Here some quick test results from a recently purchased Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB. The used benchmark software was ATTO v2.47. The first test was run with a queue depth of 10 and total length of 2GB In the second test smaller queue depth of 2 and length of 128MB were chosen. The results… Continue reading Benchmark Samsung SSD 840 Pro
Month: March 2014
Disk has been surprise removed
Recently my server logged multiple ID 157 events texting "Disk # has been surprise removed". Check the disk number! If it is larger than the disks that you have (minus 1, since we start counting from 0), then it is safe to ignore it. Plausible check: You receive "Disk 2 has been surprise removed"… Continue reading Disk has been surprise removed
How to disable Server Infrastructure Licensing Service
Symptoms: Critical: Your Hyper-V licensed as Essentials R2 Server shuts down weekly. You observe the log "The process C:\Windows\system32\silsvc.exe [computername] has initiated the power off of computer [computername] on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" or similar, as described here. Non-critical: You receive an error message "The SILSVC should be started automatically but it is stopped"… Continue reading How to disable Server Infrastructure Licensing Service
Essentials 2012 R2 Hyper-V Shuts Down Weekly
Despite the fact that Microsoft has given a green light to licensing Hyper-V under Server 2012 R2 Essentials, it is still a pain in the neck of getting it running smoothly. After a recent blog about installing ONLY the Hyper-V role here, I was confronted with another bug. The short story: Once a week our… Continue reading Essentials 2012 R2 Hyper-V Shuts Down Weekly
Shell Hardware Detection keeps stopping on Server 2012
Many blogs were written about this phenomenon but it took me three searches to really find the correct answer. Hopefully you landed here right by your first try 🙂 The symptoms: On the Server Manager Dashboard there is a ‘red service’ warning. The service listed is the Shell Hardware Detection service on one (or… Continue reading Shell Hardware Detection keeps stopping on Server 2012