Hi all,

I want to create a file cluster for my RDS 2012 R2 test enivorement. First i want to create a file cluster, but i run into some problems. This is my network configuration:

192.168.18.2: DC / RDS Gateway / RDS Broker

192.168.18.3: FileServer1

192.168.18.6: FileServer2

192.168.18.4: HyperVisor1 (For Hosted desktops)

192.168.18.5: HyperVisor2 (For Hosted desktops)

I want to cluster the filservers and the hypervisors. In Fileserver1 and fileserver2 i have installed the iscsi Target. Is this the right way to configure the cluster?

Sincerely,
Martien van Dijk

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My External Hard Drive is now classified as RAW - can you format it

ear Forum,

I have a Generic Flash External Disk Drive that I am having trouble formatting.

It has data that used to be on it before I changed the Storage Policies on the Control Set in the Registry Editor after reading on how to do it on the Microsoft Knowledge Base [url=http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/formatting-disks-and-drives-frequently-asked-questions]Formatting disks and drives: frequently asked questions[/url]

I have copied and pasted the data that was originally on the disk - I just want to know if there is a way of making the Generic External Disk Drive usable again.

I am unsure of the different names to change it to and just wish to utilise it again.

I tried to change the Format via this link [url=http://www.wikihow.com/Format-FAT32]How to Format FAT32: 7 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow[/url] - It came up that I had bad sectors.

Can someone please assist?

This is what I did in Registry Editor - I had to create the the StorageDevicePolicies folder.

Open Registry Editor.
In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
Note: This key might not exist. In that case simply create it as a new key under the parent key.
Create the following value (DWORD):
WriteProtect
and give it a value of 1.
Note: As always, before making changes to your registry you should always make sure you have a valid backup. In cases where you're supposed to delete or modify keys or values from the registry it is possible to first export that key or value(s) to a .REG file before performing the changes.
Close Registry Editor.
Done!

I really require the information or wish to reuse the disk so can someone assist 

or 

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=7A797BF1CB645296%211261

Dear Forum,

I have a Generic Flash External Disk Drive that I am having trouble formatting.

It has data that used to be on it before I changed the Storage Policies on the Control Set in the Registry Editor after reading on how to do it on the Microsoft Knowledge Base [url=http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/formatting-disks-and-drives-frequently-asked-questions]Formatting disks and drives: frequently asked questions[/url]

I have copied and pasted the data that was originally on the disk - I just want to know if there is a way of making the Generic External Disk Drive usable again.

I am unsure of the different names to change it to and just wish to utilise it again.

I tried to change the Format via this link [url=http://www.wikihow.com/Format-FAT32]How to Format FAT32: 7 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow[/url] - It came up that I had bad sectors.

Can someone please assist?

This is what I did in Registry Editor - I had to create the the StorageDevicePolicies folder.

Open Registry Editor.
In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
Note: This key might not exist. In that case simply create it as a new key under the parent key.
Create the following value (DWORD):
WriteProtect
and give it a value of 1.
Note: As always, before making changes to your registry you should always make sure you have a valid backup. In cases where you're supposed to delete or modify keys or values from the registry it is possible to first export that key or value(s) to a .REG file before performing the changes.
Close Registry Editor.
Done!

I really require the information or wish to reuse the disk so can someone assist 

or 

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=7A797BF1CB645296%211261

Melissa Lindsay

Hi Gang,

  I have an environment with a domain-based Namespace on two 2008 R2 servers.  The users are all on Apple computers running OS 10.8.5 or (only two) on 10.9.

  Within the Namespace, I have 7 shared folders that are all on the same server and drive.  Several of the users have noted that one of the shares disappear from the folder list in their "Finder" and I have confirmed the fact.

So, the Namespace is \\ourcorp.com\admin, and in there are links to IMAGES, ADMIN, USERS, COUNTER, OBJECTS, UNIVERSE and COMMERCIAL

The users will often notice that the link to IMAGES has disappeared, and they will re-connect to the Namespace, re-establishing IMAGES in their list.

 All of these shares except IMAGES are folders within the same existing share on this server; i.e.  \\server\oldshare\COMMERCIAL or \\server\oldshare\OBJECTS

The IMAGES folder is itself, an existing share (by that I mean it was a share before I built the DFS Namespace); i.e. \\server\Images.  That is the only difference I can see from the other shares, which were created by adding  a new Folder Target and browsing to the folder within \\server\oldshare.

