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How do we add disks to Storage Spaces Direct?

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Well,

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the easiest way, the easiest road to a consistent outcome here is where

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your cluster nodes have identical storage configurations,

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but once again, you can use Windows PowerShell to run verifications like this.

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Get‑PhysicalDisk pipeline will report on all detected

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physical disks on one or more nodes.

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And in this case, we're selecting out the Property,

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SerialNumber, CanPool, CannotPoolReason,

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which will give you a nice report back.

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As I mentioned,

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S2D is pretty greedy that once you have your cluster set up

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and you've enabled Storage Spaces Direct, it will

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automatically claim new eligible drives.

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There's really not much you have to do other than just

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reporting verification and that kind of stuff. Let's get into the demo and light up some of these concepts.