Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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Managing Storage

In this chapter, we cover the following recipes:

• Managing physical disks and volumes
• Managing filesystems
• Exploring providers and the FileSystem provider
• Managing Storage Replica
• Deploying Storage Spaces

Introduction

Windows Server 2022 provides a range of features that allows access to a wide variety of storage and storage devices. Windows supports spinning disks, USB memory sticks, and SSD devices (including NVMe SSD devices).

Before you can use a disk to hold files, you need to create partitions or volumes on the device and format them. When you first initialize a disk, you need to define which partitioning method to use. You have two choices:

• Master Boot Record (MBR)
• GUID Partition Table (GPT)

These days, most PCs ...