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    Pool several pools

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    1 hour ago, Christopher (Drashna) said:

    Yes, absolutely! 

    Though, I think you'd be better using a single pool for this, and using the File Placement Rules: 
    https://stablebit.com/Support/DrivePool/2.X/Manual?Section=File Placement

    But you could use the hierarchical pooling, *and* then use this on the top level pool, to keep them on specific pools. 

    Either work, but it's your call. 

    I didn't know about the file placement rules either. That is what I am looking for. Thanks.

    Pool several pools

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    I have a server that I want to set up with drivepool.that will hold TV shows and movies. I want to keep the tv shows on one set of drives and movies on another. Can I create a pool "tv shows" and another "movies". Then create a pool "media" that includes those two pools? 

    I don't want to use duplication since I can re-rip the lost media but would like to have some idea what was lost in the event of a drive failure.

    REFS format question

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    I have two pools set up on my Win Server 2016 using REFS formatted drives. I wanted to add the NFS server feature so I have more stable connections to my MAC. So I do some testing and I'm happy. When I go to set up my real NFS share I get an error. I find out that NFS and REFS don't work together. So I look at my storage pools. One is marked as a REFS drive and the other as NTFS. I don't remember doing anything to make one REFS and the other NTFS. Any idea what I did and can the REFS pool be non-destructively changed to NTFS? If so, is there a reason I shouldn't?

    LSI9211-8i Raid card

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    I purchased a server with a LSI9211-8i raid card that has several firmwares available. I plan to move my drive pool over to it. The stock firmware is either for RAID or JBOD. Do you have an opinion as to whether or not I need to reflash the firmware to access the individual drives for stable bit drive pool?

    Server 2012R2 reboots under heavy drivepool traffic

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    I'll add my two cents to this discussion. I thought that Drivepool was causing BSOD problems on my server. I found out I had two problems: a cheap Sil3132 card with bad drivers and a 3TB drive that was failing. The folks here helped me find my issue. I was a convert from using Windows drive spaces (or whatever its called). When I experienced the same issue with that I lost the entire volume and all the data on it. Drivepool is a much safer way to go. Since replacing the ESATA card and drive my setup has been rock solid, even through some power outages.

    Server 2012R2 reboots under heavy drivepool traffic

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    Thanks for the suggestion. I connected my drive enclosure via my USB3 -> esata adapter and the server booted in seconds (it runs off of an SSD), instead of minutes. I guess something with the driver in the esata card was affecting more than the BSOD. I ordered a card with the above chip set and and will test the difference between the adapter and the card. With the USB3 -> esata adapter I can transfer files on/off the pool at about 130mb/s, which is ok for my needs. I'd imagine not having to go through the additional conversion will speed things up. I'll update this post so others can learn from my experience.

    Store virtual machines in a drive pool

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    Alex, the developer actually runs his VMs from the Pool. So that should speak volumes. ......

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    And since you can use the "File Placement Rules" to control that.... you could add a SSD or two to the pool, and use the rules to ensure that's where the VMs are stored. Great for performance. 

     

     

    There is no issue with duplicating the VMs. If Real-Time Duplication is enabled (which it is by default), any write or modify commands are sent to both copies of the files at the same time, and the contents stay in sync.  

    And again, by using the file placement rules, it allows you to maintain one pool, without sacrificing the speed that you want. But that is entirely up to you.

     

    Let's take a worse case scenario and say I have an SSD and a USB2 drive in my duplicated drive pool. I use file placement rules to place my VM on the SSD. If it is duplicated, it is duplicated on the USB2 drive. Wouldn't the VM only be as fast as the slowest drive since it is being written to? Or are the writes cached?

    Store virtual machines in a drive pool

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    I am running Server 2012 R2 with vmware workstation and have a drive pool. I've always assumed it best to store my virtual machines outside the drive pool. But reading the latest blog on 2.1 a lot of time was spent discussing the benefits to virtual machines and speed. So my question is, do virtual machines run well in a drive pool? If so, do people duplicate them?

    Vmware or HyperV set up with a drive pool

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    Personally, I use ESXi on my server and run Windows Server 2012 Essentials in a VIrtual Machine.  The disks used for DrivePool are passed through to it.  The pass-through feature in ESXi is a bit different than it is in Hyper-V.  With ESXi, you have to uncheck the RdmFilter.HbaIsShared setting under Advance Settings in the Software configuration of the host.  

     

    After that, any physical disk you add to the system will be available for pass-through to a VM as a Raw Device Mapping (RDM).  This does not format the disk, and these disks cannot be part of a VM backup using the free script ghettoVCB.  Having passed through disks also prevents you from being able to take a memory snapshot of the VM.

     

     

    So you have the OS running your drive pool virtualized. I got it.

     

    When you add the drive you say it does not format the disk. Can I move an existing drive pool to the virtualized OS? In other words, if it already exists and I pass them through will the virtualized OS see the pool?

    Vmware or HyperV set up with a drive pool

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    I'm going to be replacing the server I currently have and virtualization is going to play a part. I will be running Server 2012 R2 and will either install VMWare Workstion 10 or run HyperV. I'm leaning towards HyperV since it is part of the Server OS. The virtual machines will not reside on the drive pool.

     

    I want to have a drive pool of about 8 TB for various media folders and am thinking of setting this up in the Server OS. I'd like to give access to this in various Windows/Linux/OSX virtual machines - I know I'd need VMWare to virtualize OSX. Is it best to just share the drive pool folders as network shares so the virtual machines can access the data? Is there a better way to do this? I'm in the planning stage now and am open to suggestions. I've heard about physical drive pass thru and am wondering if there is a place for that here.

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