My take on Azure Stack HCI

I never really do opinion posts, but when I started writing this.. text just kept coming.. enjoy 🙂 So the word is officially out. Windows Server Software-Defined (WSSD) is going to be rebranded to Azure Stack HCI for Windows Server 2019. When I first heard about it I was, probably just like you, surprised and […]

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Align VMs with Storage

With Storage Spaces Direct, every Metadata / write IO is redirected to the node who owns the Cluster Shared Volume. If you’re using NTFS the volume will be in “Block Redirected Mode”, if ReFS is used the volume will be in “File System Redirected Mode”.  You can see this with Powershell; Get-ClusterSharedVolumeState. More info on […]

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Windows Server 2016 Networking – Multiple DCB priorities

When configuring DCB on Windows Server 2016, you can create policies to tag specific traffic with a specific priority to let DCB handle the right QoS. For more info how this works, please see this blog series: https://www.darrylvanderpeijl.com/windows-server-2016-networking-rdma-dcb-pfc-ets-etc/ When you have multiple types of traffic that you want to separate into DCB priorities, e.g. Storage and […]

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No disks with supported bus types found to be used for S2D

I had some HP DL380’s to test Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and walked into the following error: Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect : No disks with supported bus types found to be used for S2D At line:1 char:1 + Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (MSCluster_StorageSpacesDirect:root/MSCLUSTER/…ageSpacesDirec    t) [Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect], CimException     […]

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