We'll select File and Storage Services, Storage Pools, and
there's the Primordial pool that I told you about before, and
here are our three physical disks.
Now we could create a brand‑new storage pool here, so
I'm going to right‑click. Actually,
can I do a multi‑select? I can. I'm going to do a
shift‑click really. I'm sure you know this,
but if not, select one, hold down Shift,
hit the second, and all in between ones are selected. Right‑click New
Storage Pool, and I'm going to call this one pool1 on rodc1.
We're going to enlist all three of those for allocation here.
We can specify, this is kind of cool.
We didn't see these options surfaced on Windows client.
We can bring machines in specifically as a Hot Spare.
Otherwise, we could let Storage Spaces monitor the disks that way,
just depending upon your need for control I suppose.
Okay,
good, so now those disks have been claimed out of the Primordial
pool, but we can see them and report on them again here. We can
remove, and we can go to Properties and just look at some health,
and so on, and so forth.
And then, of course, we're going to want to start to
carve out virtual and physical disks.
So we do a New Virtual Disk,
select the storage pool, and we step through this
wizard that we've used quite a bit.
I'll call this data1.
Now if you've got tiered disks,
this is where you would specify to create storage tiers.
Now I don't have solid‑state,
these are all mechanical disks, so this option is
unavailable. So let's go here, enclosure awareness,
nope. Here's where we get our layout options, and again,
depending upon how many disks you have,
you're going to need five discs at least to do three‑way mirroring,
and for parity to protect against two failures,
you need at least seven disks.
If you want to do a RAID 5 type array, single disk failure,
that would be at least three disks.
Again, I'm going to do a simple Mirror. Provisioning, Thin or Thick.
This is something, again, we didn't see on the client side. We don't have to
use all the space if we want to, or we could specify, yes,
use the maximum space.
I'm going to make this just a 40‑GB slice, click Next, and click
Create. So creating the virtual disk is half of it.
We then need to create a volume, so we'll leave that Create a volume
selected. Make sure that our disk is selected, yes it is.
Provisioning, drive letter, not do a drive letter,
do a folder mount; File system, NTFS or ReFS; what the
volume name is. Next, and then Create.
So there it is.
So this whole pattern,
this whole motif is surfaced with Storage Spaces direct, but we
transition it. Instead of Windows Storage, we bring it into
Cluster Storage. Switching back to my workstation here, now let's
open up Failover Cluster Manager.
Not Disk Management, thank you very much.
Let's open up Failover Cluster, and let's make a
connection to our cluster, Connect to Cluster. Mine is called az801cluster.