I am having problems with whs seeing the raid5 array i set up. Combining windows software raid with raid 5 with cheap consumer sata. Recover data off of a windows home server failing drive. Im using the software raid5 and it seems to be working perfectly. I am new to raid, so please forgive this newbie question. Find answers to using software raid disk mirror on windows small business server 2011 essentials from the expert community at experts exchange. I decided to give drive bender for whs a try, and as a home user seems like it has a number of advantages over any form of raid. Jetzt habe ich samtliche festplatten aus meinem homeserver 4 x 1,5 tb. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number.
Theyre developing a product called standards which will be software raid including hybrids like synology, qnap etc. Is it really worth considering as an option though. Furthermore, when the connector software is removed from an old pc. Software raid 5 whs 2011 windows home server is the only consumer level operating system to offer a software implementation of raid 5. One feature that seemed really great was the storage pooling, and that feature was greatly missed when i moved to whs 2011 a few years ago. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. Microsoft windows home server 2011 fortschritt, ruckschritt. Server software, even without support included, are very expensive. Discussion in windows server, hyperv virtualization. Windows home server 2011 has now arrived, and with it a bevy of new.
This process was as easy as transferring folders in windows and orders of magnitude easier than recovering a raid array drive. I installed whs2011 on my dell pe2950 which has the perc6i raid controller. The new connector provides direct access to the shared. Greens are fine for archiving though in my experience. Asus ts mini windows home server whs basic configuration. At the end of the day, my friends are also storing alot of the same content or i can rerip the data from dvd.
Discussion in servers and enterprise solutions started by minstadave, apr 26, 2017. Microsoft has a great product page where you can try out the whs 2011 dashboard online and gather a little more information about the features, but here is a short list of some great new or improved features over the previous version improved client connector software this is the software that resides on each computer in your home. There is one significant gotcha to be aware of if you use raid on an hp microserver running windows home server. Windows home server is considered a client software solution and would not be supported option for the enterprise level perc 6i controller. If you want better performing software raid thats faster and, in my. This video shows how to mirror a drive in windows home server 2011. Bei software raid installiert man einfach linux oder windows neu fertig. Before you install windows home server 2011, rtfm seriously im about to install the final release of windows home server 2011. Whs 2011s client software can now be installed directly via a browser, and both windows and mac systems are supported the existing 10 user limit remains in place. Im using the software raid 5 and it seems to be working perfectly.
Apr 14, 2011 before you install windows home server 2011, rtfm seriously im about to install the final release of windows home server 2011. Nas guidance for replacing my whs2011 centric setup. Flexraid provides the cleanest integration into whs 2011 out of all solutions out there. I prefer drive bender, which seems to handle a hodgepodge of. I currently have a boot drive as the ocx vertex 4 512gb, and two seagate 3tb hard drives that id like to set up as mirrored drives raid 1. I also have two 2tb wd greens which are spanned via whs 2011 software raid as a backup set to the 4xwd black 1tb drives and have never exhibited an issue. My new setup using whs 2011 in the d400 4 internal bays will be. Either complete the installation process, or, restart the computer and try to connect again. You can do a software mirror of a boot volume using windows software raid, but it wont clone the bootloader right without a lot of extra work.
In this video we will use disk management in server manager to initialize and format 3tb hdds in windows home server 2011. My primary server is an ex475 mss but were i to build a diy whs for production use it would definitely have raid1 for the system drive and only the system drive just as insurance against the pita of a server recovery. The maximum capacity i will see with the big whs is 80tb, only about 4tb greater than today. If you have one of these large format drives you can add it internally. I also have two cloud services i use in dropbox and idrive. We will also create a mirrored array with two 3tb hdds in a sans digital 4. The article looks at the different raid levels, starting with jbob and finishing with raid 5 and explaining which is best for different scenarios. Discussion in sth suggestions and updates started by bonzo, feb 5, 2015. A new feature of windows home server 2011 is that users can create a backup of the client pcs backup database.
