Advice on storage space with hosts.

im new to the creating a website and hosting it through a company. i know that .mac has its website hosting but im curious as to if that is a decent one to host through. does it give enough space for data transfer and all that? or are there better hosts out there. what is a good amount of space to have? im currently debating on using iweb or RapidWeaver to create my site. i came across a hosting site that ive seen reccomended but im not sure if its good enough. heres the link:
http://littleoak.net/index.html
im really leaning toward RapidWeaver because of how its more custimizable. and Little Oak has specific hosting for it. Any ideas to help me out?

If Radidweaver does what you need, go for it, but I would fool around with the demo first and make sure I like it..
The host your refer to does not seem to give you much storage space, if I understand it correctly.
Don't know how large you site will be, but even 1500 meg might not do it.
This day and age hosts generally talk in gigs not megs. Again, if I understand what they are offering.
Take a look at a host like godaddy and compare what they offer.

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Storage Space with Photo Connector

Friends,
I have a 20gb u2 photo iPod. I'm using an ipod photo connector and it seems to only let me store about 2gb of photos when this is still like 12gb of free space on the ipod. What is the go with that?
Cheers
empiregordo

Hello Sean R,
Do you mean that you want to create a two way mirror storage space with 6TB space?
Based on my test, I create three VHD, two 4GB VHD and one 8 GB VHD.
And then try to create a two way mirror storage space. Please take a look at the following screenshot.
The total pool capacity is only 13.7 GB, so I can create a 8GB storage space with fault tolerant.
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
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I take a lot of pictures on my iPhone 4s is there a way I can save some storage space with photostream or I cloud??

I take a lot of pictures with my iphone4s. Is there any way I can save storage space with photostream or iCloud??

Hi ...
Photo Stream which is part of iCloud is for storage and back up.
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Tiered Storage Spaces with LSI RAID Controller 9260-8i (no JBOD) - Performance Drop

Hello
I have a Lab-Server with a LSI-Raid-Controller 9260-8i and 2x 256GB SSDs / 6x 600GB HDDs. First I configured the LSI-Raid-Controller with a RAID 1 (2x 600GB HDD) and installed
Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V Role on this RAID 1. This works just fine. Then I configured the LSI-Raid-Controller with additional 6x "Raid 0 Drive Groups" where each Drive Group has one single physical drive
in it. And then I created 6 virtual drives out of these 6 Drive Groups. So far so good: my Windows Server 2012 R2 now sees 6 new Harddrives (4x 600GB HDD and 2x 256GB SSD). I then created a Storage Pool out of these 6 drives (with PowerShell /
assign MediaType SSD/HDD) and on top of the Storage Pool a "Tiered Storage Space" with Mirror Layout (2x 256GB SSDs mirrored and 2x2x 600GBs HDD mirrored). This gives me a Tiered Storage Space of about 1.3TB. On this Storage
Space I created a Virtual Drive of 1.3TB capacity. Success!! It seems to work fine.... Even I do not have a Storage-Controller supporting JBOD directly, I was able to create a Tiered Storage Space!!
Now where's the problem? Fine-Tuning the LSI-Raid-Controller Settings and the resulting
Disk Performance....
1) LSI-Raid-Controller: Virtual Drive Properties: What should I choose? Read Policy (Ahead or no) / Write Policy (Write Back with BBU or Write Through) / IO Policy (Direct IO or cached IO) / Disk Cache Policy (enable or disabled or unchanged)
/ Stripe Size (256 KB or ??). Do these settings conflict with the Windows Server Storage Space Layout?
2) Windows Server Disk Management (under "Disk XY"): Write Cache Policy? (activate Write Cache on this Device)
3) Windows Server Device Manager (under "Drives" - Microsoft Storage Space Device): Write Cache Policy? (activate Write Cache on this Device)
4) Performance - Results with Crystal Disk Mark: the inital Results after setting up the Storage were quite good (Seq R: 550 MB/s and W: 590 MB/s // 512K R: 490MB/s and W: 618 MB/s // 4K R: 18MB/s and W: 37 MB/s // 4KQD32
R:270 MB/s and W:37 MB/S) But 2 months later the values dropped to: Seq R: 290 MB/s and W: 170 MB/s // 512K R: 120MB/s and W: 239 MB/s // 4K R: 1.5MB/s and W: 31 MB/s // 4KQD32 R: 9 MB/s and W: 71 MB/S). Huge loss of performance
- SSD full?
5) Since this is a Hyper-V Server I put some VMs on it. The Performance within the VMs has also dropped accordingly. Are there any
best practices when placing VHDX-Files on a Tired Storage Space? I could of course assign one or two VHDX-Files directly to the SSD Tier, but actually I don't want that because that would use too much SSD-Space.
Any Experts on this Subject?
Mark

