Configuring Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces is a new feature for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 that enables the pooling of disks on a server or workstation to deliver virtual disks to the operating system. Storage spaces are made up of storage pools, which include the physical disks, and virtual disks, which are hosted and defined within a storage pool.
Storage pools are very flexible; they can be changed to add or replace physical disks as necessary. This is a unique feature because the storage pool can be changed, but the virtual disk can remain the same, and when additional disks are added to the storage pool, the virtual disks can be expanded quite easily.
A storage pool can be created with a single disk, but when a storage pool contains ...
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