Some users also complain that they get 'disconnected' from the Namespace (they call it a 'server' because of how it's displayed in the Apple Finder).  A problem arises when they open the Finder/Server Connections and click Connect on the Namespace a second time; i.e. smb://ourcorp.com/admin - they then have a mounted drive called admin-1 which has IMAGES in it and a mounted drive called admin which doesn't.

 Might seem trivial, but a common operation they use is to right-click copy a link to the file for email to a coworker. So the recipient gets a link to a file which looks like //volumes/admin-1/objects/small/ones/anobject.png, when it should be //volumes/admin/objects/small/ones/anobject.png

When the recipient clicks on the link it's hit-or-miss whether or not they get an error.  If they have re-connected to the Namespace as the sender did, all is okay - because they have a mounted drive called admin-1. If they haven't, then they can't open the link and assume there's a problem with the system and open a service desk ticket.

Would someone here have an idea of where to look for the cause?

Your suggestions are appreciated!

- a -

Hi all,

Recently I set up DFS replication on Windows 2012 Std Server. Few days ago I tried to connect the 3rd server to this replication and found out that all volumes except C:\ drive are disappeared from DFS replication on the main server, so it can't do initial replication.

When I go to DFS snap-in and create Diagnostic report for the replication - it shows me available volumes on every server - C:\ drive only for the main one and all volumes for other servers. Shares on the main server are up and running without any problems.

So the question is how to add the volumes back to DFS replication, any ideas?

Kind regards,

Artem.

Hi team, 

We had massive outage to user's logging on to their PC's and were struck at the log on Screens - Usual suspects were 

DC - authentication was working as other sites were not having any issues

DHCP- was leasing addresses.

Network Connectivity-switches\routers - All UP and no unusual operation.

That leaves/narrows it down to - their H:drives on a server 2012 box - even here i was able to log on as normal with no issues - was able to connect to the shares and all user permissions were intact. All user incidents reported had their home drives pointing to this server. A management decision was made to bounce the box and  surprisingly this came back good after the box was back UP again.

My Question - what/where do i look for in the event viewer to narrow down on what exactly was going wrong on the server that it would not allow connections for users logging in while all other resources/services on the same server are responding normally? 

Hello everyone;;

I am in deep trouble.. I did install routing and remote access and then  lost connection to the server remotely. Then I connected a monitor to the server and removed the role... then it asked me to restart the server . After logging back in I found all my active directory service has gone... I can see red cross on active directory domain services.. Also I am able to ping other pcs but other pcs cannot ping my server..

However when I go into the active directory services, it shows all services are running except file replication service. I have tried to start that service but it give error 1053 error..

My server in  between loses LAN connection... I dont know what is going on.. Please help!!!

My  server is win 2008 R2 ser pack 1

Only one DC....

Has fixed ip, 

no DNS server running..

Today 12/16/13 I ran a windows update on a lab Windows Server 2012 R2. which is being used for iSCSI. After rebooting I lost 6 of the 10 devices established. All of these devices are provisioned off a local drive in a single folder where all of the vhdx's still exist.

When I try to import the devices back I am told: Unable to import the virtual disk. A virtual disk with that file path already exists.

First I do not understand why the disks disappeared, as the eventlog states that they were successfully initialized but they are not listed. I understand that I can relocate the vhdx's and then import but I need to understand what happened, and how to prevent it from happening again. As, how could I look to implement a solution that has the possibility to loose data or at a minimum access to the data contained within?

I set up a new server 2012 R2 and the server is very slow. CPU and RAM usage is low but the Resource Monitor shows that Disk is 100% for "Highest Active Time" on the 10MB/S scale, while Disk I/O is relatively low.  I suspect this is why the ten Pastel clients are timing out continuously.  Even with just one or two clients logged in and maybe just running an average sized report, the server seems to be bottle necking with the storage system.  When I installed Windows, I installed Intel's latest driver.

I have read various posts and am quite puzzled as what to do about it, there were posts about changing Stripe size of the RAID for to suit SQL and disabling Write Caching on the drives.

Server hardware:

Intel S2400SC-2

3x WD Black SATA 1TB

Using the Intel RSTe embedded software RAID 5

16GB RAM

Software:

Server 2012 R2 64bit

SQL Express 2012

Thanks

Stewart

Hi,

I'm currently having some issues with our Windows Server 2008 R2 File Cluster, where the System Process is chugging along @ 80-95% CPU, which I personally find strange. After 2-3 hours of this type of resource utilization, we experience a failover to our passive node. After a few hours of user connectivity and build it the same thing happens again.

