Deployment Guide
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Clustered Storage Spaces overview
This section describes the basic tasks to create Storage Spaces in the storage solution. The procedures
described assume the failover cluster is created and validated. For best practice recommendations and
advanced PowerShell commands to configure Storage Spaces for your solution, see the Dell Storage with
Microsoft Storage Spaces Best Practice Guide available at Dell.com/dsmsmanuals. For Storage Spaces
configuration rules, see the Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Support Matrix available at
Dell.com/dsmsmanuals.
Creating a storage pool
1. In the left pane of the Failover Cluster Manager, expand the cluster name, and then go to the Storage
folder.
2. Right-click Pools, and then click New Storage Pool.
3. In New Storage Pool Wizard, click Next.
4. On the Specify a storage pool name and subsystem page, in the Name box, type the name of the
storage pool, and then select the group of primordial disks available to the cluster from which to
create the pool.
5. Click Next.
6. Select the disks you want to be a part of the storage pool, and then click Next.
7. Confirm the pool details, and then click Create.
Creating a clustered shared volume
1. In the left pane of the Failover Cluster Manager, expand the cluster name, and then go to the
Storage folder.
2. Click Pools. The cluster pools are displayed.
3. Right-click a storage pool, and then click New Virtual Disk.
4. The New Virtual Disk Wizard window opens. Click Next.
5. Select the storage pool in which to create the Storage Space, and then click Next.
6. Specify the name of the Storage Space (Virtual Disk), and then click Next.
If the storage pool contains SSDs, the option to create storage tiers in the Storage Space is available.
Select the Create storage tiers on this virtual disk check box to create storage tiers.
7. Specify the resiliency setting, and then click Next.
NOTE: Storage tiers are only supported on simple or mirror spaces.
8. Specify the size of the Storage Space or storage tiers of the Storage Space, if applicable, and then
click Next.
9. Confirm the setting of the Storage Space, and then click Create.
10. After you create the Storage Space, ensure the Create a volume when this wizard closes check box
is selected, and then click Close.
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