How do we add disks to Storage Spaces Direct?
Well,
the easiest way, the easiest road to a consistent outcome here is where
your cluster nodes have identical storage configurations,
but once again, you can use Windows PowerShell to run verifications like this.
Get‑PhysicalDisk pipeline will report on all detected
physical disks on one or more nodes.
And in this case, we're selecting out the Property,
SerialNumber, CanPool, CannotPoolReason,
which will give you a nice report back.
As I mentioned,
S2D is pretty greedy that once you have your cluster set up
and you've enabled Storage Spaces Direct, it will
automatically claim new eligible drives.
There's really not much you have to do other than just
reporting verification and that kind of stuff. Let's get into the demo and light up some of these concepts.