Using ProcessExplorer I have been able to identify the srv2.sys driver having massive amounts of threads being created, with several running at 10-15% + CPU utilization per thread. srv2.sys driver is for SMBv2 Connectivity from my research and troubleshooting of these issues.

I have had a ticket opened with MS Premier Support and I have completed installing all of the latest srv2.sys file updates to the latest version for 2008 R2, but we still seem to be having the issues, although it is intermittently. One of these fixes was in relation to enabling Access Based Enumeration to a certain level within your File System/Structure (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2732618/en-us)

Other hotfix installed is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2831154/en-us

We have users who run multiple image and CAD applications (Adobe InDesign, AutoCAD, MicroStation, Revit etc) across our network drives, as well as what I would call "standard" File Server access (word docs, spreadsheets, PDF's, powerpoint presentations etc).

We have ABE enabled across all volumes.

At the moment, I am praying for the server to again reach 100% CPU capacity due to the System Process using these resources.

What I was wanting to ask is, are there any known issues with using Access Based enumeration of Drives for users/applications that use these InDesign/AutoCAD like applications?

The reason I ask this is that when we experience this issue I notice more activity on our volumes that host these CAD/Design files, compared to when we experience a period of stability on the system.

I have read on a few articles regarding Microstation that if it is a specific version, that you should disable SMBv2 via registry to revert to SMBv1 for better use/stability. I am going down the path of disabling SMB2 for all users who use these CAD applications to see if this assists in resolving the issue, but I'm trying to explore all  other options/potential issues to better configure our File Cluster

Looking for guidance on troubleshooting this issue further.

Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone.

We have a setup with 4x hosts running WS2012R2 Datacenter Hyper-V towards 2x Fileservers WS2012R2 connected to a shared JBOD. All of the servers communicate over infiniband. 

We run the Hyper-V over SMB with RDMA on a CSV volume that has deduplication enabled.

We were so happy that Window server 2012 R2 was released recently so we upgraded right away and finnaly things were stable , no longer any spamming errors of hard disks in use or bsoding hosts! All have been great since the release but something happened this weekend without any of us doing any changes.

All of a sudden my System Center 2012 VMS running SQL clusters with the new "Shared VHDX" feature failed. I started to investigate the problem and it seems that we cannot "change or edit" any virtual hard disks on our entire VM share. If i try to use advance features and change to shared vhdx it fails, it does not matter if its a new vm i create or a old one.

I need some help with this, I feel clueless to why it happened or how to fix it? 

Thank you,

Marcus

Sweden

I'm trying to migrate from a single file server to a cluster (around 400 shares). old server is 2008 Storage Server. New cluster is 2008 Storage Server enterprise. I can't robocopy the data and use a registry export/import to recreate the shares as the cluster registry entry for shares are held differently in the registry.

I'm now looking to use Microsoft File Server Migration Wizard, but am having difficulty. It worked form a test server to the cluster using test shares, but if i try and copy from my live file server to the cluster, i get an error.

The setup and validation work fine. When it gets to the copy stage, it gets half ay through copying files, then throws up a fatal error:

"A Fatal Error has occured please contact Microsoft... Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Stack Trace: at FSMigration.RobocopyWrapper.ParseOutputLine(String line, RobocopyOutput Tag& tag, String&filename, UInt64& filesize)..."

Has anyone seen this before?

Any ideas where to start to fix it?

Many Thanks.

If i set up some shares on one Client Access Point, is it possible to move them over to a new CAP with a different name, without having to recreate the shares from scratch? i.e. can i just migrate it from one to the other on the same server? I can't see an option for this.

The reason i ask is that i am replacing a file server with a cluster, and i want to create the shares on the new clustered file server first, before turning off the old one. The new CAP would have the same name as the old file server, so the clients donthave to remap their shares. i have around 400 shares on the old box, so i dont want to have to recreate them again!

I've previously tried using File Server Migration Wizard and it doesnt work. plus we are talking about 10Tb of data so its not a quick process!

thanks.

Hi all,

This is more of a technical clarification than a problem we're having...

Firstly, we have a bunch of file servers in various EMEA regions, which are set up to replicate back to a central hub server at our UK datacentre in order to take backups. These spoke servers are the only location where the data is changed.

We are in the middle of migrating the hub server over to Windows Server 2008R2, meaning we can use the supported one-way replication method instead of disabling one end of the member connections.

My question is this:

Which member do we need to make read-only? This would have seemed obvious to me, however there is some confusion amongst our systems engineers.

I would have said that you make the spoke member read-only, as you don't want the hub replicating anything back to it. This makes perfect sense to me, but not everyone is so sure.

Could someone please clarify?

