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DKCE LIVE — 8.10.2
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  • 8.10.1
  • 8.10.0
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  • 8.9.1
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  • 8.8.1
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SIOS TECHNOLOGY CORP.
  • DKCE LIVE — 8.10.2
    • DKCE LIVE — 10.0
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.11.0
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.10.2
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.10.1
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.10.0
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.9.2
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.9.1
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.9.0
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.8.2
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.8.1
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.8.0
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.7.2
GrabGrab
GrabGrab
  • SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition
  • DataKeeper Cluster Edition Release Notes
    • DKCE Support Matrix
    • DataKeeper Cluster Edition Quick Start Guide
    • DataKeeper Cluster Edition in a Cloud Environment
      • Deploying DataKeeper Cluster Edition in AWS
        • Best Practices
        • Recommended Instance Types
        • Manual Deployment of a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance
        • AWS Cross Region Support
      • Deploying DataKeeper Cluster Edition in Azure
        • ReadOnly Host Caching
      • How to cluster SAP ASCS and ERS on Windows in AWS using WSFC with SIOS DataKeeper
      • Configure a File Server Cluster in Azure Spanning Multiple Availability Zones(AZ)
        • Deploy an Active Directory Domain Controller in Azure
        • Deploying a File Server Failover Cluster Instance using the Azure Portal
        • Install DataKeeper
    • Step by Step SQL Server 2019 FCI in OCI
      • Create the VCN and Subnets
      • Provision the VMs
      • Add the Secondary IP Addresses
      • Create the Domain
      • Join SQL1 and SQL2 to the Domain
      • Prepare the Storage
      • Configure Failover Clustering Feature
      • Creating the SQL Server FCI
      • Summary
    • DataKeeper Cluster Edition Installation Guide
      • Installation
        • Core Software
        • Installing Core
        • Third Party Product Files
        • Application Directory Anomaly
        • Localized Language Supplement
        • Silent Installation
        • Removing a Clustered DataKeeper Volume
      • About DataKeeper Licensing
        • How to Obtain a License
        • How to Install a License
      • Uninstalling SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition
      • Upgrading SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition
    • DataKeeper Cluster Edition Technical Documentation
      • User Interface
      • Components
        • DataKeeper Service Log On ID and Password Selection
        • Understanding Replication
          • SIOS DataKeeper Intent Log
          • Relocation of Intent Log
          • Resynchronization
          • Synchronous and Asynchronous Mirroring
          • Read and Write Operations
          • Volume Considerations
          • Specifying Network Cards for Mirroring
          • Performance Monitor Counters
        • Configuration
          • Sector Size
          • Network Bandwidth
          • Network Adapter Settings
          • Firewall Configurations
          • High-Speed Storage Best Practices
          • Configuration of Data Replication From a Cluster Node to External DR Site
          • Performance Tuning
          • Disable “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives”
          • How to add a newly-created volume to DataKeeper
          • WAN Considerations
            • Initial Synchronization of Data Across the LAN or WAN
            • Compression
            • Bandwidth Throttle
        • Administration
          • Primary Server Shutdown
          • Secondary Server Failures
          • Extensive Write Considerations
          • CHKDSK Considerations
          • CLEANUPMIRROR
          • DKHEALTHCHECK
          • DKSUPPORT
          • Event Log Considerations
          • Using Disk Management
          • Registry Entries
        • Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper
          • Mirror State Definitions
          • Using the -proxy option with EMCMD
          • BREAKMIRROR
          • CHANGEMIRRORENDPOINTS
          • CHANGEMIRRORTYPE
          • CLEARBLOCKTARGET
          • CLEARSNAPSHOTLOCATION
          • CLEARSWITCHOVER
          • CONTINUEMIRROR
          • CREATEJOB
          • CREATEMIRROR
          • DELETEJOB
          • DELETELOCALMIRRORONLY
          • DELETEMIRROR
          • DROPSNAPSHOT
          • GETBLOCKTARGET
          • GETCOMPLETEVOLUMELIST
          • GETCONFIGURATION
          • GETEXTENDEDVOLUMEINFO
          • GETJOBINFO
          • GETJOBINFOFORVOL
          • GETMIRRORTYPE
          • GETMIRRORVOLINFO
          • GETREMOTEBITMAP
          • GETRESYNCSTATUS
          • GETSERVICEINFO
          • GETSNAPSHOTLOCATION
          • GETSOURCEMIRROREDVOLUMES
          • GETTARGETMIRROREDVOLUMES
          • GETVOLUMEDRVSTATE
          • GETVOLUMEINFO
          • ISBREAKUSERREQUESTED
          • ISPOTENTIALMIRRORVOL
          • LOCKVOLUME
