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Storage spaces linux alternative.
As you all probably know i ve had a lot of problems with storage spaces.
The df command stands for disk free and shows available and used disk space on the linux system.
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Let s compare the pros and cons of zfs and windows storage spaces across a few different categories that would be important to an average user.
Windows storage spaces is the successor to drive extender and adds a lot of useful functionality to it.
However linux has a strong built in utility called df the df command stands for disk filesystem it is used to get a full summary of available and used disk space usage of the file system on linux system.
I m sure free storage ha doesn t exist in a turnkey solution but a man can dream.
Keeping track of disk utilization information is on system administrators and others daily to do list.
However the reason i chose windows to begin with was because of.
Currently i m running server 2012 r2 with clustered storage spaces but i d like to switch over to a linux solution.
Linux alternative to storage spaces.
Storage spaces are based on a new proprietary file system from microsoft called refs resilient file system at the time of writing there is no open source software that allows to mount this kind of file system the only option right now is to use proprietary software.
I currently run a small home media server on a windows machine.
Many of these issues are from not knowing how to correctly configure storage spaces.
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Using h parameter with df h will show the file system disk space.
Df h shows disk space in human readable format.
You can use either iwarp or roce as long as it has the windows server 2016 logo but iwarp is usually easier to set up.
Linux has a few built in utilities that help provide that information.
Specific settings need to be enabled in order to get the most out of your array.
The internal storage spaces hyper v network that will be used to replicate data and move vm s around and our curriculum network which will be used to access the vm s.
On the internet you will find plenty of tools for checking disk space utilization in linux.
Refs for linux by paragon software.
I d like to swap it to a small compute stick of some sort running a thin linux distro.
At least 10 gbe networking is required and remote direct memory access rdma is recommended.
A key part of having 4.
I m looking for something that is free.