Hi Mark,
For the settings of the Raid Controller, it is better to confirm with manufacturer for detailed information. As you said these settings will affect with storage space settings.
From the description you set the 6 disks as 6 RAID0 groups. Is it supported to leave these disks as JBOD and directly add them into a storage space? If Raid settings will affect storage space performance, this could help us avoiding the RAID settings.
As data is already written onto the virtual disk, we may not available to recreate it. You could have a try with following PowerShell cmdlet to see if it will work better after optimize.
Optimize-Volume -DriveLetter X -TierOptimize
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How to design Storage Spaces with a large number of drives

I am wondering how one might go about designing a storage space for a large number of drives. Specifically I've got 45 x 4TB drives. As i am not extremely familiar with storage spaces, i'm a bit confused as to how I should go about designing this. Here is
how i would do it in hardware raid and i'd like to know how to best match this setup in Storage Spaces. I've been burned twice now by poorly designed storage spaces and i don't want to get burned again. I want to make sure if a drive fails, i'm able to properly
replace it without SS tossing it's cookies.
In the hardware raid world, i would divide these 45 x 4TB drives into three separate 15 disk Raid 6's. (Thus losing 6 drives to parity) Each raid 6 would show up as a separate volume/drive to the parent
OS. If any disk failed in any of the three raids, i would simply pull it out and put a new disk back in and the raid would rebuild itself.
Here is my best guess for storage spaces. I would create 3 separate storage pools each containing 15 disks. I would then create a separate
Dual Parity Virtual Disk for each pool. (Also losing 6 drives to parity) Each virtual disk would appear as a separate volume/disk
to the parent OS. Did i miss anything?
Additionally, is there any benefit to breaking up my 45 disks into 3 separate pools? Would it be better to create one giant pool with all 45 disks and then create 3 (or however many) virtual disks on top of that one pool?

I am wondering how one might go about designing a storage space for a large number of drives. Specifically I've got 45 x 4TB drives. As i am not extremely familiar with storage spaces, i'm a bit confused as to how I should go about designing this. Here is
how i would do it in hardware raid and i'd like to know how to best match this setup in Storage Spaces. I've been burned twice now by poorly designed storage spaces and i don't want to get burned again. I want to make sure if a drive fails, i'm able to properly
replace it without SS tossing it's cookies.
In the hardware raid world, i would divide these 45 x 4TB drives into three separate 15 disk Raid 6's. (Thus losing 6 drives to parity) Each raid 6 would show up as a separate volume/drive to the parent
OS. If any disk failed in any of the three raids, i would simply pull it out and put a new disk back in and the raid would rebuild itself.
Here is my best guess for storage spaces. I would create 3 separate storage pools each containing 15 disks. I would then create a separate
Dual Parity Virtual Disk for each pool. (Also losing 6 drives to parity) Each virtual disk would appear as a separate volume/disk
to the parent OS. Did i miss anything?
Additionally, is there any benefit to breaking up my 45 disks into 3 separate pools? Would it be better to create one giant pool with all 45 disks and then create 3 (or however many) virtual disks on top of that one pool?
1) Try to avoid parity and esp. double parity RAIDs with a typical VM workload. It's dominated by small reads (OK) and small writes (not OK as whole parity stripe gets updated with any "ready-modify-write" sequence). As a result writes would be DOG slow.
Another nasty parity RAID characteristic is very long rebuild times... It's pretty easy to get second (third with double parity) drive failure during re-build process and that would render the whole RAID set useless. Solution would be to use RAID10. Much safer,
faster to work and rebuild compared to RAID5/6 but wastes half of raw capacity...
2) Creating "islands" of storage is an extremely effective way of stealing IOPS away from your config. Typical modern RAID set would run out of IOPS long before running out of capacity so unless you're planning to have a file dump of an ice cold data or
CCTV storage you'll absolutely need all IOPS from all spindles @ the same time. This again means One Big RAID10, OBR10.
Hope this helped a bit :) Good luck!
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Install Windows Server 2012 R2 VM on Storage Spaces with Storage Tiers

