Windows Server Catalog Storage Spaces

For windows server 2019 the first wave of wssd offers will launch in february 2019 in about three months.

Windows server catalog storage spaces.

Use the following powershell command to validate a set of servers for use as a storage spaces direct cluster. Windows server 2019 windows server 2016 this topic describes minimum hardware requirements for storage spaces direct on windows server. You can use storage spaces to group three or more drives together into a storage pool and then use capacity from that pool to create storage spaces. The certified for windows server badge demonstrates that a mission critical or line of business application meets microsoft s highest technical bar for windows fundamentals best practices and platform compatibility.

Attesting to efficient deployment capabilities in the cloud and the enterprise. Storage spaces is a technology in windows and windows server that can help protect your data from drive failures. A storage pool is a collection of physical disks. A storage space.

The file and storage services section of server manager available in windows server you can use server manager to create and manage storage spaces also referred to as virtual disks and their associated storage pools on the storage spaces subsystem as well as on non microsoft storage subsystems. Random writes which often dominate common enterprise workloads are directed to ssds and later are written to hdds. To create a storage space you must first create one or more storage pools. For hardware requirements on azure stack hci our operating system designed for hyperconverged deployments with a connection to the cloud see before you deploy azure stack hci.

A storage pool enables storage aggregation elastic capacity expansion and delegated administration. These virtual disks are also referred to as storage spaces. From a storage pool you can create one or more virtual disks. Storage spaces in windows server 2012 r2 supports creating a write back cache that uses a small amount of space on existing ssds in the pool to buffer small random writes.

It is conceptually similar to raid implemented in software. Test cluster node machinename1 machinename2 machinename3 machinename4 include storage spaces direct inventory network system configuration. For information about how to create a clustered storage space see deploy a storage spaces cluster on windows server 2012 r2. Microsoft recommends deploying storage spaces direct on hardware validated by the wssd program.