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If go to MEM1 storage, we're going to see quite a bit going on.

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This is because I've already set up Storage Spaces Direct.

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So again, I've selected the server. I've gone into File and Storage Services,

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Storage Pools. And the way that we would set up a singleton instance

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of storage space is not Storage Spaces Direct,

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but Storage Spaces traditionally, is that you would enumerate your

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physical disks down here, and you would create a pool.

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Now normally in Windows Server, you have a default pool called

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the primordial or primordial pool. And then we can right‑click

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and add physical disks to that pool, and those available disks

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would be enumerated down here.

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Another thing we could do,

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I mentioned this actually a little while ago, is we could use PowerShell

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to report on disks and their status. For instance,

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let's take a look at this snippet of PowerShell.

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Let me bring up my terminal here.

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I showed you this pipeline before, Get‑PhysicalDisk, and then we

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can select out whatever properties we want to see. Particularly, we

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want to see whether we CanPool, CannotPoolReason. But let me select

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this, right‑click, run it.

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Yeah, so in this case,

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these three disks originally I'm sure would've reported back as CanPool True,

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but now they're false simply because they're in a pool. It looks like I

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do have that fourth disk that is still in a true status, so I can always

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add that to the storage pool on my single workstation. And this last disk

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here would be my system drive. There's insufficient capacity, so I can't

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add that to the pool.

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So like I said,

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this gives us a view from the perspective of a single cluster

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node showing us the physical disks. Actually, because it's kind

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of confusing because this, again,

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is showing us Storage Spaces Direct, even though it doesn't say,

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well, it does. It says Clustered Windows Storage. So it's implied

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here that this is Storage Spaces Direct.

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Well look,

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instead of just talking through how Storage Spaces behaves on a

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Windows server, why don't we actually check it out?

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We're looking at the desktop of one of my read‑only domain controllers.

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And so we're just going to repeat the same kind of stuff we did

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on the client, but I think it's important for you to see this on

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both the client and the server both.

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So here we can see the disk management shows I've got three disks, but

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these, because they come in by default on Windows Server is offline,

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we're not prompted to initialize, so we've got a couple steps. I'm going

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to right‑click and bring these guys online first by right‑clicking in

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their headings, and then we're going to, again, right‑click to do an

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initialized disk, and then we see the screen that we saw on the client

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machine.

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So now these disks are ready for Storage Spaces or Storage

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Spaces Direct, depending upon what you're doing. So again, let me bring up Server Manager.