Mastering Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

Types of Controllers In Chapter 2, I told you about two types of storage controllers available in a generati ...

Figure 4.1 An error occurs as the administrator tries to disable write caching within a virtual machine. Applic ...

unmounts can be useful. PowerShell provides an easy way to mount and unmount a VHDX file: Mount-VHD - Path D:\Virtuals\newdyn.vh ...

file and inspecting the MinimumSize attribute. Note that when working with dynamic disks, changing the size ...

Dynamic VHDX Resize Prior to Windows Server 2012 R2, any changes to the size of a VHDX file required t ...

Storage Spaces and Windows as a Storage Solution This section briefly covers the big shift in storage introduced wit ...

possible. Management was quite painful, and RAID volumes could not be resized easily. It was not supported in a ...

Using Storage Spaces To create a storage pool, follow these steps: 1 . From the Tasks menu, choose New Storag ...

2 . Confirm that the correct server and storage pool is selected in the Storage Pool selection page of the wiz ...

client, in the Storage Spaces Control Panel applet. PERFORMANCE AND STORAGE SPACES One concern I always had when using ...

Figure 4.4 Storage Spaces architecture showing a hot block moving from the HDD tier to the SSD tier When you ...

Create two tiers in the Storage Pool created. One for SSD disks and one for HDD disks $ssd_Tier = New-StorageTier ...

4.5. Figure 4.5 Selecting the resiliency for a 2016 virtual disk While the greatest focus for Windows Server 20 ...

still the focus filesystem for Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2016, outside of Storage Spaces Direct. STORAGE SPACE ...

Figure 4.7 shows the two deployment choices. Typically, you should have a minimum of four nodes to use pari ...

if it’s attached to every node in the cluster. This is achieved through ClusPort and ClusBflt, whic ...

Figure 4.8 Storage Spaces Direct workings under the hood The manual configuration of tiers is not used with ...

virtual disk Metadata. Also note that the SBC uses 5 GB of memory per 1 TB of caching devices in the node, which means that it ...

mirror tier. 2 . Data is rotated to the parity (capacity) tier as required, freeing up space in the mirror ti ...

The same benefit applies to extending an existing VHD. The same Metadata manipulation applies when merging ...