Storage Pool in Windows Server 2016 Step by Step

Complete Lab (v1.0)

Ahmed Abdelwahed
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Ahmed_abdulwahed@outlook.com
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Contents
Storage Pool overview............................................................................................................................................. 3
Existing environment .............................................................................................................................................. 3
Configuring storage pool ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Task 1: Create a storage pool ............................................................................................................................... 3
Task 2: Create a parity disk using created Storage Pool (Spool01) ............................................................................. 5
Task 3: create a volume based on parity disk that we just created ............................................................. 8
Task 4: test What does the parity do when one disk fail (Disconnect one disk) ........................................ 11
Task 5: recover disk failure with parity ....................................................................................................... 12

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Storage Pool overview

collection of virtual or physical disks that enables cost-effective, high availability, scalable, and flexible storage solutions.

Existing environment
1. OS: Windows server 2016
2. Domain Name: ITPROLABS.XYZ
3. Domain IP: 192.168.153.10/24
4. IP Scheme: 192.168.153.0/24
5. Storage server Name: FSRM01 (our test server)
6. Storage server IP: 192.168.153.60

Configuring storage pool

Task 1: Create a storage pool

1- Add 5 virtual disk by using VMWare virtual machine settings

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2- On FSRM01, in Server Manager, in the navigation pane, click Storage Pools.

Create first storage pool with named SPool01 using 5 HD

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Now, first storage pool is created using 5 hard disk with total space 300GB.

Task 2: Create a parity disk using created Storage Pool (Spool01)

1- In Server Manager, in the STORAGE POOLS pane, click SPool1, and follow the below figures

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in this lab, we only select 20 GB from our Spool01 (300 GB), so we can use remain space to create another virtual disk.

Virtual disk configuration summary

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Task 3: create a volume based on parity disk that we just created

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now, new volume with parity is created

Task 4: test What does the parity do when one disk fail (Disconnect one disk)
In this task, remove one disk from 5 that we add it to storage pool

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after disk is removed, there is a warning message appear in our virtual parity disk, but the disk still is accessible because
parity disk work with at least 3 disks and we still have 4 disks.

Task 5: recover disk failure with parity

1- Add a new disk with same removed disk size to the server

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2- Add the new disk to parity disk group so we can replace the failed disk, as explained in below figures

3- After disk added successfully, you can remove failed disk from the pool

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4- Now parity will repair the problem by adding the new disk to RAID 5 disk pool

5- now the failed disk is replaced successfully.

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