JamesPCSchool: Storage Spaces Direct S2D Chapter 1

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Storage Spaces Direct S2D Chapter 1 - Overview and Preparation

Storage Spaces Direct S2D Chapter 2 - Install and configure Cluster with Powershell

Storage Spaces Direct S2D Chapter 3 - Create Witness share

S2D

0. Overview

0-1. What is Storage Spaces Direct S2D

Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features such as caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovations such as RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivalled efficiency and performance. (Refer to Storage Spaces Direct overview)

0-2. Powershell installation

In this Lab, we will use PowerShell to build up because some features are not supported by using server manager to build up.

1. Lab Preparation

1-1. Environment Setup

Before doing the lab, we need to set up the lab environment. The lab environment is as the table below:

Domain Name: JamesLab.com
Domain Administrator: sysop

1-2 Computer Setup

Domain Controller

DHCP

DNS

Node01

Node02

1-3. Create Fixed 5GB SSD * 6

Create 3 * 5GB fixed SSD for each Node01 and Node02 from VirtualBox Manager

1-4. Install Failover Clustering Feature

Install Failover Clustering Feature on Node01 and Node02
Refer to the chapter to see how to install Failover Clustering Feature (Failover Cluster Chapter 4 - Cluster Validation). Just need to finish the installation, don't need to do the validation. We will do it by using PowerShell in the next chapter.
When finished, click "Close"