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Category: S2D

Upgrading a Hyper-V Cluster with Storage Spaces Di...

Posted by Kawula Dave | Mar 25, 2025 | Hyper-V, S2D, Veeam, Windows Server | 0 |

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Posted by Kawula Dave | Mar 25, 2025 | S2D, Windows Server | 0 |

UPDATE – June 27, 2017 – Deploying Sto...

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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct – Part 3...

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Aug 20, 2018

The Case of the Physical Disk “Lost Comm...

Aug 28, 2018

BUG Alert – SDDC Management Resource (Wi...

Jan 14, 2019

Performance Tuning Deduplication on Wind...

Mar 24, 2019

Need Leverage for your next Hardware Pur...

Mar 30, 2017

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Oct 7, 2018

The Case of the Partitioned Network in F...

Mar 26, 2019

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Why Do Hyper Converged Installs fail?

Nov 24, 2016

The Ultimate Veeam Production-Replica Te...

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Mar 19, 2017

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Mar 9, 2019

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Automated SDDC Diagnostics via Windows A...

Mar 23, 2019

Activating DataON MUST via Windows Admin...

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Mar 27, 2019

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Fixed SSD Journal Disks Lost Communicati...

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Fixed S2D Cluster Data retrieval failure...

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How to install patches for Storage Space...

Mar 10, 2023

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Oct 10, 2023

CVE-2023-28388 – Intel Chipset Driver So...

Dec 1, 2023

Determining Original OS Install Date – S...

Dec 30, 2023

How to fix Feature S2D is not supported ...

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Unveiling S2D and Azure Stack HCI Monito...

Apr 4, 2024

Advanced Troubleshooting Failed Replacem...

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Notes from the Field: Building a 3-Node Lenovo ThinkAgile S2D Cluster on Windows Server 2025

by Steve Labeau | Apr 11, 2025 | S2D, Windows Server

Setting up a 3-node Lenovo ThinkAgile cluster with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) on Windows Server...

Upgrading a Hyper-V Cluster with Storage Spaces Direct on Windows Server 2025 leveraging Veeam VBR Replication

by Kawula Dave | Mar 25, 2025 | Hyper-V, S2D, Veeam, Windows Server

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Upgrading a Hyper-V cluster running Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) from...

Troubleshooting Server 2022 Storage Spaces Direct (S2D): Fixing Unsupported Miniport Drivers

by Kawula Dave | Mar 25, 2025 | S2D, Windows Server

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, When migrating a Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) Cluster from Windows Server...

Advanced Troubleshooting Failed Replacement of Physical Disk Storage Spaces Direct S2D / Azure Stack HCI

by Kawula Dave | Apr 10, 2024 | S2D, Windows Server

Unveiling S2D and Azure Stack HCI Monitoring with PowerShell

by Kawula Dave | Apr 4, 2024 | Azure, S2D, Scripts

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Dave Kawula here, thrilled to share an invaluable insight into...

How to fix Veeam backup error-host is either not a cluster or has its cluster services unavailable

by Cary Sun | Apr 4, 2024 | Hyper-V, S2D, Veeam

Today I am going to show you how to fix Veeam backup failed and showed host is either not a cluster or has its cluster services unavailable error message.

How to fix Feature S2D is not supported – #AZ800 #AZ801 #S2D #HCI #WindowsServer2022

by Kawula Dave | Jan 3, 2024 | S2D, Windows Server

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I was working with one of my students in my Master Storage Spaces...

Determining Original OS Install Date – S2D HCI AZHCI

by Kawula Dave | Dec 30, 2023 | S2D

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, A client recently asked me if we could tell when a couple of S2D HCI Nodes...

CVE-2023-28388 – Intel Chipset Driver Software – Impacting Intel Servers #S2D #Veeam

by Kawula Dave | Dec 1, 2023 | Cyber Security, S2D, Veeam

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, On November 16th a CVE was issued for Intel Chipset Device Software...

Expanding a 3-Way Mirror Volume in S2D or AZHCI in Depth #S2D #AZHCI #PowerShell

by Kawula Dave | Oct 10, 2023 | S2D

Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Quick post here: a customer asked me to expand a Virtual Disk inside a...

How to install patches for Storage Space Direct Cluster Servers without Downtime

by Cary Sun | Mar 10, 2023 | Hyper-V, S2D, Step-by-Step, Windows Server

Microsoft released Windows patches on the second Tuesday of every month. This procedure installs Microsoft Windows server patches for the production cluster servers without an outage.