Storage Spaces Direct
Use the following information to troubleshoot your storage spaces direct deployment.
Storage spaces direct. On the screenshot above the physical disk list shows 48 disks on a server which only has 12 disks. Volumes in storage spaces direct provide resiliency to protect against hardware problems such as drive or server failures and to enable continuous availability throughout server maintenance such as software updates. It is microsoft s hyperconverged approach to software defined storage.
Confirm with vendor that the drives are supported for storage spaces direct. It leverages many of the features you know today in windows server such as failover clustering the cluster shared volume csv file system server message block smb 3 and of course storage spaces. In storage spaces direct each node is a storage controller that can utilize direct attached storage in various technologies including spindles ssds or nvme.
In general start with the following steps. The server was reimaged without touching the 12 disks. The server has been part of a 4 node storage spaces direct cluster.
Confirm the make model of ssd is certified for windows server 2016 and windows server 2019 using the windows server catalog. Storage spaces direct is the evolution of storage spaces first introduced in windows server 2012.