For PowerShell lovers

Now everything the same but with no GUI.

1. Creating a new space.

• Select physical disks and add to the pool:

$phydisk = Get-PhysicalDisk –CanPool $true | Where BusType -eq "SAS"

• Getting a disk subsystem for a pool:

$stsubsys = Get-StorageSubsystem

• Create a new pool:

$pool = New-StoragePool -FriendlyName TestPool -StorageSubsystemFriendlyName $stsubsys**.**FriendlyName -PhysicalDisks $phydisk -ProvisioningTypeDefault Fixed

• Adding a hot spare drive:

$hotSpareDisk = Get-PhysicalDisk –CanPool $true |Out-GridView -PassThru

Add-PhysicalDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName TestPool -PhysicalDisks $hotSpareDisk -Usage HotSpare

2. Creating a data space on top of a previously created pool:

$newSpace = New-VirtualDisk –StoragePoolFriendlyName TestPool –FriendlyName space1 -Size (1GB) -ResiliencySettingName Mirror

• Initialization, markup and formatting of a previously created data space:

$spaceDisk = $newSpace | Get-Disk

Initialize-Disk -Number $spaceDisk.Number -PartitionStyle GPT

$partition = New-Partition -DiskNumber $spaceDisk.Number -DriveLetter $driveletter -size $spaceDisk.LargestFreeExtent

Format-Volume -Partition $partition -FileSystem NTFS

3. Adding data space to the cluster:

$space = Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName space1

Add-ClusterDisk $space