Welcome to the Cloud Day 2—in this series you will learn about some slightly more advanced topics in the public cloud. We’re going to go...
Cloud Day 2–Understanding Cloud Storage
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Storage
More diskinfo
Yesterday I showed how to get the disk, partition and logical disk information using CIM. Today I want to show more diskinfo techniques. This time...
Linking disks, partitions and logical drives
A question of the forums was asking about discovering disk information. They were trying to pipe the output of Get-WmiObject into another...
New plugin for hard disk SMART monitoring
Ever wonder if your hard drive was trying to tell you something? Well, it just might be. S.M.A.R.T. has been around forever it seems but it largely...
Get-PhysicalDisk options
These are the Get-PhysicalDisk options for identifying the disk you want -UniqueId <string> -ObjectId <string> -FriendlyName...
Diskpart and PowerShell – part 6: Multiple partitions on a disk
So far we’ve looked at creating a single partition on a disk. This time we’ll look at how you can create multiple partitions on a disk. The are good...
Diskpart and PowerShell – part4: Remove a partition
So far you’ve seen how to create and modify partitions and volumes. Its now time to look at how you remove a partition. Mount the test VHD Get-VHD...
Diskpart and PowerShell–part 4: Expand a volume
Let’s create a new disk and mount it New-VHD -Path C:testTest1.vhdx -Dynamic -SizeBytes 20GB Get-VHD -Path C:testTest1.vhdx | Mount-VHD...
Mass dismount VHDs
I’m going to be creating, using and discarding a number of VHDs for my diskpart and PowerShell series. When I have a number of them mounted I want a...
Diskpart and PowerShell–part 3: Initialize disk and create volume
Last time we created a virtual disk and mounted it. In this post we’ll initialize the disk and create a volume. Start by remounting the disk Get-VHD...
Diskpart and PowerShell–part 2: Create a virtual disk
Before we start digging into the diskpart/Storage module functionality we need a disk to practice on. I don’t recommend using your machine’s system...