mbursill's questions

I have Server 2012 with one storage pool and one virtual disk. The virtual disk uses layout parity and thin provisioning. It contained 4 physical disks. One of the physical disks failed. It was pulled and larger replacement disk was added.

The server manager now lists the failed drive as "Retired". Every attempt to remove the disk results in:

Error removing physical disk: There was an error removing {179f49b7-7657-11e2-93ea-806e6f6e6963} (fileserver). One of the physical disks specified could not be removed because it is still in use.

If I check the properties of the virtual disk, it states under health: "Physical disks in use", and lists the retired drive as "Lost Communication".

The physical drives have lots of free space, and the new drive has been added to the storage pool (but not the virtual disk). The "repair virtual disk" option is grayed out.

It seems I cannot attach the virtual disk until I remove the retired drive.

How can a disk that's sitting unplugged in another room be "in use"? How do I remove the retired drive?

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 network share setup as a map drive in Win 7 x64. I want to search it via Windows 7 but I always get "no items match your search". It's as though it's not even attempting to search.

The File Server role with Windows Search Service is installed. The drive holding the network share is added to the indexing options on the server, and it indicates that indexing is complete.

From what I understand, the search query should be sent to the server (where the content is indexed), executed, and the results returned.

Failed solutions:

Source: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/afb904c1-1c61-4aae-b6b1-5cf525b9f8de/

• create a symbolic link to the UNC. I find that to be an extreme fix to what should be a simple problem.

• enable "Always Available Offline" for the UNC. In a corporate setting it's not acceptable to duplicate all server content locally, nor is it feasible with many TB's of server storage.

• install the "Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Files on Microsoft Networks" http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?DisplayLang=en&FamilyID=f7e981d9-5a3b-4872-a07e-220761e27283 It allows a UNC path to be entered into the indexing options on the client and then the index built locally. However, the add-on is not for Windows 7 and is not supported for x64.

Update:

• The setup includes two clients (Both fully updated Win7 x64), one file server, no domain. Just to make it easy (security isn't an issue in this case), anonymous access is used. I really doubt it's a permissions problem as I can access, modify, and create content on the mapped drive. I just can't search it.

• Searching on the server ALWAYS works. The share in question has lot of content: 2.17TB with 274,633 Files, however, the folder(s) I wish to search has only 11,503 files (54.3GB)

• Searching on one of the two clients works most of the time. It appears to be somewhat unreliable. Some days it works, others it does not. Searching on the second client has never worked.

• The index has been rebuilt on the server as well as both clients.

Update 2:

• From the client, if I highlight all files in the share, go to properties, and let Win 7 count the files, then proceed to do a search after the counting is complete, it works. I'm not sure why that worked (something to do with rebuilding the index, properly this time?). I have a feeling that as the fileserver content changes it wont stay working. Any thoughts?

A friend has a site developed in ColdFusion with MySQL and is looking for better cost-effective hosting as the traffic scales up rapidly. Azure comes to mind.

I haven't used Azure myself, however, I believe it is possible to setup and interact with the web-server via RDP into a hosted Virtual Machine?

I am curious if ColdFusion can be installed in the hosted Azure VM. Also, would the site have to be tweaked to run on Azure SQL, or could it continue to use MySQL?

Thanks.

On my client I am attempting to run:

git clone gitosis@DevServer:gitosis-admin.git

I get a warning:

The authenticity of host '10.1.1.13 (10.1.1.13)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is a2:c3:fd:d7:f7:75:df:dd:49:64:ce:64:cc:98:e6:2c. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

It appears to be picking up the public key from:

/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub

I want it to use the key located in:

/srv/gitosis/.ssh/authorized_keys

How do I get my server to hand out the correct public key?