Hey guys
In my small/medium sized company we will soon update to Windows Server 2012 R2. I would like to implement virtual servers using Hyper-V. I didn't find a lot of information about Hyper-V in combination with storages spaces and autoamted storage tiers.
And this is very confusing to me as it seems to me that this would be the best practice as it is the most cost-efficient and most elegant solution.
My ideal scenario:
With Hyper-V I virtualize two Windows Server 2012 R2 instances. So two separate virtual machines.
I use the following disk setup:
1x cheap HDD 40GB for hyper-v server 2012 r2 core.
2x SSD 200GB (enterprise-grade)
2x HDD 4TB (7.2k, enterprise-grade)
Step 1:
I will install Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Core on the 40GB HDD. Via command line, I will create a storage pool with automated tiered storage using the SSDs and the HDDs in mirrored mode the following way:
With Tiered Storage, I create a storage pool containing the SSDs and the HDDs. Then I create storage space A (1TB) and B (3.2TB) with the SSDs in a mirrored setup and the HDDs in a mirrored setup. The SSDs for the „hot files“ and the HDDs for the „cold files“.
Step2:
Ontop of the storage space A I want to install the first Windows Server 2012 R2 instance with Active directory. On storage space B I want to install the second Windows Server 2012 R2 instance for a business application to run on it.
Conclusion:
The SSDs are mirrored and therefore one SSD can fail.
The 4TB HDDs are mirrored and therefore one HDD can fail.
I have a fast and easy scalable environment.
But in the Internet I found many information that it’s not possible to install an operating system onto a storage tier.
Question 1:
Is this setup possible?
Question 2:
If this setup is possible, why is not everyone doing it?
Question 3:
Is it possible to do Step 1 over a GUI from a remote machine?
Question 4:
If the creation of Storage Tiers in the Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is not possible. Would it work to use a Windows Server 2012 R2 as a parent system on the 40GB HDD? To do Step 1?
I would gladly get some feedback of people knowing Storage Tiers well.
Thanks a lot!

I would absolutely prefer a GUI. But a Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Licence allows you to run two VM machines.
It also grants you a physical installation ("POSE" in the licensing documents). You can buy one copy of WS2012R2 Standard, install it on the hardware, enable Hyper-V, and then operate two virtual machines with WS2012R2 Standard ("VOSE"
in the licensing documents). The only restriction is that the management operating system (POSE) can only run services and applications meant to manage the virtual machines and/or the management operating system. The Hyper-V Server license is the same way
so it's not really any different.
In short, given the benefits of the GUI at your stage of learning, you have no solid reason not to install the full system and take advantage of it. You can disable the GUI later once you get your footing. Or not. Whatever suits you. However, in response
to your Question 3, you can do this all remotely. Once you get WS2012R2 installed in a guest, you can use it to manage the management operating system if you want. There are many options.
But then I would also need to have redundancy on the 40GB HDD as if this HDD brakes, all others brake as well?
Yes, you're going to want some redundancy for the management operating system. But, you've listed 5 drives in your original layout. You don't really have a 5-bay system, do you? Is there an empty sixth bay? Could you not get two 40 GB drives instead of one
and use hardware RAID-1?
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HT4847 can you share icloud storage space with a family member?

I used to have MobileMe family, and my wife and I are now both receiving alerts that we are running out of icloud space. Can you buy a shared icloud plan?
Thanks

If you are both using the same Apple ID, then you can share the iCloud storage that you have. However sharing an Apple ID for iCloud is not really recommended, it results in confusion over contacts, calendar, notes etc etc.

Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces Simple RAID 0 VERY SLOW reads, but fast writes with LSI 9207-8e SAS JBOD HBA Controller

Has anyone else seen Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces with a Simple RAID 0 (also happens with Mirrored RAID 1 and Parity RAID 5) virtual disk exhibiting extremely slow read speed of 5Mb/sec, yet write performance is normal at 650Mb/sec in RAID 0?
Windows Server 2012 Standard
Intel i7 CPU and Motherboard
LSI 9207-8e 6Gb SAS JBOD Controller with latest firmware/BIOS and Windows driver.
(4) Hitachi 4TB 6Gb SATA Enterprise Hard Disk Drives HUS724040ALE640
(4) Hitachi 4TB 6Gb SATA Desktop Hard Disk Drives HDS724040ALE640
Hitachi drives are directly connected to LSI 9207-8e using a 2-meter SAS SFF-8088 to eSATA cable to six-inch eSATA/SATA adapter.
The Enterprise drives are on LSI's compatibility list. The Desktop drives are not, but regardless, both drive models are affected by the problem.
Interestingly, this entire configuration but with two SIIG eSATA 2-Port adapters instead of the LSI 9207-8e, works perfectly with both reads and writes at 670Mb/sec.
I thought SAS was going to be a sure bet for expanding beyond the capacity of port limited eSATA adapters, but after a week of frustration and spending over $5,000.00 on drives, controllers and cabling, it's time to ask for help!
Any similar experiences or solutions?

