StorageSpaces

A PowerShell Module for managing Storage Spaces in Windows. The StorageSpaces module is a PowerShell module which utilizes the Storage module for Windows PowerShell to provide a streamlined management experience for Storage Spaces.

This module provides the ability to easily manage Storage Spaces for single-machine deployments, as well as providing cluster-aware management when using Storage Spaces in a Windows Failover Cluster.

When using the StorageSpaces module, you can create a Storage Space and provision the disk in a single step, rather than using multiple cmdlets from the Storage module to do this same workflow in a granular fashion.

PowerShell

Create a Mirror Storage Space that is thinly provisioned, and format a

volume on the Storage Space and use letter E on the new Volume.

  New-SpacesVolume -StoragePoolFriendlyName Internal -SpaceFriendlyName  
  MirrorTest -Size (20GB) -ResiliencyType Mirror -ProvisioningType Thin - 
  DriveLetterToUse E  

Create a detailed report on the Storage Spaces pool, Storage Spaces, an pool disks

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-SpacesConfiguration -StoragePoolFriendlyName Backup

StoragePoolFriendlyName : Backup HealthStatus : Healthy IsReadOnly : False IsClusteredStoragePool : False ThinProvisionAlertThreshold : 70 % StoragePoolFreeGigabytes : 4442 StoragePoolUsedSpacePercent : 60.25 StoragePoolFreeSpacePercent : 39.75 OperationalStatus : OK NumberofPhysicalDisksInPool : 4 NumberofStorageSpacesInPool : 1 NumberofUnhealthyPhysicalDisks : 0 NumberofUnhealthyStorageSpaces : 0

OperationalStatus : OK HealthStatus : Healthy DiskUniqueID : D3568BF49705E211BE6D002522F8BB58 DriveLetter : Z VolumeSize : 4947667034112 SizeRemaining : 1341698236416 VolumeObjectID : \?\Volume{f48b56da-0597-11e2-be6d-002522f8bb58}\ FileSystem : NTFS BackingPhysicalDisks : {Added-JAN02013, Added-Jan2013(old drive), Added Jan 2012 (Old Drive2), Added-Jan2013-Old} PoolFriendlyName : Backup SpaceFriendlyName : USB-Backup StorageSpaceUniqueID : D3568BF49705E211BE6D002522F8BB58 IsManualAttach : False DetachedReason : None SpaceUsageAlertPercentage : {70}

Display information about the health of all pooled disks in a Storage Spaces pool, such as temperature, read errors, and write errors

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-SpacesPoolPhysicalDiskHWCounter -StoragePoolFriendlyName Backup

PhysicalDiskFriendlyName : Added Jan 2012 (Old Drive2) PhysicalDiskUniqueID : USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_WDC_WD30&Prod_EZRX-00MMMB0&Rev_\DCA2969546FF&2:Bruce-PC CurrentTemperatureCelsius : 33 PowerOnHours : 4836 ReadErrorsTotal : 0 WriteErrorsTotal :
ReadLatencyMax : 445 WriteLatencyMax : 424

PhysicalDiskFriendlyName : Added-JAN02013 PhysicalDiskUniqueID : USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_WDC_WD30&Prod_EZRX-00MMMB0&Rev_\DCA2969546FF&0:Bruce-PC CurrentTemperatureCelsius : 32 PowerOnHours : 1756 ReadErrorsTotal : 0 WriteErrorsTotal :
ReadLatencyMax : 444 WriteLatencyMax : 429

PhysicalDiskFriendlyName : Added-Jan2013(old drive) PhysicalDiskUniqueID : USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_WDC_WD30&Prod_EZRX-00MMMB0&Rev_\DCA2969546FF&1:Bruce-PC CurrentTemperatureCelsius : 33 PowerOnHours : 3002 ReadErrorsTotal : 0 WriteErrorsTotal :
ReadLatencyMax : 638 WriteLatencyMax : 862

PhysicalDiskFriendlyName : Added-Jan2013-Old PhysicalDiskUniqueID : USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_WDC_WD30&Prod_EZRX-00MMMB0&Rev_\DCA2969546FF&3:Bruce-PC CurrentTemperatureCelsius : 34 PowerOnHours : 5427 ReadErrorsTotal : 0 WriteErrorsTotal :
ReadLatencyMax : 715 WriteLatencyMax : 426