Introduction
As on my previous article, I have explain the foundation of the storage pool and storage spaces. Now it's the time to get our hand dirty and feel it your self how easily we can built a resilience storage without any storage controller. If you haven't read my previous post on storage spaces, I would recommend you to read and try to understand how it work. You can click here
Configuration
As on my previous article, I have explain the foundation of the storage pool and storage spaces. Now it's the time to get our hand dirty and feel it your self how easily we can built a resilience storage without any storage controller. If you haven't read my previous post on storage spaces, I would recommend you to read and try to understand how it work. You can click here
Configuration
1)In order to start with the
above, you would need to plug in any physical disk (e.g. usb drive) or you can create a virtual
disk and attach to the disk management. To open the disk management, you can
use the command compmgmt.msc to open the administration screen. In this demo,
what we will do is to create a storage pool.
2)Server manager is
open by default each time when you are login in to the system. Once it is open,
click on the “File and Storage
Services”.
3)It will bring you to this screen, what you have seen
in step 1, you have created 4 raw disk and now you can see all the
disk appear when you click on storage pool.
4)Right click on the primpodial and select
new storage pool.
5)It
is good to have a better labeling for the pool. The reason
behind is when you perform any maintenance at least you know what are those
pool is been assign to.
6)You can either
select 2 disk or select all the disk to create pool.
7)Verify the setting
that you have committed, once you are ready click create to proceed.
8)If you did see a check box “Create a virtual disk when
this wizard close”, click on it before click on the close
button.
9)If you notice, the storage pool name you have been define it have been created.
10)The steps it is
not end here, now you need to create the virtual disk so you can assign the
disk to the host.
11)If you have a different pool name ,
you will see on the bottom. Since on this demo I have just one pool name, you
can use the default settings and click next.
12)This is also important for the labeling purpose, you
might want to create a meaningful name to it
such as servername_drive1 to differentiate the disk is assign to which host.
13)Select a
storage layout (choose how data will be placed on the disk):
- Simple: Data is striped across disks, maximizing capacity and throughput, but decreasing reliability
- Mirror: Data will be mirrored across two or three disks, improving reliability but decreasing capacity
- Parity: Data will be striped with parity information across all disks, reducing capacity but improving reliability
Note: This
does feel a bit like RAID, but that is only an analogy; the technology is not
the same as RAID and does not use any
type of RAID groupings.
14) Following
layout selection, you will select a provisioning type of Thin (allocated on
demand) or Fixed (allocated right now).
15)Allocate
the size you required
16)Verify the content
and double confirm on the configuration before create the disk.
17)Select the option
“create the volume when this wizard closes”. As for now what we have achieved
is we have created the pool and virtual disk. The next steps is to format the
virtual disk with a file system.
18)Base on the previous configuration we have done, we have create a disk space of 20gb, now we
need to format the volume.
19)You will see here, we need to specify the size again,
the reason behind is we need to format the disk
depending on the size we want. In this example I will use the entire
allocation.
20)Specify a drive
letter for the volume and click next.
21)Click next to
proceed
22)Confirm the
configuration and click next to proceed
23)Click close to close the
wizard.
24)If you open your computer management in the server it
self, you will see the drive E have been allocated.
25)This is what you will see
in my computer.
Summary
Great article. Thanks for the walk-through.
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