Has anyone else seen Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces with a Simple RAID 0 (also happens with Mirrored RAID 1 and Parity RAID 5) virtual disk exhibiting extremely slow read speed of 5Mb/sec, yet write performance is normal at 650Mb/sec in RAID 0?
Windows Server 2012 Standard
Intel i7 CPU and Motherboard
LSI 9207-8e 6Gb SAS JBOD Controller with latest firmware/BIOS and Windows driver.
(4) Hitachi 4TB 6Gb SATA Enterprise Hard Disk Drives HUS724040ALE640
(4) Hitachi 4TB 6Gb SATA Desktop Hard Disk Drives HDS724040ALE640
Hitachi drives are directly connected to LSI 9207-8e using a 2-meter SAS SFF-8088 to eSATA cable to six-inch eSATA/SATA adapter.
The Enterprise drives are on LSI's compatibility list. The Desktop drives are not, but regardless, both drive models are affected by the problem.
Interestingly, this entire configuration but with two SIIG eSATA 2-Port adapters instead of the LSI 9207-8e, works perfectly with both reads and writes at 670Mb/sec.
I thought SAS was going to be a sure bet for expanding beyond the capacity of port limited eSATA adapters, but after a week of frustration and spending over $5,000.00 on drives, controllers and cabling, it's time to ask for help!
Any similar experiences or solutions?
1) Yes, being slow either on reads or on writes is a quite common situation for storage spaces. See references (with some of the solutions I hope):
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverfiles/thread/a58f8fce-de45-4032-a3ef-f825ee39b96e/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/10/10/windows-server-2012-storage-spaces-is-it-for-you-could-be.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserver8gen/thread/64aff15f-2e34-40c6-a873-2e0da5a355d2/
and this one is my favorite putting a lot of light on the issue:
http://helgeklein.com/blog/2012/03/windows-8-storage-spaces-bugs-and-design-flaws/
2) Issues with SATA-to-SAS hardware is also very common. See:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverClustering/thread/5d4f68b7-5fc4-4a3c-8232-a2a68bf3e6d2
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Problems with Storage Spaces

I have a storage space with 10 drives, with over 10GB of free disk space in the pool. Occasionally, certain of my spaces are inaccessible, presumably because two drives intermittently fail; these two drives total2.5g of physical space.
I have retired the two drives, but storage spaces will not let me remove them. When I click remove it says : "cant remove the drive from the pool", "drive could not be removed because not
all data could be reallocated. Add an additional drive to this pool and reattempt this operation".
How can I address this problem?

Hi,
According to Storage Space FAQ, you could find the reason:
Why do I have a low capacity warning even though I still have unused pool capacity?
Storage Spaces provides advance notification of thinly provisioned storage spaces when the storage pool does not have enough capacity spread among a sufficient number of disks to continue to write new data. The default warning point is 70% capacity utilization.
To learn when Storage Spaces will generate a warning, consider the following example.
A two column, two-way mirror space that uses thin provisioning in a four disk pool
Two of the disks have 1TB capacity and two have 2TB capacity. Because a two column, two-way mirror space needs four disks (number_of_disks = NumberOfColumns * NumberOfDataCopies), it will evenly consume all four disks as it writes new data. When capacity
utilization of the two 1TB disks reaches 70%, Storage Spaces will warn of a low capacity condition. Even though the entire pool has 3.2TB free capacity, the thinly provisioned space will soon not be able to write any more data because the 1TB disks are nearly
fully consumed.
You can easily keep individual storage spaces’ low capacity warning synchronized with each other and with the pool by following the guidance in the next section, “How do I increase pool capacity?” from the moment of creating the pool and through all
subsequent expansions of the pool.
For more details, please refer to the link below:
Storage Spaces Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11382.storage-spaces-frequently-asked-questions-faq.aspx
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

Storage space Tering feature

Customer would like to use Storage space tiering feature of Windows Server 2012 R2
However, the server host has a hardware raid card inside it.
Could we still enable Storage space tiering feature in such scenario? Thanks.

