Technical Articles From Argon Systems

How to deploy S2D on a 4-node cluster. Perform each step in preparation to manage and support the core cluster in a production environment. Part 1 of 4 … Continue Reading

Clear out old storage pools, virtual disks and meta data left behind on hard drives on Storage Spaces Direct infrastructures … Continue Reading

How to manage Windows Servers using Ansible. Deploy a Ansible controlling node on CentOS 7, and configure Windows Server 2016 for management. Create Ansible playbook examples with custom Powershell Ansible modules … Continue Reading

Configuring Storage Spaces Direct on a 4-node cluster. Build the storage pool and tiers automatically. Scan all nodes in the system, and load every disk into a pool with the status CanPool equal to True, then create both Mirror and … Continue Reading

How to setup Windows Server Core with Storage Spaces Direct … Continue Reading

How to expand a VHD or VHDx Virtual Hard Drive of Windows Cluster Services hosts … Continue Reading

Testing guidelines for S2D cluster network and storage components in a common configuration. Instructions on health monitoring included. Part 2 of 4 … Continue Reading

Deploying S2D on a 4-node cluster. QoS & Hyper-V virtual adaptors. Switch Enabled Teaming virtual switch & SMB Multipath infrastructure. Part 3 of 4 … Continue Reading

Clusters with an even number of members are vulnerable to “Split Brain”. The best solution for this is to create a disk or share quorum member … Continue Reading

How to configure a Storage Spaces Direct cluster and a hyper-converged Hyper-V on a virtual lab with four storage VMs. The Virtual Lab created becomes a base infrastructure to build into a complete hybrid cloud environment. In this KB article, … Continue Reading

How to monitor Storage Spaces Direct pool capacity using the provided PowerShell script … Continue Reading

How to create Multiple Virtual Disks (Spaces) on a single Windows Storage Pool 2012r2 to give the best performance and reliability … Continue Reading

Step by step instructions to build a Windows Storage Spaces Direct virtual lab on PC. PowerShell script to automate the process … Continue Reading

How to create a Two-Node Windows Cluster for storage servers and host Hyper-V VMs … Continue Reading

How to create a Storage Pool for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Storage Spaces Standard … Continue Reading

System Error 1240 Has Occurred. The Account is Not Authorized to Login from This Station attempting to mount a client to an SMB network share … Continue Reading

Standard lab setup to test Storage Spaces Direct in a hyperconverged environment … Continue Reading

Each cluster member server requires a set of Windows Roles and Features to be installed and configured. NoteThese prerequisites must be installed on every cluster node. Open a PowerShell window and run the following commands on all nodes. At the … Continue Reading

Multipath IO is a software feature that resolves the disk data paths and presents a single path to the system.  When doing the command GET-PHYSICALDISKS and MPIO is installed and functioning, then the physical disks should be displayed correctly regardless … Continue Reading

How to fix the 0x80070569 error often found while on a Hyper-V computer … Continue Reading

How to create a bootable USB drive as a Windows Server 2016 installation disc … Continue Reading

How to join a Storage Spaces cluster to a Windows Domain and rename the nodes … Continue Reading

Supermicro IPMI has the ability to use AD to authenticate users without having to add them the IPMI system on each server. Instead of authenticating against the internal IPMI database, it can query AD. Users are identified by a specific … Continue Reading

How to create a Scale-out File System for a Windows Cluster … Continue Reading

This article will show a step-by-step procedure on how to add Storage Spaces storage and disks as a Windows Cluster Resource on Windows Server 2012r2 and 2016 We will use the Failover Cluster Manager instead of PowerShell for the next … Continue Reading

How to find if your hardware has been certified by Microsoft … Continue Reading

This article covers necessary network configuration to complete the installation of a Windows clustering environment … Continue Reading

How to correct the network binding created by the DHCP configuration wizard … Continue Reading

How to create SMB shares on the Windows Scale-Out File Server … Continue Reading

How to create a Windows Cluster for domain joined systems … Continue Reading