to help. luv the background effect :)
Thanx to you Eli the Computer Guy, I was able to add a Hard Drive and create Volumes to my Windows Server 2016
You have no idea how much this tutorial has helped me!!! I appreciate the time you took to explain every single thing. You are an amazing teacher.
I had to make decisions like this in the real world, and after watching this video, I realized that I have been doing things incorrectly for my environment. awesome video.
I am glad that are guys like you outhere Eli....keep up the good work:)
I knew this material, but watched for the fun of it. You did a great job covering this. I'll use it when teaching others. Well done Eli!
Thankyou Eli soo much for the tutorials that you have done. In tha last 2 weeks i have watched all of them to help me for when i start my job at a school as a IT Technician. These have helped me out soo much to learn the basics of the network so i can move on to advance stuff at work. I will keep in cotact with you and keep you updated on how it's going.
Hi! I really appreciate your tutorials. It helped me a lot. I hope you could also do a tutorial on migrating windows server 2012 to another machine where all the users, rights, passwords, permissions and other pertinent data or info are migrated to the new machine.
Can't wait for the next video... The BEST teacher :)
Hey guy you just solved my problem through your video. A humble salute to you. Carry on pal
Wow Eli, I really learned allot today !. God bless you ...
Great tutorial! I am working on my server and this was very helpful to understand how I can setup Raids and create a new spanned volume. Thank you,
This video was really awesome and informative! Thanks Eli
eli you're the best man ! i've learned a looot from you. please keep the good work :))
You are a great Teacher... thanks Master.. 🤗
You can shrink volumes on basic disks and I definitely don't agree at all with using disk spanning on any server let alone a file server. RAID1 for system and at the least RAID5 with an active spare on a file server else you're asking for downtime.
Hope to see a vid on REFS and virtual disks and arrays soon, the new WS2012 stuff. Wonder if that's all done by software or takes advantage of RAID controllers for perf.
Hi Eli, great to see your adapting to the RT tech that's out there! Your like me first you dis;like thesys and then you go ahead and just use it, you should it's here to stay. I hated Win RT and now I'm starting tom like it actually. Running Win 8 since day 2 the US previeuw was available, lol.
Dude you are amazing.
Wish you did one drive with Powershell, not the most efficient way to add them, but a useful tip to know though!
Thank you very much for making this video. It really did it for me.
learned alot today! hats off!
Hi Eli, i watched the entire series of Windows 2013 server and i learned a lot of things. Can you tell us something about licensing? For example: what license i have to buy in order to have a fileserver or a Exchange server, SQL, and so on. Something about CALs, TSCALs. You know, things like that. If I ask at MS, they tell me to buy all their servers. I think the licensing process at MS is harder to undesterstand then seting up domain controller
1 new subscriber! Thanks so much man!
3:39 THE EXPLAINING LIGHT FIST OF DOOM!!!!
Data is lost... always make sure you have a backup...
Thanks a lot SIR...
Very nicely explained...
Really u are a great human being..
Salute to you..
Once again thanks a million..
only guy on youtube making tutorials longer than a full class...
Hi Eli, would you make a tutorial about remote acces on windows server 2012?
Hi Eli can you make a video that explains how to make the dns online so ex i can connect to example.com from the browser ?
Thanks Eli! This was helpful.
Great Video! I have one of these servers, and I do some things, however, adding space to this server sounds like it's just easy enough for me to mess up. I have contacted a couple of local computer/server people who either state up front that they're not quite sure how to do it, or that they are going to have to look up how to do everything. Do you know, or can you recommend, someone that could do this for me remotely? I have Hamachi, and would be perfectly comfortable putting in new HDs with the server powered down, but I want someone that knows, to configure everything for me up to power down and then after power-up. I already had one tech guy mess up my Server Manager as well.
Any recommendations on who to use? If you think I need someone locally, I'm in Little Elm, a northwestern suburb of Dallas, TX.
Thanks Eli.
