So going through a bit of articles today. Yes I was having to find some study and work to keep myself productive today. Not a bad thing right?
In my reading I found the following "awesome" FAQ on Storage Spaces: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11382.storage-spaces-frequently-asked-questions-faq.aspx#How_can_I_manage_Storage_Spaces
So call outs on it, which I may spread out in a couple of articles here.
The subtitle: How can I manage Storage Spaces?
This is by far one of my most painful areas of this awesome product. While I can create a very simple and basic pool from the GUI and I have the flexibility of advanced options in PowerShell; it really is not as ease of management that it could be.
Maybe I am not as "fair" as I could be. I come from a background where I used hardware array's and the vendors created a very elaborate GUI or used off-array tools to manage. So yes I am a little tainted. If it was a bit more of a stand alone module - say like Fail-Over Cluster Manager? Maybe?
The key is for MS to have this software-defined storage win people who have been using say EMC, Netapp, Dell, or other vendor's solution who have most of the information about the storage within easy grasp/view. Storage guys do not want to look too deep or too long to find why virtual disk X is offline - too much rides on it to not have an answer fast.
To offset this I have used PowerShell to output some "typical" commands that I use and make a nice table for me to review. I am by no means the 'Shell guru that many others are but now with ISE I can make a simple .ps1 and run it locally. Export it to HTML and it is not a bad format. Any ideas?
In my reading I found the following "awesome" FAQ on Storage Spaces: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11382.storage-spaces-frequently-asked-questions-faq.aspx#How_can_I_manage_Storage_Spaces
So call outs on it, which I may spread out in a couple of articles here.
The subtitle: How can I manage Storage Spaces?
This is by far one of my most painful areas of this awesome product. While I can create a very simple and basic pool from the GUI and I have the flexibility of advanced options in PowerShell; it really is not as ease of management that it could be.
Maybe I am not as "fair" as I could be. I come from a background where I used hardware array's and the vendors created a very elaborate GUI or used off-array tools to manage. So yes I am a little tainted. If it was a bit more of a stand alone module - say like Fail-Over Cluster Manager? Maybe?
The key is for MS to have this software-defined storage win people who have been using say EMC, Netapp, Dell, or other vendor's solution who have most of the information about the storage within easy grasp/view. Storage guys do not want to look too deep or too long to find why virtual disk X is offline - too much rides on it to not have an answer fast.
To offset this I have used PowerShell to output some "typical" commands that I use and make a nice table for me to review. I am by no means the 'Shell guru that many others are but now with ISE I can make a simple .ps1 and run it locally. Export it to HTML and it is not a bad format. Any ideas?
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