Server 2012 Storage Pools, Raid Controller... can the Storage Pool deal with it?
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Before trying it out - I don't find any documentation.
Given that Storage Pools have serious performance problems with parity, and do not rebalance data at the moment when you add discs, my preferred way to use them would be as think provisioned space, ISCSI targets - with every "Pool" running against 1 RAID that comes from a Raid controller (who also introduces SSD read and write caching - another thing missing from Storage Pools).
The main question is - how does a Storage Pool handle the change in the underlying disc that can happen? I mostly talk about OCE (Online Capacity Expansion), where a disc after an expansion suddenly reports a larger space.
Standard Windows allows you to use this additional space (and expand the partitions). How does a storage pool handle it?
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