topic Re: Drive mirroring with a Nimble volume? in Array Setup and Networking

Drive mirroring with a Nimble volume?

mfeightner34 — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:30:44 GMT

Does anyone know if it's at all possible to use a Nimble volume to mirror an existing Windows drive, specifically on 2008 R2?

Even if I create a Nimble volume with 8192 block size, Windows complains about wrong block size and it still shows up on the 2008R2 server as 4096.

Thanks,

MattF

Re: Drive mirroring with a Nimble volume?

Nick_Dyer — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:30:03 GMT

Hi Matt. That sounds like you're not setting the NTFS Allocation Unit Size correctly more than anything else?

Re: Drive mirroring with a Nimble volume?

pbitpro96 — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:35:32 GMT

I agree with Nick there.

Online the Nimble disk, format it with 8K allocation, then add it as a mirror to the original windows disk and let it sync up. It sounds like you might be just skipping a step.

I don't think you need Dynamic disks for this unless you are doing something more...

Re: Drive mirroring with a Nimble volume?

mfeightner34 — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:34:27 GMT

We ended up not going this route anyway, so not sure what the problem was, but thank you Nick and Paul for your replies. I appreciate your feedback and guidance.