Hyper-converged solution in Windows Server
  • Introduction
  • Intro
    • Introduction
    • Requirements
    • Topology
  • Preparing the servers
    • Server 1: The Domain Controller
    • Prepping the 2 HC servers
    • Server 2: HyperConvergence 1
    • Server 3: HyperConvergence 2
  • Set up the Fail over cluster with storage spaces direct
    • Test the cluster
    • Build the cluster
    • Add a cluster witness
    • Clean the disks
    • Enable storage spaces direct
    • Create cluster-volumes
  • Setup Hyper-V and test
    • The next steps
    • Edit Hyper-V Paths
    • Create a High Available VM
    • Test it
    • Where to go from here
  • Extra
    • Add a 3rd node
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  1. Set up the Fail over cluster with storage spaces direct

Create cluster-volumes

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So, the only thing that's left is to create a cluster volume on the Storage spaces direct pool of clustered disks. I used the cmdlets presented .

Warning: Don't create a 1TB volume ;) adjust your size

New-Volume -FriendlyName "Volume1" -FileSystem CSVFS_ReFS -StoragePoolFriendlyName S2D* -Size 1TB

Here is me executing the cmdlet, on my DC.

All in all, this is how your pool should look like in the failover cluster manager.

If you were wondering where that S2D* came from in the cmdlet. So did I. It was only afterwards I found out where you can get the Pool name.

The only option for clusters with two servers is two-way mirroring. This keeps two copies of all data, one copy on the drives in each server. Its storage efficiency is 50% – to write 1 TB of data, you need at least 2 TB of physical storage capacity in the storage pool. Two-way mirroring can safely tolerate one hardware failure (drive or server) at a time.1

All in all, have a good look around before heading to the next part.

Mind your cluster capacity! It's very nice to show the complete capacity, but bear in mind that in a 2-node cluster Storage Spaces direct is set to "mirroring". Just like says:

Microsoft KB
here