I have a whs 2011 machine which i built about 6 years ago. Oct 20, 2011 my new setup using whs 2011 in the d400 4 internal bays will be. Thinking of upgrading my 100tb self built whs 2011 media. Find answers to using software raid disk mirror on windows small business server 2011 essentials from the expert community at experts exchange experts exchange. May, 2017 in case you go a few raid 1 setups, think also about the fact that it is not so easy to make from 3x raid 1, 1x raid 6. All files i wish to store on a raid 5 array comprising of three disks of 2tb. Whs 2011 thinks there is an installation in progress butch. Then we will create mirrored arrays raid1 in disk management. Boot disk lost, how to recover files from whs 2011 raid1. Seeing how whs is based on server 2003, is there a way to disable the jbod setup and enable software raid 1 or raid 5 in disk management. I have windows home server 2011 automatically backing up my pc. Then i was going to use flexraid to software raid the 3 volumes. Is raid 5 compatible or able to run on windows home server 2011.
Feb 10, 2011 only four standard sata drives and software mirroring in whs 2011 i. Connected to the controller via a sas to sata sff8087 cable are 3x3tb hitachi hds5c3030ala630 which is the 5400ish coolspin drive. Windows home server 2011 and raid 5 windows server. As raid partition manager, aomei partition assistant server edition is. Normally, i would just insert the dvd and follow the prompts. Windows home server 2011 internal 3tb hard drive support. Things to consider before installing, or upgrading to. What are the advantagesdisadvantages of doing the mirroring using windows vs doing it using the intel rst features. Windows home server 2011 end of mainstream support the.
As far as not having drive extender in whs 2011, i really dont see what the big deal is. Combining windows software raid with raid 5 with cheap consumer sata drives is a planned disaster. Just needed to connect to the ip address of the server rather than the server name when installing the connect software. If so are there specifications in which need to be met to be able to run raid 5, and what are they.
Using software raid disk mirror on windows small business. Hi, i just bought a maximus v formula and im running it with the i7 3770k. The software is ok, interface is not so nice and it can be. Im not familiar with software raid but if a hardware raid controller fails, you lose your data. For a small server like what whs is about home and small offices, is an insult, as you have several windows licences already on the client machines, and an affordable server solution is likely to keep you with windows for the clients. I tend to recommend sas, re4, blacks, forget it in that order to my clients.
I have a whs 2011 machine running off a shuttle slimpc with a 320gb boot drive and a 1tb data drive. It comes up with a 100mb drive in disk manager in whs 2011. Using software raid 1 is pretty much guaranteed to be slower than any form of hardware raid. How to create mirrored volume in windows vista20032008201120127. Having replaced the original os with whs 2011 i never even bothered to boot up the original os there are no utilities that might have come with the hp system. It will lock up the highpoint management software, and speaking of management software, it reports the array is 100% healthy and all drives are oknormal. Thank you for reading this and hopefully giving me some insight to the world of nas and if that is even my best route. To facilitate sharing and streaming, whs 2011 supports dlna 1. The relevant specifications are that my 500gb system drive is a software. One of the advantages of windows home server is that pulling whs drives. Oct 20, 2011 i have just installed whs 2011 on my lenovo d400 as well and was thinking of using the software raid5 as well. Windows home server 2011 drive mirror video edition. You may try a client driver windows 7 to match the 2011 whs since. Lifecycle page youve linked us to is a real mess it doesnt even contain the same lifecycle information for whs 2011 as you have mentioned within this blog post, and so its hard to get any real info from there.
