Storage Spaces, Windows 11 22H2

This video will cover the installation configuration of Storage Spaces on Windows 11 to provide fault tolerance and resiliency. Storage Spaces in Windows 11 is functionally identical and similar to that provided by Windows Server 2022. We will also cover how to recover from a failed disk and seamlessly increase capacity with zero downtime. We’ll also cover creating and configuring Storage Spaces from the shell using PowerShell. The procedures here apply to both Windows 11 and Windows 10. However, as great as any fault-tolerant system is, it is no replacement for having a good, tested, recent backup to thwart inadvertent data loss.

Glossary:
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JBOD= Just a Bunch Of Disks
HBA = Host Bus Adapter
NTFS = New Technology File System
NVMe = Non-Volatile Memory Express
RAID = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks
ReFS = Resilient File System
SAS = Serial Attached SCSI
iSCSI = Internet Small Computer System Interface

Commands
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DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK n
LIST DISK
CLEAN
OFFLINE DISK
EXIT
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Get-Disk
Clear-Disk -Number n -RemoveData -RemoveOEM
Set-Disk -Number n -IsOffline $true
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Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true

$poolableDisks=Get-PhysicalDisk `
-CanPool $true | `
Where-Object {$_.size -like "13*"}

$poolName="Deeper Storage Pool"
$virtDiskStoreSpaceName="Super Deep Space"
$volumeName="Pump Up the Volume"

New-StoragePool `
-StorageSubSystemFriendlyName "Windows Storage*" `
-FriendlyName $poolName -PhysicalDisks ($poolableDisks)

New-VirtualDisk `
-StoragePoolFriendlyName $poolName `
-FriendlyName $virtDiskStoreSpaceName `
-Size 50TB -ResiliencySettingName Mirror `
-ProvisioningType Thin

Get-Disk -SerialNumber *

Initialize-Disk `
-Number 27 `
-PartitionStyle GPT
New-Volume `
-DiskNumber 27 `
-FriendlyName $volumeName `
-FileSystem ReFS -DriveLetter G
Add-PartitionAccessPath `
-DiskNumber 27 `
-PartitionNumber 2 `
-AccessPath c:\Mnt2
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Applied to:
Windows 11, Windows 10

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:57 Initial Configuration
4:40 Drive Failure
5:29 Recovery from a Drive Failure
6:14 Extend and Increase Capacity
8:17 Create a Storage Pool via PowerShell
10:10 Notes
12:36 Conclusion
13:15 Thank you!

[ultraali]

Amazing Tutorial. Thank you for putting so much effort into this!

[kmomarfarooque]

Your lecture was so easy to follow and very helpful . thank you so much.

[isaacbarahonahidalgo]

Great tutorial, thank you very much.
One question, do you know how to add SSD tier caching to a new pool?

[everythingelse.]

So it's actually possible to add disks of different sizes to the existing pool !!

[hackexpert]

This feature is much better than the Hardware RAID, I had many hardware arrays that failed and never rebuilt proeprly, because the controller does not work as expecetd or goes bad for no reason and very slow. HARDWARE RAID IS DEAD !

[everythingelse.]

What happen if we reinstall windows? What happen to the space?