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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook, Fifth Edition
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Storage Spaces is a technology in Windows 10/11 and Windows Server that implements software RAID. You can add multiple physical drives to your server or workstation, and create fault-tolerant volumes for your host. You can read more about Storage Spaces at https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/overview.
You can use Storage Spaces on a single host or server to protect against unexpected disk drive failures. You should note that Storage Spaces is separate from Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). S2D enables you to create a virtual SAN with multiple hosts providing SMB3 access to a scale-out file server.
You run this recipe on SRV1
, a domain-joined host in the Reskit.Org domain. You also need DC1
, a domain controller for the Reskit.org domain. This recipe uses the five virtual disks you added to SRV1
earlier in the chapter .at the start of the Managing Disks recipe.
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