My whs 2011 os disk got corrupted and it wont boot. Unraid is used for bulk storage that can survive a single disk failure, and retain a big chunk of data if multiple discs fail. Whs 2011 changing server hardware using bare metal. This video also shows you how to mirror drives in whs 2011. Which raid level for whs2011 ms windows home server. Install whs 2011 64 bit on 3tb raid 1 failing super user. Theoretisch sollte es moglich sein, ein externes raidsystem via usb anzuschlie. I assume you are reading info from the software with the areca controller. It is likely some configuration or incompatibility situation with the 3 tb drives. This software was formerly known as windows server code name vail. Thinking of upgrading my 100tb self built whs 2011 media server for a new ms server offering.
Windows home server 2011 drive mirror video edition movies. The maximum capacity i will see with the big whs is. In case you go a few raid1 setups, think also about the fact that it is not so easy to make from 3x raid 1, 1x raid 6. Seeing how whs is based on server 2003, is there a way to disable the jbod setup and enable software raid1 or raid5 in disk management. Also tried it for a short period during the whs beta with no problems. How is whs 2011 handling backups of a mirrored drive raid1. From a software side, the big additions have been microsoft windows server 2008 r2 sp1 and now new windows home server 2011 and windows small business server 2011 essentials virtual machines. Windows home server 2011 adding 3tb drives with the. Which raid level for whs2011 choosing the right raid level for your nas box is the title of an article on which is the ideal read for those of you thinking of using raid with whs2011. This means that the backup of a system can be further saved to the home server. I have access to files on the server from the pc but the dashboard has not been installed for back ups. Also, windows raid is considered the worst mainstream raid around.
Storage spaces, or any other software raid management so i can easily upgrade. Software raid 5 offers relatively poor performance. Whs 2011 changing server hardware using bare metal restore. Question on installing win server 2016 on raid 1 volume. Converting an existing single drive to a raid volume is a lot more complicated than setting it up from the outset. How to configure backup options in windows home server 2011. But ive no experience with whs 2011 nor the original whs whatsoever. If you are trying to install the client connector for windows home server 2011 and. I just use software raid 1 for the boot drive and back everything up to a single 2 tb ext usb drive. Feb 10, 2011 this video shows how to mirror a drive in windows home server 2011. Sep 14, 20 in this video we will use disk management in server manager to initialize and format 3tb hdds in windows home server 2011. I have a lot of services running on a rather tidy and small nuc. Support in the sense that theres a connector which will install on a mac, yes. My primary server is an ex475 mss but were i to build a diy whs for production use it would definitely have raid 1 for the system drive and only the system drive just as insurance against the pita of a server recovery.
If you want better performing software raid thats faster and, in my notsohumble opinion, more reliable, drive bender or stablebit is the way to go. I would have used hardware raid but i didnt see that option in my mobo. I have upgraded my desktop and now have a spare parts. Oct 14, 2011 there is one significant gotcha to be aware of if you use raid on an hp microserver running windows home server. Whs with hp proliant microserver n40l thomas maurer. It has been marginalized to mirror plex library plex server on another machine and data services. Though drive extender didnt create hardware redundancy as such nor raid 1. If you insist on raid, use a good hardware raid controller. Oct 11, 2011 hello, ive got a supermicro x7spah w 4gb mem and a highpoint 2680 sassata controller. Whs 2011 thinks there is an installation in progress. In addition, if you have an issue with an array its not as easy to recover as microsoft might like you to think. Now, the process will vary a bit depending on your software raid configuration.
Windows home server 2011 mainstream support ended in the second quarter of 2016. I tend to recommend sas, re4, blacks, forget it in that order to. On their blog the flexraid team have written why its software is ideal as a drive pool and raid solution for whs 2011. Preconfigure software based raid1 array prior to installing whs 2011 using diskpart. Good point on the windows 7 x64 server 2008 x64 windows home server 2011 compatible. Solution method needed to join sever 2016 essentials to sbs 2011 standard domain as replica dc for migration to server 2016 essentials. Does anyone know if whs2011 will work with a hardware raid controller like the perc 6i or is it strictly usable with the slow software raid built into whs2011. Do you know for a fact that your system bios or sata controller.
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