Hello,

we have user shares that we map to drive H:. the shares are in the form \\server\user\<loginname>. The shares have full permission and the files and folders have full permission for the user. To be clear, the shared folder is \\server\user. <loginname> are several folders, one for each user.

We use a vb script to check if a user stores too much data and if yes, we set the permissions for the user to read only and delete (with icacls).

Unfortunately, it this happens, we cannot map the drive anymore on Windows 7 (on Windows XP it works fine). The error is "Permission denied". Interestingly, the user can still open the share with the unc - path.

Is there anything I can do, so that the user still has his drive mapped? Most user are not tech savvy enough to open their share with the unc - path.

Thank You,

Peter

I recently setup a file server running Server 2012 R2 with deduplication turned on.  When I run the "Files by Owner" report in File Server Resource Manager, I'm getting post-dedup results.  For example, if I right click on a user's folder and chose properties, it tells me "Size: 11.5 GB" and "Size on Disk: 152MB".  The "Files by Owner" report shows the 152 MB number.  I need it to show the 11.5 GB number.  Does anyone know how to do this?  I can't find any options in the report for this.

One thing I did notice is that the vast majority of the files are "owned" by "NT Authority\System".  I'm guessing this is why.

Thanks

Dave

We have file server, which is using windows 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 2. Today suddently no one can access its file share. I try to login to the server and open services, but it is so slow to respond. I have to reboot the machine. After the server reboot, it is back normal. Any one know why?

Here are the system errors shown before the machine rebooted. First question, I am not sure which error really causes the problem. The machine is set to use WSUS to get windows update.  On the automatic updates, it is set to "Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them." Second question, why the machine is still trying to install update without permission? Please help. Thanks.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows Update Agent
Event Category: Installation
Event ID: 20
Date:  12/13/2013
Time:  12:55:58 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: CHCDSSRV1
Description:
Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0xfffffbf8: Automatic Updates.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 57 69 6e 33 32 48 52 65   Win32HRe
0008: 73 75 6c 74 3d 30 78 66   sult=0xf
0010: 66 66 66 66 62 66 38 20   ffffbf8
0018: 55 70 64 61 74 65 49 44   UpdateID
0020: 3d 7b 44 36 37 36 36 31   ={D67661
0028: 45 42 2d 32 34 32 33 2d   EB-2423-
0030: 34 35 31 44 2d 42 46 35   451D-BF5
0038: 44 2d 31 33 31 39 39 45   D-13199E
0040: 33 37 44 46 32 38 7d 20   37DF28}
0048: 52 65 76 69 73 69 6f 6e   Revision
0050: 4e 75 6d 62 65 72 3d 30   Number=0
0058: 20 00                      .     

Event Type: Error
Event Source: W32Time
Event Category: None
Event ID: 46
Date:  12/13/2013
Time:  1:23:58 PM
User:  N/A
Computer: CHCDSSRV1
Description:
The time service encountered an error and was forced to shut down.  The error was: 0x800706BB: The RPC server is too busy to complete this operation.

Hello all,

I have a Windows Server 2012 Failover cluster running a number of virtual machines. Storage for the cluster is provided by a Windows Storage Server 2012 instance and mapped to the nodes via iSCSI. In addition, I use DPM 2012 SP1 to protect the clustered VMs. The snapshot provider configuration was set up in accordance with the instructions and guidance at http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/10/08/iscsi-target-storage-vds-vss-provider.aspx . I had the same setup with Server 2008 R2, but recently upgraded to take advantage of the hardware snapshot provider and performance improvements claimed by Microsoft.

Since configuring the protection group for the clustered virtual machines, the group shows that all of the members are in an ideal state and there are no errors in the cluster event log. However, there are some issues in the event logs for the cluster nodes around the time the backups are being taken. This isn't the reason for this post, however, though it may be related.

While having a look at the iSCSI configuration on the storage server yesterday, I noticed the following...

