Oct 20, 2011 i recently set up a bootable raid 5 array on a dell 110 server that ran windows small business server 2011 something very, very similar to whs 2011. If possible, it is best if one is able to remove the drive from the storage pool, however if there is a massive hardware failure or the drive dropped from the whs pool, one may need to remove the drive without going through the formal process. Feb 02, 2011 a short screen capture demonstration with voiceover commentary about configuring windows software raid volumes with windows sbs 2011 essentials. Windows home server 2011, code named vail, is a home server operating system by microsoft designed for small office home offices and homes with multiple connected pcs to offer protected file storage, file sharing, automated pc backup, remote access, and remote control of pc desktops. The demise of the real windows home server line in 2011 left a hole in microsofts range, one that windows server essentials could never quite fill with its small business remit, at a time when. Sbs 2011 essentials learning bites setting up raid.
What i did know is that i could install a different os and not effect the data as the array as it is stored on the card not in the os. Windows home server, codenamed quattro, is a home server operating system from microsoft. Its like a textbook example of a perfect storm of bad storage decisions coming together. Windows 10 has made it simple to set up raid by building on the good work of windows 8 and storage spaces, a software application built into windows that takes care of configuring raid drives for you. Skip to the end for the raid 10 numbers and results. Windows home server 2011 and small business server 2011 using gpt and raid 5 or 6. Is there a way to add a new drive to the windows software. Also, windows raid is considered the worst mainstream raid around. If you are looking to set up windows software raid check out our. Combining windows software raid with raid 5 with cheap consumer sata drives is a planned disaster. Their website only mentions sas with the 3008 but i did inquire with sms tech support with regards to sata support and was informed it is supported and that 2 logical drives can be created i generally build 1 or 2 raid 10 drives of 4 disks each.
Announced on 7 january 2007, at the consumer electronics show by bill gates, windows home server is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected pcs to offer file sharing, automated backups, and remote access. With the release of windows 8 and server 2012, microsoft took the wraps off of two technologies that work in conjunction to usher in a new era of software raid. Windows home server is a home server operating system from microsoft. It is paired with the windows home server consoleclient software. Preconfigure software based raid1 array prior to installing whs 2011 using.
Home server 2011 and windows 10 microsoft community. Differences between hardware raid, hbas, and software raid. With this latest version of whs, i now have sharepoint foundation free limited version of sharepoint running for the family to. I logged onto my whs 2011 earlier and ran the updates. As raid partition manager, partition assistant can make resizemove raid disk process easily and compatible with windows server 2000, 2003, 2008, windows home server 2011, windows small business server 2003, 2008, 2011 and windows 7, vista, xp, 2000 professional all editions, 32bit and 64bit. Windows home server 2011, the next version of this operating system, was. Windows home server alternatives and similar software. Learn more get answers from your peers along with millions of it pros who visit spiceworks.
With this latest version of whs, i now have sharepoint foundation free limited version of sharepoint running for the family to share pictures, files, calendar events and collaboration. So, i was looking, and couldnt find any information on peoples experience, or results of any kind of raid 10 adventure on windows, so, decided id do it myself. Home servers are becoming more common and it is very easy for a newbie to get lost while finding the best home server software. Some versions of windows, such as windows server 2012 as well as mac os x. In this video we will use disk management in server manager to initialize and format 3tb hdds in windows home server 2011.
May 25, 2011 windows home server 2011 has now arrived, and with it a bevy of new featuresand one key feature of the older version removed. The software raid is configured directly on your computers host server cpu, and even though the speed of processing is slower than in the case of hardware raid, but it is more costefficient. Fortunately, it is easy to build a software raid 5 in windows 8. Here is a raid 10 implementation that will look a lot like windows home server v1 in terms of redundancy versus capacity tradeoffs, but will be quite a bit faster. Create a virtual machine with a bunch of virtual drives. Normally, i would just insert the dvd and follow the prompts. However, the windows small business server 2011 is more suited for businesses small businesses rather than the home version. Before you install windows home server 2011, rtfm seriously. Windows home server whs is meant for your family needs or for use in a home or small office. By manuel masiero, achim roos 06 october 2011 we got our hands on four sas 6 gbs raid controllers from adaptec, areca, highpoint, and lsi and ran them through raid 0, 5, 6, and 10 workloads to. Hope, there is some sort of gui to check the state of the raid. If you insist on raid, use a good hardware raid controller.
I decided to try out windows home server 2011 as the operating system. Software raid 5 offers relatively poor performance. Support in the sense that theres a connector which will install on a mac, yes. Windows home server 2011 adding 3tb drives with the. Wanting to transition my server to more of an htpc role, i decided to install windows 7 on it yesterday. I dont believe this is possible with windows software raid but you could take the guesswork out of it with a little norisk experimentation. The reason i mention this is that i had 2 of the 3tb drives set up in raid 1 before buying the additional 2 3tb drives and it would not let me install windows 10 on the raid 1 drives as they were dynamic. The idea of drive extender for windows home server is you can have as. May 30, 2017 up until windows 8, software raid in windows was a mess.
Windows home server 2011 and small business server 2011 using gpt and raid 10. The software to perform the raidfunctionality and control the drives can either. Now that i can properly encrypt everything im happy having windows home server 2011 take care of managing my backups automatically. The following guide describes how to manually setup a drive mirroring raid1 under windows server legacy.