Hi Thomashk23,
If you want to enable storage space with other disk not contain RAID disk , I think it is supported .
Please refer to the similar thread :
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b1dee875-9407-43cc-a3e4-a2b4e68494e7/extend-storage-pool-with-new-space-from-raid?forum=winserver8gen
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Unable to repair degraded Virtual disks in Storage Spaces under Hyper-V 2012 R2 Core

Hi all,
I am finding myself in the following conundrum. I have a storage pool under Hyper-V Core, with 2 2TB Seagate drives.
One of the drives completely died (wouldn't spin up, tried it in a different box, still to no avail). I sent it in to Seagate for warranty replacement, got the new drive. Installed it and went through the notions of adding it to the pool and retiring the
one that was with "Lost Communication" status.
Tried to repair the virtual disks that are showing as "Unhealthy-Detached", quickly get 100% complete, but the repair didnt work.
The storage pool is in degraded state.
Looks like metadata is corrupted.
Followed this post to upgrade Storage Spaces to latest version:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/eead59e9-5e49-4bb6-8cbb-1dafddd9576b/unable-to-repair-degraded-virtual-disks-in-storage-spaces-2012r2?forum=winserverfiles
Still, to no avail.
Couple of questions:
1) Is the data on the 3 virtual disks in state "Unhealthy: Detached" not recoverable?
2) How can I get the storage pool back to "healthy"?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
PS C:\corefig> Get-PhysicalDisk | ? OperationalStatus -ne OK | fl
ObjectId : {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Pr
oviders_v2\SPACES_PhysicalDisk.ObjectId="{95
42513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:PD:{7e22
245f-0cf6-11e3-b1db-806e6f6e6963}"
PassThroughClass :
PassThroughIds :
PassThroughNamespace :
PassThroughServer :
UniqueId :
AllocatedSize : 1218696970240
BusType : Unknown
CannotPoolReason : In a Pool
CanPool : False
Description :
DeviceId :
EnclosureNumber :
FirmwareVersion :
FriendlyName : PhysicalDisk-1
HealthStatus : Warning
IsIndicationEnabled :
IsPartial : False
LogicalSectorSize : 0
Manufacturer :
MediaType : UnSpecified
Model :
OperationalStatus : Lost Communication
OtherCannotPoolReasonDescription :
PartNumber :
PhysicalLocation :
PhysicalSectorSize : 0
SerialNumber :
Size : 1999575711744
SlotNumber :
SoftwareVersion :
SpindleSpeed : 0
SupportedUsages : {Auto-Select, Manual-Select, Hot Spare,
Retired...}
Usage : Retired
PSComputerName :
PS C:\corefig> get-physicaldisk
FriendlyName CanPool OperationalS HealthStatus Usage Size
tatus
PhysicalDisk4 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 73.75 GB
PhysicalDisk0 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 1.82 TB
PhysicalDi... False Lost Comm... Warning Retired 1.82 TB
PhysicalDisk2 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 930.75 GB
PhysicalDisk3 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 74.53 GB
PhysicalDisk1 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 1.82 TB
PS C:\corefig> get-virtualdisk -friendlyname 'Data' |FC
class CimInstance#ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/MSFT_VirtualDisk
ObjectId = {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_Virt
ualDisk.ObjectId="{9542513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:VD:{3debf056-01f1-11
e3-b1d6-001fbc081884}{7e2229cf-0cf6-11e3-b1db-001fbc081884}"
PassThroughClass =
PassThroughIds =
PassThroughNamespace =
PassThroughServer =
UniqueId = CF29227EF60CE311B1DB001FBC081884
Access = Read/Write
AllocatedSize = 548413636608
DetachedReason = Incomplete
FootprintOnPool = 1096827273216
FriendlyName = Data
HealthStatus = Unhealthy
Interleave = 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled = False
IsEnclosureAware = False
IsManualAttach = False
IsSnapshot = False
LogicalSectorSize = 512
Name =
NameFormat =
NumberOfAvailableCopies =
NumberOfColumns = 1
NumberOfDataCopies = 2
OperationalStatus = Detached
OtherOperationalStatusDescription =
OtherUsageDescription =
ParityLayout = Unknown
PhysicalDiskRedundancy = 1
PhysicalSectorSize = 4096
ProvisioningType = Thin