I'm currently trying to figure out how the volumes are assigned... to a different virtual drive or to the same drive as others?.
Eli, your videos are superb, well presented, I have learnt a lot.
I am trying to set up Windows Server 2012 Essentials, It wont support Dynamic Disks, It won't recognize them. As the Data I need to back up is 3T, I need a larger space, The Server won't Recognize 3T drives, So added x2 2T. Added them in the backup, only writes to one drive 2T so fails as its not big enough, any ideas ? Thanks
Hi Eli
You rock! This is an excellent tutorial on adding hard drives on a Windows Server 2012 environment . Question. In a setup where I have a adaptec raid controller can I set up the hard drives as spanned volumes or must I use a simple volume?
Nope, logical volumes live inside extended partitions. If hyper V is not capable of shrinking nor expanding virtual disks and there associated partition/volume, whilst even the OS is running, then it is a very poor hypervisor. Which it is not. Using disk spanning on any server is asking for trouble,same goes for software raid.
Good tut.👍
THANK YOU SO MUCH !!! :D
most of the times there is a few things you can try begin with putting it in a hardisk enclosure and try to recover it from there.
"You can go home and be with your wife or corgis or whatever"... Man this guy can speak. Who says something like that? That is awesome!
Hello Dear ,
Thank you for your amazing videos , I learned a lot from you .
I have a question in regards to my Windows server 2012 r2 which is running in a physical machine and I want to clone the sata hard drive to SSD to make it run faster .
please help me how .
Thank you Eli
Sam
Is that a file level pool? Like flexraid storage pooling?
Whats the difference between spanning and extending?
You have several options look for snapshots, before you expoand ot schrink a V-disk make sure all your snapshots are deleted and you have a full backup. Backup utils are all over the place in 2012!!!
It is possible to extend Disk C with spare hard drives?
Hi, Can all this could be applied to Windows Server 2011 Essentials?
You're the man buddy
do i need to iso of file server to create disk drive currently i am practicing with sever 2109
Thanks for the info may i ask say i already have a 3TB spanned hard drive and it gets nearly full. After installing another 3 TB do i just click extend volume. only reason i ask is i dont want to click extend volume and i lose everything on my exsiting harddrive.
Many Thanks
Please make a video to cluster two servers.
You need more subs.
Great video. I'm still struggling to reduce my volume size in Server
2016. I've disabled Hibernation and the Paging file and defragged, but it's
still not letting me shrink the volume to less than 2.5Tb. Please help
Eli, why does my computer randomly shut down like after I turn on the computer once? I don't know if it is a virus or not lol. There is no specific time when my computer shuts down. It just randomly does when I first turn on my computer. However if I turn it on again it seems fine for the rest of the day. It is so random. My computer isn't over heating or anything because I literally just turned it on. It'll be like I am randomly typing say for example, this comment, and it would shut down
Can you use a computer ssd on the server? Or does it have to be a sas drive?
If you ever want to or have Mac computers that connect to the network then you'd probably want to format the drives in exFat. Both windows and macos can read and write to exFat.
Thank you
how do i create a back up because my laptop has only one hard drive
first of all gotta say loved this video i discovered finally what spanned volume does i am also not a fan of RAID and i currently run my drives as JBOD and have offline backups i put into a dock each week and run a mirror backup i am interested in trying spanned volume however how would you perform a backup of these drives if they are shown as one single drive my setup is i have 7 hard drives and i load each one into the HDD dock and perform the incremental mirror backup but if detected as one drive how do you or the software know what is supposed to be on each of those disks in the spanned volume
After adding the "New Volume" is there a way to extend the new allocated hard drive space so that K: drive volume space is added to the operating systems C: drive space? I would like to expand my current file system from a 7GB solid state drive using a 450GB external drive.
How do you create a 2tb volume on windows server 2012?
What happens if one of the 4 spanned HD fails? All data is lost? If this is the case you have 4x risk to loose all data, and this worsen with more disks.
