Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Storage Spaces and Storage Pools
Storage Spaces is a new Windows Server 2012 service that enables the pooling of storage on a server to deliver essentially virtual disks to the server operating system. Unlike VHD or VHDX virtual disk, which is a file on single volume, and unlike a striped or fault-tolerant volume that requires several dynamic disks, Storage Spaces leverages storage pools and allows administrators to create and present a single virtual disk that can reside on a single or several windows disks. Storage pools can be easily extended to include new disks and can be created in fault tolerance or resilient configurations. Another great feature is that a storage pool can be configured as a thin provisioned pool that will grow as necessary. ...
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