Creating a Linux software RAID device

Linux provides many different ways of creating software RAIDs, none of which, of course, come with dedicated PowerShell cmdlets. In this recipe, we will look at mdadm to create a very simple RAID.

Getting ready

To get ready for this recipe, a lab environment is highly recommended. To create a lab environment on a Hyper-V machine, you can use the following code snippet:

New-LabDefinition -Name PoolParty -DefaultVirtualizationEngine HyperV
Add-LabVirtualNetworkDefinition -Name 'Default Switch' -HyperVProperties @{ SwitchType = 'External'; AdapterName = 'Ethernet' }

$disks = foreach ($count in 1..10)
{
 Add-LabDiskDefinition -Name linuxd$count -DiskSizeInGb 5 -SkipInitialize...