Just a few fun notes with storage spaces:
I was trying to repair a failed storage spaces disk but didn’t have any spare disks or free slots available and the system was due to be decommissioned so investment was not really wanted.
Genius here thought that adding a iscsi disk and then repairing with that would work and as the system was going to be migrated it wouldn’t be much of an issue.
So i added a 2TB iscsi LUN and added the disk to the pool.
set the faulty disk to retired and then tried to repair the pool.
Error!:
Virtual disk could not be repaired because there is not enough free space in the storage pool.
But i have just added 2TB!?! what is going on? Free space for the pool is showing 2TB but yet i cannot use it to do the repair… Why?
Looking a bit harder i saw that the disk media type is showing as UnSpecified in the Physical Disks. Perhaps this is where the issue is – the iscsi disk is not a supported target and storage spaces doesn’t know what to do with it?
Can i force it to be a supported media type?
I know that when the tiered settings came out we could pretend to have SSD disks so why not give that a try?
Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object FriendlyName, MediaType, Size
find the Disk (PhysicalDisk9 in my case) and set it as media type HDD
Set-PhysicalDisk –FriendlyName PhysicalDisk9 -MediaType HDD
The command issued ok with no confirmation so just reissue the previous command to verify the disk has change media type
Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object FriendlyName, MediaType, Size
If all looks okay, try to start the repair.
