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Rather than spend a significant percentage of my life clicking on wizards, I decided to script what I want done.<\/p>\nI\u2019ve been building, tearing down, and rebuilding Storage Spaces in the lab over and over, and that will continue for the next few years Rather than spend a significant percentage of my life clicking on wizards, I decided to script what I want done.<\/p>\n
The below script will:<\/p>\n
How do I like a CSV?\u00a0 I like them formatted and the names consistent all the way: virtual disk, cluster resource name, volume label, and CSV mount point in C:ClusterStorage.\u00a0 None of that \u201cCluster Disk (X)\u201d or \u201cVolume 1\u201d BS for me, thank you.<\/p>\n
It might be possible to clean up the stuff in the function.\u00a0 This is what I have working \u2013 it works and that\u2019s the main thing.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of steps to get disk ID so I can create and format a volume, and then bring the disk back so I can turn it into a CSV.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s missing?\u00a0 I have not added code for adding the SOFS role or adding\/configuring shares.\u00a0 I\u2019m not at that point yet in the lab.<\/p>\n
Function PrepCSV ($CSVName)
\n{
\n#Rename the disk resource in FCM
\n(Get-ClusterResource | where {$_.name -like “*$CSVName)”}).Name = $CSVName<\/p>\n
#Get the disk ID
\nStop-ClusterResource $CSVName
\n$DiskID = (Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName $CSVName).UniqueId
\nStart-ClusterResource $CSVName<\/p>\n
#Format the disk
\nSuspend-ClusterResource $CSVName
\nGet-disk -UniqueId $DiskID | New-Partition -UseMaximumSize | Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel “$CSVName” -Confirm:$false
\nResume-ClusterResource $CSVName<\/p>\n
#Bring the CSV online
\nAdd-ClusterSharedVolume -Name $CSVName
\n$OldCSVName = ((Get-ClusterSharedVolume $CSVName).SharedVOlumeInfo).FriendlyVolumeName
\nRename-Item $OldCSVName -NewName “C:ClusterStorage$CSVName”
\n}<\/p>\n
# The following Storage Pool and Virtual Disk cmdlets taken from Bryan Matthew’s TechEd\u00a0 … # Find all eligible disks # Create a new Storage Pool # Define the Pool Storage Tiers <\/p>\n #Transfer ownership of Available Storage to current node to enable disk formatting<\/p>\n Move-ClusterGroup “Available Storage” -Node $env:COMPUTERNAME<\/p>\n <\/p>\n # Creation of a 200 GB tiered virtual disk with 5 GB cache <\/p>\n # Creation of a 200 GB non-tiered virtual disk with no cache<\/p>\n New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName “Demo-FSC1 Pool1” -FriendlyName CSV2 -Size 200GB -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -WriteCacheSize 0 <\/p>\n # Creation of a 50 GB virtual disk on SSD only with 5 GB cache<\/p>\n New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName “Demo-FSC1 Pool1” -FriendlyName CSV3 \u2013StorageTiers @($ssd_tier) -StorageTierSizes @(50GB) -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -WriteCacheSize 5GB <\/p>\n EDIT1:<\/p>\n This script broke if the cluster group, Available Storage, was active on another node. \u00a0This prevented formatting, which in turn prevented adding the virtual disks as CSVs. \u00a0Easy fix: move the Available Storage cluster group to the current machine (a node in the cluster).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019ve been building, tearing down, and rebuilding Storage Spaces in the lab over and over, and that will continue for the next few years Rather than spend a significant percentage of my life clicking on wizards, I decided to script what I want done. The below script will: Build a storage pool from all available … Continue reading “Build WS2012 R2 Storage Pools, Virtual Disks, And CSVs Using PowerShell”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[63,87,189,99,120],"class_list":["post-15239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-failover-clustering","tag-powershell","tag-scripting","tag-storage","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n# … Session at http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/TechEd\/Europe\/2013\/MDC-B217#fbid=TFEWNjeU9XP<\/a><\/p>\n
\n$disks = Get-PhysicalDisk |? {$_.CanPool -eq $true}<\/p>\n
\nNew-StoragePool -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName “Clustered Storage Spaces on Demo-FSC1” -FriendlyName “Demo-FSC1 Pool1” -PhysicalDisks $disks<\/p>\n
\n$ssd_tier = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName “Demo-FSC1 Pool1” -FriendlyName SSD_Tier -MediaType SSD
\n$hdd_tier = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName “Demo-FSC1 Pool1” -FriendlyName HDD_Tier -MediaType HDD<\/p>\n
\nNew-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName “Demo-FSC1 Pool1” -FriendlyName CSV1 \u2013StorageTiers @($ssd_tier, $hdd_tier) -StorageTierSizes @(50GB,150GB) -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -WriteCacheSize 5GB
\nPrepCSV CSV1<\/p>\n
\nPrepCSV CSV2<\/p>\n
\nPrepCSV CSV3<\/p>\nTechnorati Tags: Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,Failover Clustering<\/a>,Storage<\/a>,PowerShell<\/a>,Scripting<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"