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure = False
ResiliencySettingName = Mirror
Size = 1099511627776
UniqueIdFormat = Vendor Specific
UniqueIdFormatDescription =
Usage = Other
WriteCacheSize = 0
PSComputerName =
PS C:\corefig> get-virtualdisk -friendlyname 'Backups' |FC
class CimInstance#ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/MSFT_VirtualDisk
ObjectId = {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_Virt
ualDisk.ObjectId="{9542513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:VD:{3debf056-01f1-11
e3-b1d6-001fbc081884}{7e22255e-0cf6-11e3-b1db-001fbc081884}"
PassThroughClass =
PassThroughIds =
PassThroughNamespace =
PassThroughServer =
UniqueId = 5E25227EF60CE311B1DB001FBC081884
Access = Read/Write
AllocatedSize = 743566213120
DetachedReason = Incomplete
FootprintOnPool = 1487132426240
FriendlyName = Backups
HealthStatus = Unhealthy
Interleave = 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled = False
IsEnclosureAware = False
IsManualAttach = False
IsSnapshot = False
LogicalSectorSize = 512
Name =
NameFormat =
NumberOfAvailableCopies =
NumberOfColumns = 1
NumberOfDataCopies = 2
OperationalStatus = Detached
OtherOperationalStatusDescription =
OtherUsageDescription =
ParityLayout = Unknown
PhysicalDiskRedundancy = 1
PhysicalSectorSize = 4096
ProvisioningType = Thin
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure = False
ResiliencySettingName = Mirror
Size = 1649267441664
UniqueIdFormat = Vendor Specific
UniqueIdFormatDescription =
Usage = Other
WriteCacheSize = 0
PSComputerName =
PS C:\corefig> get-virtualdisk -friendlyname 'Music' |FC
class CimInstance#ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/MSFT_VirtualDisk
ObjectId = {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_Virt
ualDisk.ObjectId="{9542513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:VD:{3debf056-01f1-11
e3-b1d6-001fbc081884}{7e2238b9-0cf6-11e3-b1db-001fbc081884}"
PassThroughClass =
PassThroughIds =
PassThroughNamespace =
PassThroughServer =
UniqueId = B938227EF60CE311B1DB001FBC081884
Access = Read/Write
AllocatedSize = 39728447488
DetachedReason = By Policy
FootprintOnPool = 79456894976
FriendlyName = Music
HealthStatus = Unknown
Interleave = 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled = False
IsEnclosureAware = False
IsManualAttach = True
IsSnapshot = False
LogicalSectorSize = 512
Name =
NameFormat =
NumberOfAvailableCopies =
NumberOfColumns = 1
NumberOfDataCopies = 2
OperationalStatus = Detached
OtherOperationalStatusDescription =
OtherUsageDescription =
ParityLayout = Unknown
PhysicalDiskRedundancy = 1
PhysicalSectorSize = 4096
ProvisioningType = Thin
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure = False
ResiliencySettingName = Mirror
Size = 161061273600
UniqueIdFormat = Vendor Specific
UniqueIdFormatDescription =
Usage = Other
WriteCacheSize = 0
PSComputerName =
PS C:\corefig> get-virtualdisk -friendlyname 'Videos' |FC
class CimInstance#ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/MSFT_VirtualDisk
ObjectId = {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_Virt
ualDisk.ObjectId="{9542513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:VD:{3debf056-01f1-11
e3-b1d6-001fbc081884}{7e2225bc-0cf6-11e3-b1db-001fbc081884}"
PassThroughClass =
PassThroughIds =
PassThroughNamespace =
PassThroughServer =
UniqueId = BC25227EF60CE311B1DB001FBC081884
Access = Read/Write
AllocatedSize = 223606734848
DetachedReason = Incomplete
FootprintOnPool = 447213469696
FriendlyName = Videos
HealthStatus = Unhealthy
Interleave = 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled = False
IsEnclosureAware = False
IsManualAttach = False
IsSnapshot = False
LogicalSectorSize = 512
Name =
NameFormat =
NumberOfAvailableCopies =
NumberOfColumns = 1
NumberOfDataCopies = 2
OperationalStatus = Detached
OtherOperationalStatusDescription =
OtherUsageDescription =
ParityLayout = Unknown
PhysicalDiskRedundancy = 1
PhysicalSectorSize = 4096
ProvisioningType = Thin
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure = False
ResiliencySettingName = Mirror
Size = 1759325978624
UniqueIdFormat = Vendor Specific
UniqueIdFormatDescription =
Usage = Other
WriteCacheSize = 0
PSComputerName =

