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S2D: Change model or manuctured for vhdx

Jorge Martín San José 6 Reputation points
2021-08-24T15:29:50.737+00:00

Hi Everyone

I'm installing a virtual lab for S2D in HyperV

I'm interested on cache configuration. I need change the model in mi Virtual Disk.

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Is this possible to do?

Regards

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  1. kholienchieh 0 Reputation points MVP
    2026-05-06T02:14:35.7166667+00:00

    In our lab environment, we have a lab that turning selective drives as Cache using PS.

    The command example as per below:

    Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object Size -le 100GB

    Get-PhysicalDisk | Where-Object Size -le 100GB | Set-PhysicalDisk -Usage Journal

    ** We have some drives created as 100GB, and we converted those 100GB drives as cache (Journal).
    ** For your case, you can filter the driver using their UniqueID.

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  2. Jorge Martín San José 6 Reputation points
    2022-10-04T19:18:59.05+00:00

    Good

    I am not asking how to enable a s2d cluster.
    I am asking how to modify the model of a vhdx disk to be able to perform advanced configurations and tuning with the s2d cache.

    Does anyone know if it is possible to change the model of a vhdx disk?

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  3. Limitless Technology 40,101 Reputation points
    2021-08-25T10:01:45.283+00:00

    Hello Jorge J,

    Thank you for your question.

    You can deploy a hyper-converged S2D cluster by provisioning a Hyper-V cluster and enable S2D from existing Hyper-V hosts, or by provisioning from bare-metal servers.

    You can't currently enable S2D in a hyper-converged deployment on a Hyper-V cluster deployed from bare metal computers with the Nano operating system.

    Note

    You must enable S2D before adding the storage provider to VMM. To enable S2D, go to General Configuration > Specify the cluster name and host group and select the Enable Storage Spaces Direct option

    After you enable a cluster with S2D, VMM does the following:

    The File Server role and the Failover Clustering feature is enabled.
    Storage replica and data deduplication is enabled.
    The cluster is optionally validated and created.
    S2D is enabled, and a storage array is created with the same name you provide in the wizard.
    If you use PowerShell to create a hyper-converged cluster, the pool and the storage tier is automatically created with the Enable-ClusterS2D autoconfig=true option.

    For more information you can visit this link:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/vmm/s2d-hyper-converged?view=sc-vmm-2019

    If the reply was helpful,please don't forget to upvote or accept as answer.

    Thanks,

    Aradhya C

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