Track users it needs, easily, and with only the features you need. This video shows how to mirror a drive in windows home server 2011. The reason i mention this is that i had 2 of the 3tb drives set up in raid 1 before buying the additional 2 3tb drives and it would not let me. Feb 07, 2011 windows home server 2011 aka vail, is a home server operating system designed for families and small businesses optionally to securely organize and share photos, music, video, documents, etc. This video also shows you how to mirror drives in whs 2011. As you have not yet done your whs installation, i would recommend that you consider a linux alternative. The author is terry walsh, title is windows home server versus windows home server 2011 is it worth upgrading posted on april 7th, 2011. Windows home server 2011 and raid 5 windows server spiceworks. If i were to remove a mirror during a software raid 1 resync on windows server 2012 standard would it stop the resync and let one drive continue as normal, or would it break windows and crash the. Raid level 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10 advantage, disadvantage, use. As i am running windows 10, i plan to do this using storage spaces.
The software giant recommends bringing in a new device running windows server standard or windows server essentials and migrating your roles, features and data to the new appliance, he wrote in. Software raid 10 in windows 10 servers and nas linus. Software raid 10 in windows works about as expected, in my experience. A home server on the other hand takes care of file serving, downloading, web serving needs, and more. In order to manage every aspect of your raid, you will need to use specialized software that allows dynamic disk management and also partition management. Even if you werent, windows 10 is far cheaper than legal editions of windows server especially if you buy an oem version. It allows you to centralize your important documents and digital media files on one box and provides easy access from other machines on your network. Windows home server 2011 creating a drive mirror youtube. Windows home server 2011 drive mirror video edition movies. Migrated the server from windows home server 2011 to win 10 pro, because of the supportend of the product. Windows home server 2011 and raid 5 windows server. This software was formerly known as windows server code name vail. Using software raid disk mirror on windows small business.
You might want to grab your favorite beverage and raid the cookie jar before you start this process. This is a segment where without a very solid basic understanding of what the technologies involved are, a user can make a purchasing decision detrimental to their machines ultimate. Yeah im one of the nerds that used and still does windows home server 2011. Create a raid 5 array and then see what happens if you try to add another drive. The first step, of course, is to physically remove the offending disk from the windows home server. Windows requires two partitions when in mbr mode efi requires 3, which i wont go into. Windows 7 has arbitrary restrictions on the available raid levels, and it was impossible to create a level 5 raid without windows server. So you can encrypt all your hard drives which is the minimum requirement for me when doing full computer backups. Nov 29, 2010 the idea of drive extender for windows home server is you can have as many hard drives as you want and they all group together into the same pool of storage. Mar 27, 2017 at this point we can create our raid1 partitions.
We have described what a htpc is and what it is used for. Sms current h11sslnc offers the lsi3008 raid chip that supports up to 8 drives for your os raid. It seems that the documentation here is incorrect online and is a snapshot of our first beta documentation. Hp microserver gen10 plus tower server for business, intel xeon e2224 3. In addition, home computers running earlier versions of microsoft windows, and computers running apple macos 10.
I also have a 1tb drive to potentially install windows 10 on. Windows home server 2011, code named vail, is a home server operating system by microsoft designed for small officehome offices and homes with multiple connected pcs to offer protected file storage, file sharing, automated pc backup, remote access, and remote control of pc desktops. It was announced on 7 january 2007 at the consumer electronics show by bill gates, released to manufacturing on 16 july 2007 and officially released on 4 november 2007. Windows home server 2011 has a built in drive mirror feature that will allow you to create a. Jul 18, 2016 windows software raid is very different. This is similar to a raid setup but drive extender had a few cards up its sleeve that made it invaluable for a nas appliance.
Besides, windows 10 is microsofts vision for the future, for better or worse. I plan on switching to 256gb ssd and 750gb hdd for storage, but in the meantime i want something to increase performance. Im looking into increasing performance via software raid because my 16gb cache ssd ran out of write cycles. Begin by going to start control panel system and security administrative tools create and format hard disk partitions, right click on disk 0 and then select convert to dynamic disk. I guess its time to get a hardward raid instead of software raid. Microsofts windows home server vail platform has had a rough development. Windows home server codenamed quattro, q, and vail is a home server operating system from microsoft. Amahi is the solution for making home networking simple and easy to use. How to create a zfs file system on ubuntu with 3 drives raid 5 equiv duration. The servers storage controller was set by default to not have raid enabled.
Find answers to using software raid disk mirror on windows small business server 2011 essentials from the expert community at experts exchange. May 27, 2011 microsoft also made bitlocker available to home server users now. How to use windows 10 as a home server hometech howto. Apr 14, 2011 before you install windows home server 2011, rtfm seriously im about to install the final release of windows home server 2011. You can install the server software either manually or unattended. Im just wondering if windows software raid1 implementation will increase read performance or not. Lets start by looking at why whs 2011 is a good fit for your home. As raid partition manager, partition assistant can make resizemove raid disk process easily and compatible with windows server 2000, 2003, 2008, windows home server 2011, windows small business server 2003, 2008, 2011 and windows 7, vista, xp. How to setup raid 5 windows home server super user. First of all, you might have been eligible for the free upgrade.