Users Guide

New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName “tierPool1” -FriendlyName

“tierPool1_HDD” –MediaType HDD

Storage tiers are sized for each VD when the VD is created. You can size the SSD and HDD tiers in the GUI

during VD creation or by using PowerShell.

Run the following PowerShell command for creating a VD using existing storage tiers.

New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName <vdName> -StoragePoolFriendlyName <poolName> -

ProvisioningType Fixed -ResiliencySettingName <Simple| Mirror| Parity> -

PhysicalDiskRedundancy <1|2> -StorageTiers <ssdTierObject, hddTierObject> -

StorageTierSizes <ssdTierSize , hddTierSize>