Hello everyone.
I have two nodes configuration for Storage Spaces Direct.
The servers were built following the R730xd Dell Matrix Compatibility with S2D with certified components, firmwares and drivers.
Everything goes fine with its configuration until I enabled S2D and checked the Storage Tiers created:It only created Capacity Storage Tier. My current configuration per server (both identical in every component) is:
- Cache: 4 x SSD Dell Enterprise 1.98 TB
- Storage: 8 x HDD Dell Enterprise 8 TB
The cache:storage ratio is 1:2 - the one suggested by Microsoft in this scenario.
Enabling S2D shows in the final validation report that the SSD's are marked as "Disk Used for Cache memory" with an asterisk. Also after creating the pool all the disk are selected and SSD's are marked as Journal, getting all the free space for themselves, and HDD's are marked as Auto-Select with almost all the free space available.
But after this I have checked the Storage Tiers created and only Capacity is showing. No Performance Storage Tier was created for the cache SSD's. I tried creating it manually but no free space is available for this storage tier when trying to create a new virtual disk.
PS C:\Users\xx> get-storagetier -friendlyname capacity, performance | fl * Usage : Data ProvisioningType : Fixed AllocationUnitSize : Auto MediaType : HDD FaultDomainAwareness : StorageScaleUnit ColumnIsolation : PhysicalDisk NumberOfColumns : Auto NumberOfGroups : 1 ParityLayout : ObjectId : {1}\\S2D_CLUSTER\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StorageTier.Object 806d0-73d2-4312-9a54-7238280672d4}:ST:{a39a3509-81e6-49f5-81a5-3e3228700390}{3da1103b- 4-8dc5-daab62bb5584}" PassThroughClass : PassThroughIds : PassThroughNamespace : PassThroughServer : UniqueId : {3da1103b-921a-4ef4-8dc5-daab62bb5584} AllocatedSize : 0 Description : FootprintOnPool : 0 FriendlyName : Capacity Interleave : 262144 NumberOfDataCopies : 2 PhysicalDiskRedundancy : 1 ResiliencySettingName : Mirror Size : 0 PSComputerName : CimClass : ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage:MSFT_StorageTier CimInstanceProperties : {ObjectId, PassThroughClass, PassThroughIds, PassThroughNamespace...} CimSystemProperties : Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimSystemProperties Usage : Data ProvisioningType : Fixed AllocationUnitSize : Auto MediaType : SSD FaultDomainAwareness : StorageScaleUnit ColumnIsolation : PhysicalDisk NumberOfColumns : Auto NumberOfGroups : 1 ParityLayout : ObjectId : {1}\\S2D_CLUSTER\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StorageTier.Object 806d0-73d2-4312-9a54-7238280672d4}:ST:{a39a3509-81e6-49f5-81a5-3e3228700390}{c31c5599- 6-ae68-dbcb568704df}" PassThroughClass : PassThroughIds : PassThroughNamespace : PassThroughServer : UniqueId : {c31c5599-f6e4-4b76-ae68-dbcb568704df} AllocatedSize : 0 Description : FootprintOnPool : 0 FriendlyName : Performance Interleave : 262144 NumberOfDataCopies : 2 PhysicalDiskRedundancy : 1 ResiliencySettingName : Mirror Size : 0 PSComputerName : CimClass : ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage:MSFT_StorageTier CimInstanceProperties : {ObjectId, PassThroughClass, PassThroughIds, PassThroughNamespace...} CimSystemProperties : Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimSystemProperties
Could anyone help me out with this issue?
Thanks in advance.