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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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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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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SAN freezes with Server Disk Management. Worked before rebuilding Server.
Hello, I have an old EMD Astra ES 12 SAN which has been working for the last 2 years no issues. My …
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Recovering data on a Raid 5 after OS drive failure
I have an older server Dell Power Vault NF 500. It was running Windows 2003 storage server. A week…
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M.2 SSD raid card
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I am using X9SRA motherboard from supermicro and right now I see good thing like M.2 SSD raid…
I am using X9SRA motherboard from supermicro and right now I see good thing like M.2 SSD raid…
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Configuration of RAID for MS SQL Server 2019/VM
Company had an aging 2012 sql server. No applications-- they are just using it for querying data …
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HP ProLiant ML350 G5 - Won't Boot into Windows if 2nd RAID Config is Setup:
Hey everyone. We have an old backup server here.
It has 8 hard drives. I setup a RAID config for the …
It has 8 hard drives. I setup a RAID config for the …
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RAID 0 and 10 / RAID5 what is the best option.
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I have setting up a new server. We will use the Commvault application for backup …
I have setting up a new server. We will use the Commvault application for backup …
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Perc 6/i raid 10 failure with foreign configurations
I maintain a Dell T740? Poweredge server with a Perc 6/i controller. The server went down yesterday …
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RAID configuration for SQL server
separate the database files from the log files:
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Cable identification
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Recently picked up an Avago MegaRAID 9361-8i card and it came with 2 cables. These have the …
Recently picked up an Avago MegaRAID 9361-8i card and it came with 2 cables. These have the …
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Assistance needed in setting up SNMP monitoring on VMWare
I am trying to setup SNMP monitoring on a remote VMWare 5.5 server.
I have a remote VMWare …
I have a remote VMWare …
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Failed Motherboard- How To Recover files from Raid
I have a computer that appears the motherboard is faulty. It has either a raid 0 or raid 1 (has two …
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I would like to change my RAID to single hard drives on an old sandbox server
So to explain. I have a rather old Dell Edge 2900. I replaced it with a Dell Server T430. I am now …
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Replace mirrored drive with larger capcity drive
SuperMicro host running Server 2012 R2. Have to replace a data drive with a larger drive. What's the …
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Windows 10 Pro Won't Start from RAID 0 Array
Computer was on overnight. Came back to it this afternoon and found it at the CMOS ROM BIOS screen. …
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Dell RAID - Bad Blocks on Virtual Disk
My raid array is reporting bad blocks for the virtual disk. Following the rule book from Dell, a …
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Dell Server Failed Disks
I recently installed 2 x Crucial SSDs in a Dell PowerEdge T330 with a PERC H730 Controller, there …
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LSI 9361-8i cabling to SAS drives fails to see drives
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I picked up several Seagate SAS ST6000NM0034 drives and plugged them into a working LSI …
I picked up several Seagate SAS ST6000NM0034 drives and plugged them into a working LSI …
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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.