Powershell disk management

Question

Welcome, I have question about managing disks via Powershell. Is there any possibility to (like in DISKPART) - change type of disk to dynamic, - create mirrored disk, - create raid-5 volume, - extend volume But is it possible to do it using Powershell? I mean I need to do these things by using Powershell, NOT DISKPART, but can't find any solution

Answer 1

Unfortunately, some diskpart functionality is not implemented in PowerShell. You can make disk online, initialize it, create basic volumes (GPT and MBR). Dynamic disks can’t be created using PowerShell. Therefore spanned, striped, mirrored or parity volumes can’t be created without using DISKPART.

Microsoft advertises Storage Spaces instead of “Dynamic disks”. More about pro’s and contra’s - https://serverfault.com/a/883491/382022

Storage Spaces may be fully managed in PowerShell . Here some articles (mostly for server editions, but same commands for client):

“Managing disk with PowerShell” - https://4sysops.com/archives/managing-disks-with-powershell/

Available cmdlets for Storage Spaces - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storagespaces/?view=winserver2012r2-ps&viewFallbackFrom=win10-ps

“Creating a Storage Pool and a Storage Space” - https://lazywinadmin.com/2013/08/ws2012-storage-creating-storage-pool.html

“Automated storage tiering” - https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/configure-a-resilient-volume-on-windows-server-2016-using-storage-spaces