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Default behavior of Storage Spaces Direct results in what capacity?

I have read the Drive Symmetry Considerations and the Deploy Storage Spaces Direct articles and I'm lookup to understand the default behavior of the Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect command as it relates to capacity. According to the articles, the…
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What would be the benefit of configuring SOFS with S2D on Server 2016?

Let's say I have 4 servers in a "storage cluster", each of them has access to a JBOD of 24 hard drives. Then I have another 16 servers in a "VM cluster", running Hyper-V, each of them only has a boot disk. All of the servers are connected to a 10GbE…
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Cluster Fails when Enabling Storage Spaces Direct Server 2016

I'm trying to get a 2 Node Hyper-converged Fail-over cluster setup with 2016 Server and Storage Spaces Direct. I am able to Validate (with no errors) and Create the Cluster with the S2D tests included but when I run Enable-S2D on the Cluster the…
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Hardware involved in Direct-connect (switchless) 2-node Storage Spaces Direct Cluster

For my department, I envision a two-node cluster of identical machines, running S2D. I want to use Broadcom 57416 10GBASE-T Adapters (example description), because they support RDMA and run at the speed of the free infrastructure provided by my…
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How to Remove a Perfectly Good Disk S2D Storage Spaces Direct so it can be used by Operating System?

I am running a 2019 S2D Cluster with 4 SSD's and 8 spindles per chassis. There were 2 addl SSDs (1 of which is used for OS, the other is unused at the moment). When setting up the S2D cluster it grabbed all available disk as expected. I went to…
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Storage Spaces Direct - how to use newly added disk as local and prevent auto pooling / auto-select?

Environment: Windows 2016 FCI cluster with S2D running SQL Server cluster on 2 VMs in Azure. New vhd disk has been added to a single VM in the cluster with intention to use it as local. Because 'AutoPool' is enabled, it grabbed the disk and marked…
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Is it possible to use several disks in the pool and some disks as local disks?

I have 4-node S2D cluster with 12 disks each on Windows Server 2016 Insider Preview 16257. I applied this settings by Cosmos Darwin to prevent adding new disks to the pool automatically Is there any way to prevent Storage Spaces Direct from…
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Azure Failover Cluster Backup

We have configured a failover cluster instance in Azure (iaas), and we are running SQL 2016, and we have a backup directory presented as a csv (which is a mountpoint on the c: drive, under c:\clusterstorage) this is using storage spaces direct s2D.…
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Storage spaces direct only using 32gb for each cache device, is this normal?

I have two cache devices and 4 storage devices in two machines that are being mirrored. I ran some powershell to disable clustered storage (s2d) and in disk management I'm left with disks that are still partitioned to s2d. As you can see from my…
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S2D warning: No disks found to be used for cache

I have a Storage Cluster consisting of 2 Windows Server 2016 Datacenter configured with a storage pool with 3 virtual disks consisting of the following physical disk. MediaType : HDD FriendlyName : HP EG0900JFCKB BusType : SAS …
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Wizard for New Volume from Cluster Pool shows 0.00 GB free (despite 1.50 TB in Server Manager)

So an issue I am running into is that I have a Storage Pool using S2D created, it shows less than 2 GB used up... but when I go to run the virtual disk wizard, it has Free Space: 0.00 GB for both performance and capacity tier. Due to this, Any…
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CSV becomes unavailable after planned node shutdown

We run a 3-node hyperconverged storage spaces direct cluster with 3-way mirror resiliency. When one node is put into maintenance mode, everthing is still working fine (no errors or inaccessible resources). Shortly after the node is then shutdown,…
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IneligibleDataPartition - S2D not starting - error 2

Getting this report but can't find any usefull info how to bind these disk back together: Get-Cachediskstatus.ps1 ---------------------------------------- Node: NAS13 DiskState DiskName …
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Software-defined Storage: does spindle count matter, generally-speaking?

I'm looking into HCI solutions, most of which appear to be built around RAIN (Redundant Array of Independent Nodes), caching or tiering of "hot" and "cold" data in the form of fast, expensive cache disks (SSD/NVMe) and cheaper, slower capacity disks…
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Fixing bad network drivers on 2019 DC S2D installation

I am helping to troubleshoot an existing Windows failover cluster on Windows Server 2019 Data Center. The cluster is set up to use Storage Spaces Direct (http://aka.ms/s2d) but there are problems with the deployment, specifically the network driver…
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