Storage space Tering feature

Customer would like to use Storage space tiering feature of Windows Server 2012 R2
However, the server host has a hardware raid card inside it.
Could we still enable Storage space tiering feature in such scenario? Thanks.

Hi Thomashk23,
If you want to enable storage space with other disk not contain RAID disk , I think it is supported .
Please refer to the similar thread :
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b1dee875-9407-43cc-a3e4-a2b4e68494e7/extend-storage-pool-with-new-space-from-raid?forum=winserver8gen
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We know Windows Storage Server could be storage of VMware.
Could VMware also adopt Storage Space feature when using Windows Storage Server?

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I'm a little unclear about the question.
Do you mean you are going to install a VM in VMware as Windows Storage Server and setup Storage Space on it?
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Even if this is by design, it can certainly be improved.
A typical SOHO use case is a drive enclosure with four drive slots.
The desirable workflow for extending capacity when exhausted would be
Temporarily add an external USB drive to the pool
Retire the smallest drive (which would move data to other drives)
Remove the smallest drive
Add a large drive
Retire the temporary external drive.
It's possible to do this with a Mirror space (but a bit tricky to figure out how). For Simple it's not possible, not sure about Parity.
I know you guys are tired of hearing of Drive Extender, but this is the silver bullet SOHO use case for DE. It's no big deal for SMB where you presumably can easily extend the number of drive slots in your server room.

Storage spaces can only use whole drives

One of the features that I was really interested in with WS2012E is storage spaces as it replaces the old driver extender of WHS v1. Having now installed WS2012E onto my WHS2011 box I am bit staggered to find that it can only use whole drives. My box came
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for WHS2011 allows for a storage space to be made up from this type of set up. So we seem to be going backwards.
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I note that you did this with Windows Server 2012 Essentials. I cannot seem to do this with Windows 2012 Standard. I have two 500 GB disks and 40GB of the first disk, PhysicalDisk0 is partitioned for the OS. Nothing I do makes PhysicalDisk0
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on PhysicalDisk0 with 423 GB on PhysicalDisk1. I would then allocate the leftover 43 GB on PhysicalDisk1 as a 'scratch' disk. I have tried leaving everything unallocated and have tried all variations of creating volumes and virtual disks, but nothing
I do makes a difference. I found other threads related to this issue which indicated there was a flaw in the 2012 GUI and that this process could be done via Powershell. However, there seems to be a mix of Windows 8 and Windows 2012 in these threads
and, apparently the Powershell commands I've found apply to 8 and not 2012, as I get invalid command errors when I try to use them.
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How do I free up storage space on a Macbook air?

How do I free up storage space on a Macbook air? My e-mail seems to be taking up the most space?

For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article. If the Storage display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of the data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
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Back up all data now.
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Install the app you downloaded in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
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Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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