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Creating a storage pool

Creating a storage pool - Hyper-V Tutorial

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Creating a storage pool

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- [Instructor] The first step in creating a highly available Hyper-V deployment is to set up the storage that we're going to use. Now in this case, I'm going to configure Windows Server to act as a storage server. But if you have a different storage solution, you're certainly free to use it. So as you can see, I've got the server manager open. And what I'm going to do is click on file and storage services. From here, what I want to do is click on disks. And you'll notice that this particular machine has five disks labeled zero, one, two, three and four. And let me just take a step back for a second and open up File Explorer. If I open up File Explorer and click on this PC, you can see that only one disk is listed. There's also a DVD drive, but there's only one hard disk. That's the C drive. Now, in this case, drive zero is the C drive, which means that disks one, two, three and four aren't showing up within the File Explorer. Let me go ahead and close this out. And if we take another…

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