Question
You have a server named Server1.
You plan to use Storage Spaces to expand the storage available to Server1. You attach eight physical disks to Server1. Four disks are HDDs and four are SSDs.
You need to create a volume on Server1 that will use the storage on all the new disks. The solution must provide the fastest read performance for frequently used files.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Explanation
1. Create a storage pool: Storage Spaces first groups all eight new physical disks (four SSDs and four HDDs) into one storage pool. The disks do not need to be converted to dynamic or GPT disks first; that is handled when they are added to the pool.
2. Create a virtual disk: in the New Virtual Disk Wizard, select Create storage tiers on this virtual disk. With tiering, Storage Spaces keeps the most frequently used data on the SSD tier and moves less-used data to the HDD tier, which gives the fastest reads for frequently used files while still using the space on all the disks.
3. Create a simple volume: create a volume on the new virtual disk, assign a drive letter and format it. A spanned volume is a dynamic-disk feature and is not used with Storage Spaces.
