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Create Storage Pools, Virtual Disks and Volumes with Server Manager in Server 2012 / 2016

Posted on February 23, 2021 By rich No Comments on Create Storage Pools, Virtual Disks and Volumes with Server Manager in Server 2012 / 2016

Here are the PowerShell Commands to complete:

# create a new storage pool
New-StoragePool -FriendlyName AllTheDisks -StorageSubSystemUniqueId (Get-StorageSubSystem).UniqueId -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true)
# create virtual disk
New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName CompanyData -StoragePoolFriendlyName AllTheDisks -Size 2TB -ProvisioningType Thin -ResiliencySettingName Mirror
# initialize underlying physical disks
Initialize-Disk -VirtualDisk (Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName CompanyData)
# partition and format volumes from virtual disk
$vd = Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName CompanyData | Get-Disk
$vd | 
    New-Partition -Size 100GB -Driveletter U |
            Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -AllocationUnitSize 4096 -NewFileSystemLabel "User Data"
$vd |     
    New-Partition -Size 500GB -Driveletter I |
        Format-Volume -FileSystem ReFS -AllocationUnitSize 4096 -NewFileSystemLabel "IT Data"
$vd | 
    New-Partition -Size 1TB -Driveletter V |
        Format-Volume -FileSystem ReFS -AllocationUnitSize 65536 -NewFileSystemLabel "VM Data"

 

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