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Rob-Hindman

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Re: Why it is not possible to "downgrade" from WS DC Azure Edition 2025 b26060 to WS DC 2025 b26085
Hi Karl, Thank you for your question - we currently do not permit "upgrade" in these two cases: (a) "Datacenter Azure Edition" to "Datacenter" or "Standard" (b) "Datacenter" to "Standard" because there is potential loss of features, for example a customer using a feature that is only included in "Datacenter Azure Edition" might lose that feature if they "upgraded" (technically a downgrade) to "Datacenter". -Rob.
Apr 16, 2024 Place Windows Server Insiders
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Re: Existing Windows Sever 2016 Datacenter Edition GUI to Insider Preview
Hi Calvin, Thanks for your note - Generally speaking, it is possible to upgrade from one edition to another edition that is the same or closely related. Server Core should be upgradable to Server Core, Server with Desktop Experience should be upgradable to Server with Desktop Experience. In this specific case, we are not releasing the Server with Desktop Experience editions to the Insider community, so unfortunately there is no version of Server with Desktop Experience to upgrade to. If you had a Windows Server, version 1709 Server Core version, then you could upgrade it to the latest insiders build, which I believe is build 17079. Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions. Thanks, Calvin!!! -Rob.
Jan 23, 2018 Place Windows Server Insiders
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Re: Short questions
Q8 What is Marginal Drive Handling? [Rob for Cosmos]: Documentation on this will be coming soon. In general, we are hardening Storage Spaces Direct with defenses against drives which exhibit too many bad blocks, too many IO errors or retries, or (in next year’s spring update) outlier latency. After certain (configurable) thresholds are exceeded, we mark the drive as Warning and suggest that the user should consider replacing it.
Aug 24, 2017 Place Windows Server for IT Pro
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Q6 Do you expect to use M.2 devices as data store? [Rob for Cosmos]: There is no reason (that I can think of) preventing M.2 devices being used as cache or capacity for the Storage Spaces Direct pool. We don’t really care about the physical form factor, as long as it speaks NVMe. However, a consideration would be serviceability – it’s internal and therefore hard to access, and it’s generally not safe to replace without powering down the server. AFAIK, the main appeal of M.2 is the small size, e.g. for laptops. For servers, I don’t see a clear benefit - but it should work.
Aug 24, 2017 Place Windows Server for IT Pro
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Re: Short questions
Q3 What kind of information will we be able to collect using Time Series or Alerts? [Rob for Cosmos]: Timeseries collects over 50 total series across Cluster, Server, VM, VHD, Volume, and Drive. This includes CPU, Memory, storage IOPS, IO latency, IO throughput, and even network and RDMA activity. The exact series will be published shortly, we’re writing the documentation now!
Aug 24, 2017 Place Windows Server for IT Pro
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Re: Short questions
Q2 Will Health Services be able to be operated from Server Manager? [Rob for Cosmos]: We are working on a graphical experience for the Health Service – stay tuned!
Aug 24, 2017 Place Windows Server for IT Pro
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Re: Short questions
Q1 What are the enhancement points of Health Services? [Rob for Cosmos]: The big two enhancements are: (a) Better defenses against marginal drives (b) Improved performance metrics for storage and now for compute!
Aug 24, 2017 Place Windows Server for IT Pro
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Re: Short questions
Yes. "Fall Release" = RS3 = 1709.
Aug 24, 2017 Place Windows Server for IT Pro
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Re: Short questions
Q10 Will MSDTC support S2D and CSV? [RobHind]: Yes, MSDTC will be supported on S2D and CSV - but still requires DHCP capable network in the Fall release.
Aug 24, 2017 Place Windows Server for IT Pro
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Re: Welcome to the Windows Server Storage AMA!
Hi, Rob Hindman joining the AMA
Aug 24, 2017 Place Windows Server for IT Pro
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