•
HPE StoreEasy management console
• HPE Smart Storage Administrator
WARNING:
Do not use the Windows Server Manager to create storage pools on a HPE StoreEasy 1X60 system.
This would create a storage spaces RAID configuration which is not a supported configuration on the
HPE StoreEasy systems.
Instructions for creating the storage pools using these tools are in this administrator guide under the topic
of
. After the storage pool(s) are created than the next step would be to create the
logical elements starting with establishing logical partitions.
Logical Elements
Virtual Disks
: After establishing the storage arrays then a virtual disk configuration can be created which will
establish the logical partition configuration for the designated storage pool.
The virtual disk creates the logical partition using the storage pool selected. Instructions for creating the virtual
disk are in this administrator guide under the topic of
. Once the virtual disk is created
then a volume can be established.
Volume
: When a volume is created it establishes the file system layout to be used for storing file information
on the volume. There are two file system types that can be used with the Windows operating system - NTFS
or ReFS. When selecting the file system to use there are some feature sets that are only available on a
specific file system type. Take the time to evaluate what best meets your use case before implementing. You
can have different file systems on different volumes
The key features of ReFS are as follows:
• Metadata integrity with checksums.
• Integrity streams providing optional user data integrity.
• Allocate on write transactional model for robust disk updates (also known as copy on write).
• Large volume, file and directory sizes.
• Storage pooling and virtualization makes file system creation and management easy.
• Data striping for performance (bandwidth can be managed) and redundancy for fault tolerance.
• Disk scrubbing for protection against latent disk errors.
• Resiliency to corruptions with "salvage" for maximum volume availability in all cases.
• Shared storage pools across machines for additional failure tolerance and load balancing (applies only to
storage spaces).
However, ReFS does not have all of the feature sets that may be of importance in your environment. NTFS
may still be a more appropriate option. In the following table is a list of what is available based on whether you
select NTFS or ReFS.
File System Feature
NTFS
ReFS
Supports Case-sensitive filenames Yes
Yes
Preserves Case of filenames
Yes
Yes
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System Architecture
