Windows 10: Help with Windows 10 Storage Spaces with tiering

Hi,

Hope anybody can help. I'm running in to an error setting up a Storage Space with tiering on my Windows 10 machine (Version 20H2).

I have two 2TB HDD's and one 250GB SSD. I want to create a storage space simple mirror over the two HDD's with the SSD as a fast Tier.

I found this ( Nils Schimmelmann's Blog — Intel Smart Response Technology vs Windows 10... ):

#Variables
$StoragePoolName = "Data Storage Pool"
$TieredSpaceName = "Data Tiered Space"
$ResiliencySetting = "Simple"
$SSDTierName = "SSDTier"
$HDDTierName = "HDDTier"

#List all disks that can be pooled and output in table format (format-table)
Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $True | ft FriendlyName,OperationalStatus,Size,MediaType

#Store all physical disks that can be pooled into a variable, $PhysicalDisks
$PhysicalDisks = (Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $True | Where MediaType -NE UnSpecified)

#Create a new Storage Pool using the disks in variable $PhysicalDisks with a name of My Storage Pool
$SubSysName = (Get-StorageSubSystem).FriendlyName
New-StoragePool -PhysicalDisks $PhysicalDisks -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName $SubSysName -FriendlyName $StoragePoolName

#View the disks in the Storage Pool just created
Get-StoragePool -FriendlyName $StoragePoolName | Get-PhysicalDisk | Select FriendlyName, MediaType

#Create two tiers in the Storage Pool created. One for SSD disks and one for HDD disks
$SSDTier = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName $StoragePoolName -FriendlyName $SSDTierName -MediaType SSD
$HDDTier = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName $StoragePoolName -FriendlyName $HDDTierName -MediaType HDD

#Identify tier sizes within this storage pool
$SSDTierSizes = (Get-StorageTierSupportedSize -FriendlyName $SSDTierName -ResiliencySettingName $ResiliencySetting).TierSizeMax
$HDDTierSizes = (Get-StorageTierSupportedSize -FriendlyName $HDDTierName -ResiliencySettingName $ResiliencySetting).TierSizeMax

#Create a new virtual disk in the pool with a name of TieredSpace using the SSD and HDD tiers
New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName $StoragePoolName -FriendlyName $TieredSpaceName -StorageTiers $SSDTier, $HDDTier -StorageTierSizes $SSDTierSizes, $HDDTierSizes -ResiliencySettingName $ResiliencySetting -AutoWriteCacheSize -AutoNumberOfColumns

Unfortunatly the last coomand results in:

New-VirtualDisk : Not Supported

Extended information:

The storage pool does not have sufficient eligible resources for the creation of the specified virtual disk.

Recommended Actions:

- Choose a combination of FaultDomainAwareness and NumberOfDataCopies (or PhysicalDiskRedundancy) supported by the storage pool.

- Choose a value for NumberOfColumns that is less than or equal to the number of physical disks in the storage fault domain selected for the virtual disk.

Activity ID: {0f76d66c-0046-0006-2f17-770f4600d701}

At line:1 char:1

+ New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName $StoragePoolName -FriendlyNa ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/...SFT_StoragePool) [New-VirtualDisk], CimException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 1,New-VirtualDisk



Anybody got a suggestion?

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Does Windows 10 support tiered storage?

Hi,

Respectfully, this question is not related to servers. The OP is asking if Windows 10 Pro supports tiered storage spaces. I came here with the same question. Does Windows 10 Pro allow for the creation of a tiered storage space with SSDs used to accelerate
the pool?

Please provide an answer related to Windows 10 Pro.

Thank you,

 

Does Windows 10 support tiered storage?

Would also like to see this answered. Does Windows 10 Pro Storage Spaces support tiered storage?

 

Does Windows 10 support tiered storage?

No prob.

These devices aren't susceptible to things like the samsung drives for firmware updates/etc. They have their own control layer and can still be updated and monitored once in the array.

I think till this gets flushed out, I'm just going to run a 2-column, 2-copy, 4 HDD setup and use the flash for other use cases right now. I can always rebuild this later if some kind of active tiering or tiering policies become available.

Let me know if I missed some rule setting somewhere that would control where the data lands.

It could be a difference between windows 10 and server 2012+, but I'm definitely not experiencing what this article shows:

Understand Storage Space Tiering in Windows Server 2012 R2

"Behavior of Storage Space Tiering

Here are the data flows start from the storage pool and virtual disk got provisioned.

• After virtual disk with tiered storage got provisioned, the virtual disk would have certain capacity for each tier (SSD and HDD). At that point of time, both of the tiers are empty. When there is new data coming in, the data would write to SSD Tier
  directly until SSD Tier is full.
• After SSD Tier is full, new incoming random writes will first go to write back cache and then flush to HDD tier. If write back cache is full (be default each virtual disk has only 1GB write back cache), then the data will be written to HDD directly.
• At the same time, Write Back Cache will continue flush data to HDD tier.
• When Write Back Cache is available again, it would handle new incoming random writes."

Thanks,

-- Dave