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Storage Spaces is a virtualization technology that enables high availability, scalable and flexible storage solutions for virtual or physical environments. It allows to pool disks, of which you can carve out a storage space, which can be then be presented as a virtual disk in Windows. Thus, Storage Spaces provides an effective and cost-efficient solution using affordable hardware. It provides features such as resilient storage, continuous availability along with others.
Dell supports Storage Spaces on PowerVault MD1220 and MD1200 (MD12XX) JBOD enclosures. For detailed information on Dell Support for Storage Spaces refer Deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces on Dell PowerVault. The JBOD monitoring hotfix from Microsoft -KB2913766 for Storage Spaces allows added JBOD health monitoring.
You can enumerate the Enclosure details using the following PowerShell command -
Here is a part of the output-
In order to get hardware specific information you would need to execute an additional script that Dell has created for ease of data access. This article goes over how you can retrieve Dell specific Enclosure information including the Service Tag data. The PowerShell Script will enable you to also retrieve JBOD details including the EMM and Power Supply part numbers, EMM firmware versions, and enclosure service tag. Figure 1 below gives a pictorial view of the back panel features of the MD1200 and MD1220 which you can correlate with the information that you retrieve.
Attached is the PowerShell script that allows you to get the hardware specific information. This script executes in Windows Server 2012 R2. Once you have saved it on your system, make the folder in which you have saved it as your current folder and run the script as follows. Here, it is saved in the documents folder:
