Storage Spaces, Windows 11 22H2

This video will cover setting up Storage Spaces on Windows 11 to ensure fault tolerance and resiliency. Storage Spaces in Windows 11 are functionally identical and similar to those provided by Windows Server 2022. We will also explain how to recover from a failed disk and seamlessly increase capacity without downtime. We'll also cover creating and configuring storage spaces from the shell using PowerShell. The procedures presented here apply to both Windows 11 and Windows 10. However, as effective as any fault-tolerant system is, it is not a substitute for a good, tested, and recent backup to prevent accidental data loss.

Glossary:

JBOD just a bunch of disks
HBA Host Bus Adapter
New technology NTFS file system
NVMe Express non-volatile memory
RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks
Resilient File System ReFS
Serial-connected SAS SCSI
iSCSI Internet System Interface for Small Computers

Orders

DISC PART
DISC LIST
SELECT DISK n
DISC LIST
TO DO THE HOUSEWORK
OFFLINE DISK
EXIT
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Get the disk
Clear-Disk -Number n -RemoveData -RemoveOEM
Set-Disk -Number n -IsOffline true
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Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool true

poolableDisksGet-PhysicalDisk
-CanPool true
Where-Object {_.size -like /"13*/"}

poolName/"Deeper storage pool/"
virtDiskStoreSpaceName/"Super Deep Space/"
volumeName/"Increase the volume/"

New storage pool
-StorageSubSystemFriendlyName /"Windows Storage*/"
-FriendlyName poolName -PhysicalDisks (poolableDisks)

New virtual disk
-StoragePoolFriendlyName pool name
-FriendlyName virtDiskStoreSpaceName
-Size 50 TB -ResiliencySettingName Mirror
-ProvisioningType Thin

Get-Disk-SerialNumber *

Initialize disk
-Number 27
-PartitionStyleGPT
New-Volume
-DiscNumber 27
-FriendlyName volume name
-FileSystem ReFS -DriveLetter G
Add-PartitionAccessPath
-DiscNumber 27
-PartitionNumber 2
-AccessPath c://Mnt2

Applied to :
Windows 11, Windows 10

Chapters
00:00 Presentation
1:57 Initial setup
4:40 p.m. Drive failure
5:29 Recovering from disk failure
6:14 Expand and increase capacity
8:17 Create a storage pool via PowerShell
10:10 a.m. Remarks
12:36 Conclusion
1:15 p.m. Thank you!

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