View Available Storage in Storage Spaces Direct | Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services

View Available Storage in a Storage Space Direct Storage Pool

Question

Your company uses Storage Spaces Direct.

You need to view the available storage in a Storage Space Direct storage pool.

What should you use?

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A. B. C. D.

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If Failover Cluster Manager, select the Storage Space Direct storage pool. The information displayed in the main window includes the free space and used space.

The correct answer is D. Failover Cluster Manager.

Storage Spaces Direct is a feature in Windows Server that enables building highly available and scalable storage systems using local storage. Storage Spaces Direct uses a storage pool that consists of disks from multiple servers in a cluster, and these disks are then grouped together into virtual disks, which can be used to store data. Failover Cluster Manager is the tool used to manage the cluster, and it can also be used to view the available storage in a Storage Spaces Direct storage pool.

To view the available storage in a Storage Spaces Direct storage pool using Failover Cluster Manager, follow these steps:

  1. Open Failover Cluster Manager.
  2. Select the cluster that has Storage Spaces Direct enabled.
  3. Click on the Storage tab.
  4. In the Storage section, you will see the available storage in the Storage Spaces Direct storage pool.

The other options listed in the question are not the correct tools for viewing the available storage in a Storage Spaces Direct storage pool:

A. System Configuration: This tool is used to configure system settings, but it does not provide information about storage pools.

B. File Server Resource Manager (FSRM): This tool is used to manage quotas, file screens, and storage reports, but it does not provide information about storage pools.

C. the Get-StorageFileServer cmdlet: This is a PowerShell cmdlet that can be used to get information about a file server that is using Storage Spaces Direct, but it does not provide information about storage pools.