Summary

This chapter taught you about the storage technologies available on servers and enhanced Windows Server 2022-related storage technology management features.

After exploring the various storage technologies, you now understand the multiple ways and methods of working with local storage, network storage, block-level storage, and file-level storage; adapter and controller types; serial bus technologies, storage protocols; file-sharing protocols; and more. You also briefly looked at managing storage with Server Manager and Windows PowerShell. Then, you learned about RAID and the difference between hardware and software RAIDs, which help enable HA for the services in your organization. Finally, this chapter concluded with an exercise that provided instructions on enabling the Dedup feature in Windows Server 2022.

The next chapter will teach you about tuning and maintaining the performance of Windows Server 2022.