Configuring Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces is an incredibly cool technology that isn't marketed very much; it just does its job and does it well. How many times have you caught yourself stuck between a rock and a hard place because you are running out of room on a single hard drive on one of your servers? I have plenty of times, especially working with technologies like RDS, which may contain a lot of user data all stored on the system drive. In most current server hardware, it is easy to add multiple hard drives, but not always easy to decide how to partition and volume those drives so that you don't run out of space on C: while having 200 GB of free space on D:.
These kinds of situations are where Storage Spaces can save a lot of time and headaches. What if you didn't have to worry about what size hard disks you were running as your primary drive, secondary drive, and so on? What if you could lump them all together and utilize the storage out of one big bucket, or...