Hi omon_77,
You can first refer the following step by step third party article and KB:
Replace Failed Disks and Repair JBODs for Storage Spaces in Windows Server
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn782852.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Replacing a failed disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces with PowerShell
https://www.hodgkins.net.au/storage/replace-failed-disk-in-storage-spaces-pool-with-powershell/
Step By Step: How to Replace Faulty Disk In Two-Way Mirrored Storage Tiered Space
http://charbelnemnom.com/2014/09/step-by-step-how-to-replace-faulty-disk-in-two-way-mirrored-storage-tiered-space-storagespaces-ws2012r2/
More information:
Storage Spaces - Designing for Performance
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15200.storage-spaces-designing-for-performance.aspx
Storage Spaces Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831739.aspx
Windows Server Storage Spaces: What is it and why should I use it?
http://curah.microsoft.com/5049/windows-server-2012-r2-storage-spaces-what-is-it-and-why-should-i-use-it
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Storage Spaces: Virtual Disk taken offline during file copy, marked as "This disk is offline because it is out of capacity", but plenty of free space

Server 2012 RC. I'm using Storage Spaces, with two virtual disks across 23 underlying physical disks.
* First virtual disk is fixed provisioning, parity across 23 physical disks: 10,024GB capacity
* Second virtual disk is fixed provisioning, parity across the remaining space on 6 of the same physical disks: 652GB capacity
These have been configured as dynamic disks, with an NTFS volume spanned across the two (larger virtual disk first). Total volume size 10,676GB. For more details of the hardware, and why the configuration is like this, see: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserver8gen/thread/c35ff156-01a8-456a-9190-04c7bcfc048e
I'm copying several TB from a network share to this volume. It is very slow at ~12MB/sec, but works. However, three times so far, several hours in to the file copy and with plenty of free space remaining, the 10,024GB virtual disk is suddenly taken offline.
This obviously then fails the spanned volume and stops the file copy.
The second time, I took screenshots, below. The disk (Disk27) is marked offline due to "This disk is offline because it is out of capacity". And the disk in the spanned volume is marked as missing (which is what you would expect when one of its member disks
is offline).
I can then mark the disk (Disk27) back online again, and this restores the spanned volume. I can then re-start the file copy from where it failed. There doesn't appear to be any data loss, but it does cause an outage that requires manual attention. As you
can see, there is plenty of space left on the spanned volume.
Each time this has happened, there are a few event 150 errors in the System event log: "Disk 27 has reached a logical block provisioning permanent resource exhaustion condition.". Source: Disk.
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="disk" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">150</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-06-07T11:24:53.572101500Z" />
<EventRecordID>14476</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Trounce-Server2.trounce.corp</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>\Device\Harddisk27\DR27</Data>
<Data>27</Data>
<Binary>000000000200300000000000960004C0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
This error seems to be related to thin provisioning of disks. I found this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848068(v=vs.85).aspx. But both these Virtual Disks are configured as Fixed, not Thin provisioning, so it shouldn't apply.
My thoughts: the virtual disk should not spuriously go offline during a file copy, even if it was out of space. And in any case, there is plenty of free space remaining. Also, I don't understand the reason for why it is marked as offline ("This disk is offline
because it is out of capacity"). Why would a disk go offline because it was out of thin capacity, rather than just returning an "out of disk space" error while keeping it online.

Interesting Thread, I've been having the same issue. I had a failed hardware RAID that was impossible to recover in place, so after being forced to do a 1:1 backup, I find myself with 5 2TB hard drives to play with. Storage Spaces seemed like an interesting
way to go until I started facing the issues we share.
So my configuration is A VM Running Windows Server 2012 RC with 5 Virtualized Physical drives using a SCSI interface, 2TB in size that make up my storage pool. A Single Thinly provisioned Disk of 18 TB (using 1 disk for parity)
Interestly enough, write speed has not been an issue on this machine (30~70MB/s, up from 256k on the beta)
Of note to me is this error in my event log 13 minutes before the drive disappeared:
"The shadow copies of volume E: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time.Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being shadow copied."Source: volsnap, Event ID: 25, Level: Error
followed by:
"The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur in VolumeId: E:, DeviceName: \Device\HarddiskVolume17.(The physical resources of this disk have been exhausted.)"Source: Ntfs (Microsoft-Windows-Ntfs), Event ID: 140, Level: Warning
I figure the amount of space available to me before I start encountering physical limits is in the vicinity of about 7TB. It dropped out for the second time at 184 GB.
FYI, the number of columns created for me is 5
Regards,
Steven Blom

