Storage Spaces Server 2016 Tiering

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Storage spaces server 2016 tiering.

Romain serre in storage may 9 2016 2 comments 11 005 views before technical preview 5 windows server enabled to create storage pool with a mix of type of disk as ssd and hdd nvme and ssd or nvme and hdd. It leverages many of the features you know today in windows server such as failover clustering the cluster shared volume csv file system server message block smb 3 and of course storage spaces. The goal of storage spaces is to create highly available storage solution that has all the advantages of san power and flexibility but is significantly cheaper storage spaces virtualizes storage which consist of hdd and ssd a storage pool is a. The downside being is that you usually have nvme ssd hdd and with the.

May 1 2017 author. Storage spaces tiering in windows server 2016 posted. Nedim mehic 6 comments storage spaces is the mechanism or technology that enables you to virtualize storage by grouping disks into storage pools and then creating virtual disks called storage spaces from the available capacity in the storage pools. A storage pool is a collection of physical disks.

To create a storage space you must first create one or more storage pools. For information about how to create a clustered storage space see deploy a storage spaces cluster on windows server 2012 r2. With the introduction of the nvme ssd this model does not work as well. Storage tiering is now done in real time and is used for both the way data is written as well as the media the data is written to.

How storage spaces direct tiering works in windows server 2016. This topic describes how to deploy storage spaces on a stand alone server.