Storage Spaces Direct dashboard

Today I release a special Christmas gift for you. For some time, I’m writing a PowerShell script to generate a Storage Spaces Direct dashboard. This dashboard enables you to validate each important setting for a S2D cluster.

I decided to write this PowerShell script to avoid to run hundred of PowerShell cmdlet and check manually returned value. With this dashboard, you get almost all the information you needs.

Where can I download the script

The script is available on github. You can download the documentation and the script from this link. Please read the documentation before running the script.

Storage Spaces Direct dashboard

The below screenshot shows you a dashboard example. This dashboard has been generated from my 2-node cluster in lab.

Roadmap

I plan to improve the script next year by adding the support for disaggregated S2D deployment model and to add information such as the cache / capacity ratio and the reservation space.

Special thanks

I’d like to thanks Dave Kawula, Charbel Nemnom, Kristopher Turner and Ben Thomas. Thanks for helping me to resolve most of the issues by running the script on your S2D infrastructures

About Romain Serre

Romain Serre works in Lyon as a Senior Consultant. He is focused on Microsoft Technology, especially on Hyper-V, System Center, Storage, networking and Cloud OS technology as Microsoft Azure or Azure Stack. He is a MVP and he is certified Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE Server Infrastructure & Private Cloud), on Hyper-V and on Microsoft Azure (Implementing a Microsoft Azure Solution).

10 comments

  1. Why would we want to use a discontinued product, S2D? That doesn’t make sense.

  2. Awesome script. Need to dive into some of the important settings that are on RED in our case, but it certainly helps. Things that you don’t notice very easy on a day to day basis. Like a Firewall that is disabled on a single node in the Cluster 😉 Spotted that one right away.

    Great work !!

  3. … hi, I’ve tried to implement your Audit-S2D script, but got some problems while executing:
    thrown errors: “Ampersand not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use”
    same failure for some “<" charakters too.

    Have I missed something or does it not work with new powershell installations (W2K19)?

  4. Thomas Sejer Hansen

    Hi.

    It looks great but I can’t make it work. Im getting a lot of errors like:

    The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use; wrap an ampersand in double quot
    ation marks (“&”) to pass it as part of a string.
    At F:\Temp\Audit-S2D.ps1:173 char:190

    Best regards.
    Thomas Hansen

  5. … found the solution, its quite simple:
    you have to clone the whole directory with github, copy the script from your gitclone to your server (not he whole gitclone, only the script) and it works well.

    When you try to get the script via clipboard, the failure with the ampersand will show up …

    cHIa

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