Columns in a 2way Mirror Storage Space

Hi
I have a similar question like J_Rod: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7a37e6ed-7e22-485c-a5d1-6460b2c4d63b/mimicing-raid-10-resiliency-with-storage-spaces?forum=windowsserverpreview
Why should I consider using more than 2 Columns in a 2 way mirror Storage Space? For me it makes little difference between a Storage Space with a 2 Column 2 Way Mirroring and a 6 Column 2 Way Mirroring on a 12 Disk Storage Pool (like in the Picture).
Apart from:
big write/reads which are processed by 6 disk in the 6 column configuration instead of 2 in the 2 column configuration
Filling of the disk is not synchron over all disk with the 2 column configuration
therefor i get exactly what I expect of the Storage Space when I use the 2 column configuration and try to achieve the same Result as a classic RAID10 (RAID 0 over X RAID1)

So when I create a 2 Column Mirror Storage Space can I be certain sure that I will have a disk configuration like:
Disk1 -- Disk2 -- Disk3 -- Disk4 -- Disk5 -- Disk6
Data1 -- Data1 - Data2 -- Data2 - Data3 -- Data3
So I could loose disk 1,3 and 5?
Or is there some other Magic in Storage Spaces?

Storage Space Size vs Pool Size

Hi All:
I just finished installing WS2012R2E and getting all my clients connected, transferring them from my aging WHS V1
All seems to be working well but I'm scratching my head on the fact that the Storage Pool reports 3.63Tb of storage (I have 2 x 2Tb drives) but the storage space reports 16Tb.... I tried changing the "Storage Space Size (Maximum)" to
something closer to the actual storage pool capacity but no number seems acceptable to the field.
I get it (sort of) that the storage space is different from the pool, but it seems to me that if the dashboard storage tab reports the storage space with a Capacity of 16Tb it does not give a clear picture of my storage situation.
In addition to that quirk, the dashboard storage space window, hard drives tab reports 1Tb of used space but when I click into "Manage Storage Spaces" that window reports that I'm using 2.16Tb of the 3.63Tb - ?!
I've tried searching this with no joy - maybe I just haven't stumbled across the right doc yet... Can some one enlighten or point me to a detailed description of they way this is supposed to work?
Thanks!

Hi,
It seems that you directly click “Create a storage space” in dashboard. This wizard helps you create a default storage space on the server. The new storage space can tolerate on drive failure, and its size can group up to 16 TB.
You can click “Manage Storage Spaces” in dashboard then click “create a new pool and storage space” to specific the maximum size of the storage space.
Manage Server Storage in Windows Server Essentials
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn550731.aspx
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Mandy
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My autofill button/option for filling available space with music is missing

Hey, all. I'm using the new iTunes 11. I back up to the cloud and I'm also using iMatch. At some point in the past I used the Autofill option to max out my storage space with music. Today I backed up my phone(a 4S) and restored it, then did a sync. Now I have no music and there is no autofill button at the bottom of the device screen. When I go to the Music tab, it says iMatch is on and songs can be downloaded and played via wifi. I tried shutting off iMatch, but that didn't seem to bring the option back to use Autofill. Any hints? Thanks.

I am in exactly the same boat with iPhoto. The historical music selection in the export/quicktime; inability to choose a song (vs. an album) although I've tried making a song album with just the one song I want. I've tried every suggestion other than converting my songs to MP3 and nothing works.
We should all sue Apple under UCC since the fitness for use clause is not met. Makes me really angry as it was fine in prior versions and now something that use to take a minutes has taken several hours with no solution in sight.
I am not upgrading to iPhoto 6. We're supposed to pay more on the hopes that maybe it'll be fixed? What a waste of money as the big feature in iPhoto was the make a reasonable sized QT movie to send some photos to friends. The computer isn't my life; I have no urge to spend hours reformatting songs, using iMovie, etc. I want to do the electronic equivalent of showing a stack of paper prints to a friend... you know, make my life easier, not harder

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