          • MERGETARGETBITMAP
          • PAUSEMIRROR
          • PREPARETOBECOMETARGET
          • READREGISTRY
          • REGISTERCLUSTERVOLUME
          • RESTARTVOLUMEPIPE
          • RESYNCMIRROR
          • SETBLOCKTARGET
          • SETCONFIGURATION
          • SETSNAPSHOTLOCATION
          • STOPSERVICE
          • SWITCHOVERVOLUME
          • TAKESNAPSHOT
          • UNLOCKVOLUME
          • UPDATECLUSTERTARGET STATEPROPERTIES
          • UPDATEJOB
          • UPDATEVOLUMEINFO
        • Using DKPwrShell with SIOS DataKeeper
          • New-DataKeeperMirror
          • New-DataKeeperJob
          • Remove-DataKeeperMirror
          • Remove-DataKeeperJob
          • Add-DataKeeperJobPair
          • Get-DataKeeperVolumeInfo
        • User Guide
          • Getting Started
            • Disk-to-Disk
            • One-to-One
            • One-to-Many (Multiple Targets)
            • Many-to-One
            • N-Shared-Disk Replicated to One
            • N-Shared-Disk Replicated to N-Shared-Disk
            • N-Shared-Disk Replicated to Multiple N-Shared-Disk Targets
            • Setting Up SIOS DataKeeper
            • Connecting to a Server
            • Disconnecting from a Server
            • Creating a Job
          • Configuring Mirrors
            • Creating a Mirror
            • Creating Mirrors With Shared Volumes
            • Safe Creation of a Shared-Storage Volume Resource
            • Creating Mirrors With Multiple Targets
            • Switchover and Failover with Multiple Targets
          • Working With Jobs
            • Jobs
            • Renaming a Job
            • Deleting a Job
            • Reassigning a Job
            • Switching Over a Mirror
          • Working With Mirrors
            • Managing Mirrors
            • Pause and Unlock
            • Continue and Lock
            • Partial Resync
            • Break
            • Resync
            • Deleting a Mirror
            • Replacing a Target
            • DataKeeper Volume Resize
            • Mirror Properties
            • Changing the Compression Level of an Existing Mirror
          • How to Replace A DKCE Node
          • Working With Shared Volumes
            • Managing Shared Volumes
            • Adding a Shared System
            • Removing a Shared System
          • Using Microsoft iSCSI Target With DataKeeper on Windows 2012
            • Installation of the iSCSI Target
            • Mirror Creation and Cluster Configuration
            • Creation of iSCSI Virtual Disks
            • Setup of iSCSI Initiator on Windows 2012
          • DataKeeper Notification Icon
          • DataKeeper Intent Log files on AWS Ephemeral Storage
          • DataKeeper Target Snapshot
            • Using SIOS DataKeeper Standard Edition To Provide Disaster Recovery For Hyper-V Virtual Machines
            • Clustering
              • Add a Node to the Cluster
              • Running chkdsk on Cluster Volumes during Cluster Volume Online
              • Creating a DataKeeper Volume Resource in WSFC
                • Manual Creation of a Mirror in WSFC
              • DataKeeper Volume Resource Health Check
              • DataKeeper Volume Resource Private Properties
              • Evicting a Node from a Cluster
              • Extending a Clustered DataKeeper Volume to a Node Outside the Cluster
              • Extending a Single SQL Server Node to a Cluster
              • Extending a Traditional 2-Node WSFC Cluster to a Third Node via DataKeeper
              • Extending a Traditional 2-Node WSFC SQL Server Cluster to a Third Node via DataKeeper
              • Extending a Traditional 2-Node Cluster to a Shared-Replicated Configuration
              • Using DataKeeper Cluster Edition to Enable Multi-Site Hyper-V Clusters
              • Split-Brain Issue and Recovery
              • Switchover in an N-Shared x N-Shared Configuration
              • Installing and Using DataKeeper Cluster Edition on Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 Core Platforms
              • Non-mirrored Volume Resource
              • Using DKCE to Enable Multi-Site File Share Resources with Windows Server 2008R2 WSFC
              • Creating Other Server Resource in WSFC
              • How to create a DK Replicated Volume that has Multiple Targets via CLI
          • FAQs
            • Add a New Disk / DK Volume to an Existing Clustered SQL Role
            • Awareness of Windows Filenames and Directory Names
            • AWS Issues and Workarounds
            • Change Mirror Endpoints
            • Change Mirror Type
            • Create a Mirror and Rename Job and Delete Job Actions Grayed Out
            • Data Transfer Network Protocols
            • Delete and Switchover Actions Grayed Out
            • Deleting a Mirror
            • Error Messages Log
            • Inability to Create a Mirror
            • Network Disconnect
            • Reclaim Full Capacity of Target Drive
            • Remove DataKeeper Storage from a Windows Server Failover Cluster Role
            • Resize or Grow Mirrored Volumes
            • Server 2012: Server Manager “File and Storage Services” Disk Status
            • Split-Brain FAQs
            • Stop Replication Between Source and Target
            • Using Volume Shadow Copy
            • Volumes Unavailable for Mirroring
          • DataKeeper Troubleshooting
            • Solutions
              • Video Solutions
