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Stophr
Asked: 2019-09-12 05:14:10 +0800 CST

How to Remove a Perfectly Good Disk S2D Storage Spaces Direct so it can be used by Operating System?

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I am running a 2019 S2D Cluster with 4 SSD's and 8 spindles per chassis. There were 2 addl SSDs (1 of which is used for OS, the other is unused at the moment). When setting up the S2D cluster it grabbed all available disk as expected. I went to remove one of the SSDs from the pool and everything seemed to work, however when I ran get-disk I could not find the disk I removed from the S2D pool. Below are my steps...

Disable Auto-pooling on Storage Subsystem, just for good measure

Get-StorageSubSystem Cluster* | Set-StorageHealthSetting -Name "System.Storage.PhysicalDisk.AutoPool.Enabled" -Value False

Retire the disks in question

Get-PhysicalDisk | ? Model -like "250" | ? DeviceID -ne 0 | Set-PhysicalDisk -Usage Retired

Repair the virtual disks (this is a new cluster so there is only the performance metrics on it)

Get-VirtualDisk | Repair-VirtualDisk -Verbose

Check to make sure the job is complete

Get-StorageJob

Remove the Physical Disks

Get-StoragePool S2D* | Remove-PhysicalDisk -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk | ? Model -like "250" | ? DeviceID -ne 0)

Verify the disks are removed from the pool

Get-StoragePool S2D* | Get-PhysicalDisk | ? Model -like "250" | ? DeviceID -ne 0

The disks are not in the S2D pool now we should be able to run Get-Disk and see them right?

Get-Disk

My results show the OS drive and the S2D volume for the ClusterPerformanceHistory...

OS Drive and ClusterPerformanceHistory Drives

Any help would be most appreciated!!!

storage-spaces-direct

1 Answers

  1. Here’s the single step left to do:

    Set-ClusterStorageSpacesDirectDisk -PhysicalDisk $disk -CanBeClaimed:$false
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