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Storage Spaces Direct – SSD² – redirect to local storage for testing

Storage spaces direct,

After the Ignite Session about the new storage spaces direct feature in Windows Server 2016 TP2 I created 4 node cluster on my newly created 2016 TP2 Hyper-V stand-alone host and added it to VMM 2016 TP to play little bit with it, and I discovered that I can manage and even deploy VMs to the clustered file share. It is not that performant but it works 😉

How did I get there, you ask?

  1. Create a 2016 TP2 template
  2. Deploy 4 VMs for the SSD Cluster
  3. Add a few disks to each VM
  4. Create a new fileserver cluster in VMM
  5. Create shares and assign them to you Hyper-V hosts
  6. Done

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