In this video, learn how to use thin provisioning in Storage Spaces to utilize a storage pool to create a volume that can be spread across multiple drives and servers for expandability and redundancy. The volume can be simple or added using redundancy. The storage will then expand as needed because it starts out with only the amount of storage it is using after creation.
- [Instructor] Thin Provisioning allows … administrators to add flexibility … and redundancy to their storage … using Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2019. … Storage Spaces works inside Storage Pools, … and requires at least one unused disk … to be made available for this feature. … Let's click on Disks inside Server Manager, … and then File and Storage Services. … And we see three, 5GB disks that we can use … for our new Thin Provision partition. … Let's go down to where it says Storage Pools, … and we this Primordial Pool that's created by default. … And this is only available if you have … hard drives that are not currently formatted, … but online on your server. … If we go back to our disks, we can see … we have have these three drives, … they are online, the partition is GPT, … but they're not yet formatted. … And we can tell this at a glance … simply by right clicking on the drive … and see the New Volume option. … So, lets go back to our Storage Pools … and choose our Primordial disk, …
Author
Robert McMillen
Released
3/13/2019- Working with the Computer Management interface
- Formatting disks and editing files from the command line
- Configuring advanced file services
- Using PowerShell to create VHD and VHDX files
- Implementing Storage Replica
- Configuring tiered storage
- Data deduplication
- Storage on Hyper-V
- Creating a RAID mirror in Storage Spaces Direct
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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1. Introduction to File and Storage Services in Server 2019
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Command-line disk formatting5m 34s
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Command-line file utilities5m 55s
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Volumes and disks4m 22s
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2. Configure Advanced File Services
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Configure file sharing6m 31s
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3. Implement Storage Features
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Mount VHDX files in Explorer2m 23s
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Implement Storage Replica6m 38s
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4. Configure and Optimize Storage
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Implementing iSNS5m 23s
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Configure tiered storage5m 43s
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Configure MPIO2m 57s
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5. Additional Storage Roles
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Data deduplication intro1m 36s
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Practical deduplication4m 6s
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Storage on Hyper-V4m 41s
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6. Other Storage Options
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Configure storage pools3m 45s
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Conclusion
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Next steps40s
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