Get-iSCSIVirtualDisk

ClusterGroupName   :
ComputerName       : myserver
Description        : Cluster Shared Volume
DiskType           : Fixed
HostVolumeId       : {67F71B49-BD09-457E-8E33-34607970BE1C}
LocalMountDeviceId :
OriginalPath       :
ParentPath         :
Path               : e:\csv.vhd
SerialNumber       : C4A45A4D-E7E0-4AEE-B800-403DD32E8A61
Size               : 8796093022208
SnapshotIds        : {{19C35EF1-C02D-49E4-9C38-B3AE500E2524}, {82FA960F-529E-4A41-A0B7-4F4981846051},
                     {E59C4532-5280-4465-B2EB-9FD31175F665}, {ED2F4661-2882-4C11-9B27-C946D6695219}...}
Status             : Connected
VirtualDiskIndex   : 1777681073

ClusterGroupName   :
ComputerName       : myserver
Description        : Snapshot of virtual disk 1777681073 taken at 12/8/2013 12:04:38 AM
DiskType           : ReadOnlySnapshot
HostVolumeId       : {67F71B49-BD09-457E-8E33-34607970BE1C}
LocalMountDeviceId :
OriginalPath       : e:\csv.vhd
ParentPath         :
Path               : \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy{2F56E973-560E-11E3-93F6-00259067F05B}\csv.vhd
SerialNumber       : C4A45A4D-E7E0-4AEE-B800-403DD32E8A61
Size               : 8796093022208
SnapshotIds        :
Status             : NotConnected
VirtualDiskIndex   : 1977840284

MANY others listed here...

ClusterGroupName   :
ComputerName       : myserver
Description        : Snapshot of virtual disk 1777681073 taken at 12/18/2013 1:03:52 AM
DiskType           : ReadOnlySnapshot
HostVolumeId       : {67F71B49-BD09-457E-8E33-34607970BE1C}
LocalMountDeviceId :
OriginalPath       : e:\csv.vhd
ParentPath         :
Path               : \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy{F1BD4A63-60EC-11E3-93F6-00259067F05B}\csv.vhd
SerialNumber       : C4A45A4D-E7E0-4AEE-B800-403DD32E8A61
Size               : 8796093022208
SnapshotIds        :
Status             : NotConnected
VirtualDiskIndex   : 2007241302

My searches for an explanation for this has, so far, turned up nothing.

When I do a "vssadmin list shadows" a whole bunch of crap is spit out as well:

vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2012 Microsoft Corp.

Contents of shadow copy set ID: {2020c103-c81f-4c9f-a3e9-43ab496ba5b4}
   Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 11/29/2013 5:14:45 PM
      Shadow Copy ID: {09b6cd4f-28d2-4498-a132-3f9d6c716580}
         Original Volume: (E:)\\?\Volume{67f71b49-bd09-457e-8e33-34607970be1c}\
         Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1
         Originating Machine: myserver
         Service Machine: myserver
         Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
         Type: DataVolumeRollback
         Attributes: Persistent, No auto release, No writers, Differential, Auto recovered

....

Contents of shadow copy set ID: {b3650eb5-ae1c-4ff1-92f0-90a33d0f82b1}
   Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 12/18/2013 12:34:08 AM
      Shadow Copy ID: {757b8c99-265a-4206-8a16-31b28597cf2f}
         Original Volume: (E:)\\?\Volume{67f71b49-bd09-457e-8e33-34607970be1c}\
         Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy40
         Originating Machine: myserver
         Service Machine: myserver
         Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
         Type: DataVolumeRollback
         Attributes: Persistent, No auto release, No writers, Differential, Auto recovered

Contents of shadow copy set ID: {4f58d81d-ebe1-48fe-a88b-17ff0b20757f}
   Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 12/18/2013 1:03:52 AM
      Shadow Copy ID: {318a9fb3-1476-4a41-98eb-00a60718cb3f}
         Original Volume: (E:)\\?\Volume{67f71b49-bd09-457e-8e33-34607970be1c}\
         Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy41
         Originating Machine: myserver
         Service Machine: myserver
         Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
         Type: DataVolumeRollback
         Attributes: Persistent, No auto release, No writers, Differential, Auto recovered

I can't find anything related in the system event log, but the timing of the majority of the creation times coincides somewhat with my backup schedule. Last night, there were 40 copies; this morning, there were 43. There are 3 virtual machines in the protection group, not sure if this is coincidence or not.

I was wondering if anyone could possibly enlighten me as to what exactly is going on here? Why are these snapshots appearing as iSCSI virtual disks? This looks like a potential cause for a major disaster...

Thanks for reading.

Greg

Hi,

I'm just testing Windows 2012 R2 storage spaces on a lab with an MSA70 containing 25 SAS disks.

So I created a storage pool with the 25 disks, then tried to create a mirrored virtual disks and it failed telling me that I did not have the appropriate number of disks.
I removed one of the physical disk from the storage pool (now down to 24), and was then able to create a two-way mirror virtual disk!

I thought that the two-way mirror functionality in Storage Spaces would be writing block randomly on two disks, and not specifically "link" two physical disks together in a mirror.

Is that not the case? why do I need a even number of disks when creating a two-way mirror?

Thank you,
Stephane