Creating a Storage Space

Creating a Storage Space

Preparing an Ultra-Fast Storage Space

Now we need to create a Storage Space. A Storage Space is a lot like a RAID. We are going to merge two of our SSDs into one big one.

First click on Start and type Computer Management.
Click Open

Click Disk Management nested under Storage. If you see a dialog about uninitialized disks, just click OK

In the image above you can see that I have a total of 5 disks.  Disk 0 is my system disk so I can't merge it, but I can merge any two or more of the remaining four drives into one large drive.  Make note of the disk numbers you will be merging for the next step.  You can close this window for now.

Creating a Storage Space

Click your start menu and type Storage Spaces.
Click Open 


Click Create a new pool and storage space
 

Click Yes on the User Account Control dialog.



Select the drives you want to add to the storage space and click Create Pool.


1. Select a drive letter.  We recommend V for VMs, but any unused drive letter is acceptable.

2. For resiliency type, choose Simple (no resiliency).

3. Click Create storage space.



You should see a screen similar to the one below, showing your active Storage spaces and the status.  It should say OK as the status of your newly created storage space.



Open a new Windows Explorer window and click on This PC, you will now see your really large V drive ready for use.

 

 Now create the following two folders on your 'V' drive.

  • VMs - for storing your VMs
  • REPOSITORY - for storing downloads and installation files we might need like a Windows ISO file, etc.

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