Chapter 16 - Storage Spaces Direct - Do I know this already?

Question 1

What edition of Server 2016 do you need for Storage Spaces Direct?

a. Enterprise
b. Datacenter
c. Standard
d. Advanced

Answer 1

b. Datacenter

Question 2

How many nodes can take part in Storage Spaces Direct?

a. 8
b. 16
c. 32
d. 64

Answer 2

b. 16

Question 3

Which of the following is true about Storage Spaces Direct?

a. Disks can be partitioned.
b. You should use a minimum of six drives.
c. You can have RAID running already on the disks.
d. You should have at least four SSDs.

Answer 3

b. You should use a minimum of six drives.

Question 4

What clusters are used in disaggregated Storage Spaces Direct? Choose two.

a. SoFS
b. File Server
c. App Server
d. Hyper-V

Answer 4

a. SoFS

d. Hyper-V

Question 5

What is the scenario called when the Hyper-V cluster and the storage are one?

a. Hyper-converged
b. Disaggregated
c. Scale in cluster
d. Combined

Answer 5

a. Hyper-converged

Question 6

What are Storage Spaces Direct?

Answer 6

A technology that makes shared clustered storage directly available to clusters using Storage Space–type technology.

Question 7

Name three requirements for S2D.

Answer 7

• Datacenter Edition
• at least six drives
• no RAID

Question 8

What PowerShell cmdlet allows you to implement S2D?

Answer 8

Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect

Question 9

What are the requirements for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)?

Answer 9

• You find Storage Spaces Direct only in the Datacenter Edition of Windows Server 2016, not the Standard Edition; you can use S2D on a Datacenter Edition server with any of the installation options, including Server Core and Nano Server, as well as the full Desktop Experience.
  A Storage Spaces Direct cluster can consist of as many as 16 nodes, with up to 400 drives.
• Despite the capability of S2D to function with standard components, the servers in the cluster must be able to support large numbers of drives; there must also be support for multiple network interfaces.
• The recommended drive configuration for a node in an S2D cluster is a minimum of six drives, with at least two solid-state drives (SSDs) and at least four hard disk drives (HDDs).
• Whatever the form factor of the drive enclosure, internal or external, there must not be any RAID or any other such disk intelligence.
• For S2D to detect and use the disks, you must initialize them (typically using the GUID Partition Table [GPT] mode); you cannot partition these disks, however.

Question 10

How do you enable Storage Spaces Direct in Powershell?

Answer 10

Step 1. Install Windows Server 2016 on the cluster nodes. Step 2. Update them identically.
Step 3. Add the Failover Clustering feature.
Step 4. Add the Hyper-V node.
Step 5. Create the cluster.

Question 11

What is the syntax in Powershell for enabling Storage Spaces Direct?

Answer 11

new-cluster -name MYCLUSTER1 -node server1,server2,server3,server4 – nostorage
enable-clusterstoragespacesdirect