After the installation of ws2012, I want to move my whole storage to the storage pool with deduplication-enabled.Because I do not have a lot of drives, I planned to do this process by moving files from one drive to other drive and repeat this again and
again. My goal is to move my most of files to a storage space created by 3 x 3tB drives in parity.
At first, I have two full 3tB drives and an empty 3tB drive. Therefore,I planned to make a small storage space to take a part of these files first, then expand it after I get one more free 3tB drive. As a result, I planned to use three vhdx to create a virtuall storage pool. The problem here is if I do this directly by using disk management, it is not easy to replace the third vhdx by a physical disk when that third vhdx is already in this physical disk. Therefore, I use 3 iscsi targets with 3 vhdx to create the storage pool. In this case, I can disable the target freedomly.
However, I make a mistake in this step. I create the vhdx for just 930 GB with dynamically expanding for the targets. After I move 1.8 tB files from other disks which are impossible to do recovery to the pool, I disable the vhdx and the target then expand the maximum size of the vhdx one by one. But after I enable them, the system can just recognize one disk is in connection in the storage pool interface. I have tried so many times. The storage pool just can recognize the first disk I enable. In the disk management, the disks used in storage pool should disappear. But now, all three of them show in the disk management interface all with a 930 gB partition and a 450 gB partition.
Anybody can help me to rescue this storage space?
At first, I have two full 3tB drives and an empty 3tB drive. Therefore,I planned to make a small storage space to take a part of these files first, then expand it after I get one more free 3tB drive. As a result, I planned to use three vhdx to create a virtuall storage pool. The problem here is if I do this directly by using disk management, it is not easy to replace the third vhdx by a physical disk when that third vhdx is already in this physical disk. Therefore, I use 3 iscsi targets with 3 vhdx to create the storage pool. In this case, I can disable the target freedomly.
However, I make a mistake in this step. I create the vhdx for just 930 GB with dynamically expanding for the targets. After I move 1.8 tB files from other disks which are impossible to do recovery to the pool, I disable the vhdx and the target then expand the maximum size of the vhdx one by one. But after I enable them, the system can just recognize one disk is in connection in the storage pool interface. I have tried so many times. The storage pool just can recognize the first disk I enable. In the disk management, the disks used in storage pool should disappear. But now, all three of them show in the disk management interface all with a 930 gB partition and a 450 gB partition.
Anybody can help me to rescue this storage space?