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Thanks, it's good to get a sanity check before heading down the wrong road
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Thanks, it's good to get a sanity check before heading down the wrong road

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This might be a silly question, but I'm going to ask it anyway.<br />
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Storage Pools on Server 2012R2, all the documentation I've read keeps using the work &quot;Physical Disk&quot; <br />
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I have a HP blade connected via brocade fibre switch to a HP EVA 8100, I've presented 2TB and setup the MPIO software<br />
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so I have 1 Disk, not exactly physical, but I see the option to start making use of the storage pool options, and in time when I add &nbsp;another 2TB, it can just slip in making more space and not having to have another drive letter.<br />
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Should I be going down this road, making use of this feature with such a setup, or should I NOT be using such a feature, as it's made for physical disks in the front of the server, rather then fibre attached storage?<br />
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some clarification would go along way :)<br />
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thanks
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This might be a silly question, but I'm going to ask it anyway.

Storage Pools on Server 2012R2, all the documentation I've read keeps using the work "Physical Disk" 

I have a HP blade connected via brocade fibre switch to a HP EVA 8100, I've presented 2TB and setup the MPIO software

so I have 1 Disk, not exactly physical, but I see the option to start making use of the storage pool options, and in time when I add  another 2TB, it can just slip in making more space and not having to have another drive letter.

Should I be going down this road, making use of this feature with such a setup, or should I NOT be using such a feature, as it's made for physical disks in the front of the server, rather then fibre attached storage?

some clarification would go along way :)

thanks

Server 2012 R2 Storage Pools with HP EVA

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.