Recent content by Gigas-VII

Turn out, to do what I want to do, I need to have 2x Optane sticks installed in my system, and I'm out of M.2 ports. So now I'm thinking I'll continue this experiment on my Threadripper build, where I have more PCIe and M.2. I know I could get a PCIe -> M.2 adapter card, but that would give...

I wanted to follow up on this. I found some instructions on how to create Storage Spaces tiers manually using Powershell. I've run a preliminary test of my mirrored storage space, and saw approximately 60-70MB/s write speeds, and 150-200MB/s read speeds. That's not amazing but not horrific...

I hear what you're thinking. In other filesystems, the behavior you're describing might be possible. in Storage Spaces + ReFS, I don't think I could tune the pool to work exactly the way you're thinking. However, I also think it's not big deal to test it out. Here's what I need. I need...

The write scenario you described is exactly the kind of scenario that I intend. I'm a photographer. I download sometimes 200GB of images from memory cards all at once, and then need to go into editing them. The actual RAW files are perfect to be read-cached because the data in them doesn't...

Exactly. but what if you could get really nice performance out of pools of these disks, in a small form-factor, just by adding another storage tier? That's what I'm trying to find out. I'm not debating the theory. I'm ready to test it and provide some benchmark results. I need some help to...

you're right, but, while the pool is working from the cache rather than the disks, the disks are left with more available idle cycles to rearrange data onto contiguous blocks, and mark old blocks as available for re-use. Right now that happens internally to the disks as they are self-managing...

singled drives do have on-disk caching, but if you need to write more data than is in available (forgive my incorrect use of terms, someone can correct me later) in fresh blocks within fresh pages, then a cleanup cycle may occur during writing. If we can coalesce writes in advance on even...

I'd love to actually bench this idea, though. To find out if it's actually worth doing, or not. I already own the hardware.

A few months ago I had an idea. SMR disks tend to struggle with writes, especially random writes, so what about using an Optane NVMe stick (3DXpoint memory) as an insanely good write cache? I've configured a pair of 5TB SMR disks as a mirrored pool of disks using Storage Spaces, running on a...

Yes, Domain join successful, always has been.

_Gea no I understand that ephemeral mappings happen automatically. I don't think they're happening for me. I only have a few idmap entries in place, along the lines of what you're describing. But when I log in with a domain account using one of those, it doesn't work. Is it possible my...

I've been having nothing but trouble with AD integration on: OI 151a9, napp-it 0.9f1 When I connect to my SMB share from a windows box, I'm prompted for credentials. I'm already logged in with an AD account. OI can ping the DCs, and can resolve hostnames. if I use local credentials, my share...

Sorry, I caught a nasty (human)virus and was pretty sick for a week there, and completely forgot to get it. I'm working on a good set of instructions now. I'll update this as I work. Sources: VirtualPC Guy Blog: Configuring Remote Management of Hyper-V Server - in a Workgroup Public Jotting -...

The explanation for this problem is pretty simple: Microsoft assumed that Hyper-V Server would be used in Domain environments, where Group Policy would dictate the firewall settings / DCOM configuration, Kerberos would be used for auth, etc. To get it working in a Workgroup, you need to disable...

I'm seconding -Dragon- on this one. RSAT gives you the GUI you want, if you need it. The point of being CLI-only is to reduce the footprint of the configuration VM that runs on the hypervisor. It's the same idea as using Server Core rather than the full-blown GUI installation. In server...