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SIOS TECHNOLOGY CORP.
  • DKCE LIVE — 8.11.0
    • DKCE LIVE — 10.0
    • DKCE LIVE — 8.11.0
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    • DKCE LIVE — 8.10.1
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    • DKCE LIVE — 8.9.1
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    • 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
                • Bitmap Writes Unexpectedly Fail When Any Volume is Removed (disk offline or partition deleted)
                • 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
                • Unexpected Order of the Upper Filters List May Cause Inability to Boot or Inability to Create Page Files
                • User Interface – Failed to Create Mirror
                • User Interface – Shows Only One Side of the Mirror
                • WSFC – MS DTC Resource Failure
                • 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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