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Server 2016 how to find the physical disk ID of Storage Spaces pool disks

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017 1:21 AM | 1 vote

So...I've noticed something that feels like a step backwards from 2012R2 to 2016.

In 2012R2,  the disk enumeration value used to be shown with my disks in the "Physical Disks" pane of the "Storage Pools" management view. 2016 appears to have gotten "smarter" in that it is recognizing my disks are in an enclosure, and is providing me with adapter and port values.

The downside is that when the event log entry says "\Device\Hardisk8\DR8" I can no longer easily tell which disk is actually having a problem. I'm digging through powershell right now, I assume there must be a way to read the enumerations there, somewhere, but since pool disks are masked from the disk manager, I can't get the value there either.

If anyone knows off hand what it is, that'd be handy.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017 1:32 AM âś…Answered

Well I did find a way to do it, I need to figure out how to process all the disks in the system, but the basic way I found:

issue Get-PhysicalDisk to get a list of all the disks with some properties listed, pick the disk you are interested in and then use the friendly name or serial number to get the rest:

Get-PhysicalDisk -SerialNumber 'Serial here' | Get-PhysicalDiskStorageNodeView

If there's a better/quicker way, I'd still be interested.

Edit:

Turns out I did make it over complicated, I just had to use Get-Member to see what I could read from a Get-PhysicalDisk return. This works much better for what I was after:

Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object -Property FriendlyName, DeviceID

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 5:34 AM

Hi MasterChiefmas,

In addition, you could follow the articles below to monitor the health of your storage space.

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2014/09/10/evaluate-storage-health.aspx

Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/san/2012/09/26/determining-disk-health-using-windows-powershell-on-windows-server-2012-and-windows-8/

Best Regards,

Mary

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