Installing a server OS on a server with a PCI raid controller card
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How to Backup VMware Infrastructure with Nakivo Backup & Replication
In this article we will learn how to backup a VMware farm using Nakivo Backup & Replication. In this tutorial we will install the software on a Windows 2012 R2 Server.
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Recently, a client was discarding an old Lenovo RS 160 …
Recently, a client was discarding an old Lenovo RS 160 server. This system seemed like a nice …
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Advice on best practices for Synology NAS server
We have just received a Synology NAS RS1221+. It has a quad core processor with 16GB of ram, and 4
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Hard drive Predictive failure questions
I have an HP Proliant DL380 with a drive that is indicating predictive failure (RAID 6). I'm fairly
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RAID 1 replace drive missing partition.
I removed a failed 100gb hard disk with 2 partitions from a Windows7 dell workstation RAID 1. I
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Three "Dead Drives" appear in a Promise RAID after removal and spraying off dust
Promise Pegasus 2 RAID with four 3TB drives
Connected to new Intel iMac - Mac OS 11.5.2 via a
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VMware 5.5 datastore missing
VMWare 5.5 on HP DL380P - lost it's datastore following a reboot.
We have a simple setup of ESXI on
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How to Secure erase VMware VMs on Local R530 RAID 10
How do we secure erase VMs on VMware datastsore.
The datastore is a Perc H730 Virtual disk made up of
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Current RAID Controllers
What RAID controllers and drives are people using today for an entry level server? 15-users.
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Upgrade of ESXi 6.5 - no longer can see internal server RAID drives
We have an incident where after upgrading our Supermciro to the latest 6.5 ESXi release where ESXi …
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Can we replace SAS HHD with SAS SSD in a Raid 10 one drive at a time?
We have a Dell PowerEdge R730 Server. It has a PERC H330 Integrated RAID Controller and we are using
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Which slots to use for PCIe-NVMe storage devices?
I'm considering setting up two PCIe-card NVMe drives (RAID 1 through Windows Server) on a Dell T430
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Hello experts can you guys please advise me I have scenario …
Hello experts can you guys please advise me I have scenario I need to add more disk space to File …
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Need help adding hot swap drive to Dell Power Edge T320 Server
I have added two 600GB drives to my server but do not see any additional storage space. Can anyone …
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Add 2 drives to Synology DS418 NAS
I have a Synology DS418. It has 4 drive bays. Currently 2 of the drive bays are occupied by 2 each
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unable to boot Dell T5500, PERC problem
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I've got a workstation that I'd prefer not to lose at this time.
When I try to boot it, i …
I've got a workstation that I'd prefer not to lose at this time.
When I try to boot it, i …
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I have a Synology DS418 NAS. It's working well. I have 2 RAID volumes configured on it.
My
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Do I need to have a Raid 5 to have two Virtual Machines on my 2019 Server?
I have a Server running 2019 Server. I have the drives broken up into a Raid 1 with the 2019 on two …
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the RAID card configuration for read and write
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I have a cached hardware RAID card from (LSI, name changed now!) and I have define 2 x RAID 1 and …
I have a cached hardware RAID card from (LSI, name changed now!) and I have define 2 x RAID 1 and …
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RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.