              • DKCE Common Solutions
                • Most Common DKCE Installation Solutions
                • Most Common DKCE Clustering Solutions
                • Most Common DKCE Storage Solutions
                • Most Common DKCE Networking Solutions
            • Known Issues and Workarounds
              • Access to Designated Volume Denied
              • Antivirus Software, Malware, etc. Exclusions for DataKeeper for Windows
              • Dangling Sources
              • DataKeeper Does Not Support Lowercase Drive Letters as Mirror Endpoint for Jobs
              • DataKeeper Cannot be used as a Quorum Device for a Cluster
              • DataKeeper Volume cannot come Online after Network Failure with Clustered IP Address on Replication Network
              • DataKeeper Volume Not Available as Cluster Resource Type
              • Failed to Create Mirror
              • Hyper-V Host Cluster Error
              • Live Migration Failure
              • MaxResyncPasses Value
              • Mirroring with Dynamic Disks
              • New Resources Offline But Unlocked
              • Resources cannot Failover after a Target VOLUME has been replaced
              • Resources cannot Failover after a Target NODE/SYSTEM has been replaced
              • Server Login Accounts and Passwords Must Be Same on Each Server in the Cluster
              • System Event Log – Create Mirror Failed in the GUI
              • Unable to Determine Previous Install Path
              • User Interface – Failed to Create Mirror
              • User Interface – Shows Only One Side of the Mirror
              • WSFC – MS DTC Resource Failure
              • WSFC 2008 R2 SP1 Procedure Change
              • Windows Server 2008 R2 Specific Issues
                • Some SQL Server features do not work properly when installing DataKeeper on Windows Server 2008 R2 & SQL Server 2008
              • Windows Server 2012 Specific Issues
                • Windows Server 2012 MMC Snap-in Crash
                • Windows Server 2012 -- Simultaneous Move of Multiple Clustered File Server Roles Can Result in DataKeeper Switchover Failures
                • Windows Server 2012 iSCSI Target Role Does Not Support Dynamic Disks
                • Windows Server 2012 Default Information Missing During Mirror Creation
                • Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming Issue
                • WSFC 2012 Cluster Creation Default Setting Issue
                • WSFC 2012 Failover Cluster Manager UI Defect (Delete Action Missing)
                • WSFC 2012 File Server Resource Manager Event Log Errors
                • WSFC 2012 File Shares Cannot be Created for File Server Role Using Server Manager or Failover Cluster Manager
                • WSFC File Server Type Not Supported
                • WSFC 2012 Server Manager -- Incorrect Volume Display
                • WSFC 2012 Server Manager -- DataKeeper “Disk” Not Shown as Clustered
                • Windows 2012 File Share
              • Windows Server 2016 Specific Issues
                • Occasional Job Creation Failure
                • WSFC 2016 File Shares Cannot be Created for File Server Role Using Server Manager or Failover Cluster Manager
            • Restrictions
              • Bitlocker Does Not Support DataKeeper
              • CHANGEMIRRORENDPOINTS
              • CHKDSK
              • DataKeeper Volume Resize Restriction
              • Directory for Bitmap Must Be Created Prior to Relocation
              • Duplicate IP Addresses Disallowed Within a Job
              • Intensive I-O with Synchronous Replication
              • SQL FCI on Workgroup Clusters
            • Message Catalogs
              • DataKeeper Failover Clustering Resource DLL (DataKeeperVolume) Message Catalog
              • DataKeeper Service (ExtMirrSvc) Message Catalog
              • DataKeeper Driver (ExtMirr) Message Catalog
              • DataKeeper GUI (SDRSnapIn) Message Catalog
        • Product Support Schedule
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        FAQs

        Refer to this section for answers to the most frequently asked questions about SIOS DataKeeper and SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition.

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        Add a New Disk / DK Volume to an Existing Clustered SQL Role

        Awareness of Windows Filenames and Directory Names

        AWS Issues and Workarounds

        Change Mirror Endpoints

        Change Mirror Type

        Create a Mirror and Rename Job and Delete Job Actions Grayed Out

        Data Transfer Network Protocols

        Delete and Switchover Actions Grayed Out

        Deleting a Mirror FAQ

        Error Messages Log

        Evict a Node from a Cluster

        Inability to Create a Mirror

        Network Disconnect

        Reclaim Full Capacity of Target Drive

        Remove DataKeeper Storage from a Windows Server Failover Cluster Role

        Resize or Grow Mirrored Volumes

        Server 2012: Server Manager “File and Storage Services” Disk Status

        Split-Brain FAQs

        Stop Replication Between Source and Target

        Using Volume Shadow Copy

        Volumes Unavailable for Mirroring

        How to create a DK Replicated Volume that has Multiple Targets via CLI
        Add a New Disk / DK Volume to an Existing Clustered SQL Role

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