From serverfault.com/questions/565209/windows-spanned-volume-data-recovery-possible-technical-advice-only-please
Spanned volumes, unlike striped volumes, do not stripe data across all disks. This means that all data is written to the first logical disk in the span until it is filled, then additional data is written to the next logical disk, and so on.
This means that if a disk in a span fails, only the data that was written to that failed disk is gone. If you lost the first disk in a two-disk span, you'll lose the most data. If you lose the last disk in a span, you'll lose the least amount of data.
Any software capable of reading dynamics disks can get at data on remaining disks in a span, since whole files are stored on it - again, they are not striped across multiple disks. If this were a striped volume, this would not be the case. So, recovery of remaining files is very simple.
Recovery of files that were on the failed disk is a different story and would be the same as recovering data from a failed standalone disk. It depends on the what caused the failure.
nope, i've increased the size of vdisks and then expanded the size of the volume/partition without any issue whilst the OS was running on a live production server, no reboot required. Best practices is NOT to use disk spanning.
BIG Thanks
A basic disk using the GPT partition style can have up to 128 primary partitions: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363785%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
You can indeed use a RAID (1, mirrored) to boot from: download.microsoft.com/download/6/E/E/6EE26977-FAA0-41CC-8BDA-7A0C5E6EB9CC/Configuring%20Disk%20Mirroring%20for%20Windows%20Server%202012.docx
Question: I am running out of space on my servers C:drive which was only 200+ GB. I bought a new drive that is 1 TB. The server is 2012 and the programs I am running recommends 2016 or higher. It will be some time until I can get an entire new server but in the meantime, should I migrate the data over to the new 1tb drive or can I just add the drive in and span the volume??
can you do iis windows 2012
how to disable raid in windows server 2012 r2
but mine not moving download dynamic resources
Eli My Computer Guy :)
how to add a another drive for example D:\ drive and attach it file file server
wow, better camera ?
I feel the same way about raid vs spanned
You may want to take a look at some freely available VM backup software - Veeam Backup Free.
so it's best practice to add an other virtual-HD instead of schrinking or expanding them.
Eli, Thank you for your great lessons!
I have a problem with this class;
In Computermanagement, Storage, Disk Management i can't see my new just installed WD 6TB Green drives. They are just not there.
I als do not get a initialize Disk window
In the server Manager under Storage Pools, Storage Spaces, in the right bottom window Physical Disks i can cleareley see my 3 beautifull and expensive drives :-)
What am i overlooking?
Veryy confusing thes Windows 2012 Server! :-)
I think i solved the problem! Removed "somthing" hahaha and tada! Now it is stuck in formatting/Resynching... i gues it takes a while.....
I gues that is going to take a looooooong while. At 3% after two hours....
I was hoping that there was some magic and you were going to show us how to expand the system drive C: in Server 2012
que le trait-Haut te protege,well explained......
can you do more hacking classes i loved those!
Suggested Title change:
VirtualBox - Adding Hard Drives, Creating Volumes In Virtual Server 2012
your right before you go @ it remove all snapshots from the machine the disk is for then it should go a ok.
Most versions of windows that are 64x including XP support GPT. To boot normally requires 2003+ x64 with UEFI based BIOS. Also MBR will support up to 4TB drives .
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn336946.aspx
For home labs with Virtual machines yes RAID isnt worth it on the VM. Esp. Software based raid devices. However I cant imagine any SMB or Enterprise not running atleast a hardware mirror raid on every server. A backup is needed but why have a server offline when a simple mirror raid will keep you online while you replace the failed hard drive.
He'se talking about logical volumes on a win 2012 server and I recall a job I had not long ago and some dude with an administrative job decided on a bigger HD andf just made a existing disk bigger. In hyper V you should NOT do THIS. There are some 3rd party utils that can do the job. But from Hyper-V management it's not done and is going to fuck up your virtual!!!
Like U ! :)
Too long, my friend! Half an hour to add a hard drive?
Sir your room is dusty sir
11 mins of talking.. gosh!!
2nd :(