Deploying Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces is a technology in Windows 10/11 and Windows Server that implements software RAID. You can add multiple physical drives to your server or workstation, and create fault-tolerant volumes for your host. You can read more about Storage Spaces at https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/overview.
You can use Storage Spaces on a single host or server to protect against unexpected disk drive failures. You should note that Storage Spaces is separate from Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D enables you to create a virtual SAN with multiple hosts providing SMB3 access to a scale-out file server.
Getting ready
You run this recipe on SRV1, a domain-joined host in the Reskit.Org domain. You also need DC1, a domain controller for the Reskit.org domain. This recipe uses the five virtual disks you added to SRV1 earlier in the chapter .at the start of the Managing Disks recipe.
How to do it...
- Viewing disks available for pooling
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