Understanding Virtual Disks in iSCSI Target Server
First published on TECHNET on Dec 04, 2013 ContextIn Windows Server 2012 R2, iSCSI Target Server made significant improvements in its persistence layer by providing larger, resilient, dynamically-growing SCSI Logical Units (LUs) that are based on the VHDX format.
Updating Firmware for Disk Drives in Windows Server 2016 (TP4)
First published on TECHNET on Jan 25, 2016 Updating the firmware for disks has historically been a cumbersome task with a potential for downtime, which is why we're making improvements to Storage Spaces and Windows Server 2016 to enable you to more easily update disk firmware prior to placing a server in production.New white paper providing guidance for sizing NTFS volumes
First published on TECHNET on Feb 22, 2011 IntroductionToday, Microsoft released a new white paper, available here, discussing best practices and guidance for sizing NTFS volumes and some details on CHKDSK execution times on Windows Server 2008 R2.Understanding the error message “There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation” when you create a volume
First published on TECHNET on May 11, 2007 Shrinking volumes is a cool feature of Windows Vista, but we’re starting to see an interesting side effect—the inability to create a new partition in the newly created unallocated space.
