Did you know that you can manage disks, partitions and volumes using Powershell? Microsoft released a lot of cmdlet in order to facilitate handling of disks.
With virtualization, you can easily add disk to your server, but you have to create the volume yourself. I wrote a script that you can integrate in your process, runbooks or others.
Disks initialization
First thing to do, is to prepare disks to host volume. We need to set disks online and to disable Read only.
try { #Set all disks, except the first disk, to online and writable Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| Set-Disk -IsOffline $False Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| Set-Disk -isReadOnly $False #Initialize all disks Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle GPT }catch{ Write-Host $_.Exception.Message } |
Volume
Once disks are ready, we need to create, and format volume.
try { #Create Partition on all disk, auto assign letter and use maximum size Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| New-Partition -AssignDriveLetter -UseMaximumSize #Get all partitions and format them Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| Get-Partition |?{$_.type -like "Basic"}| Format-Volume -Confirm:$false }catch{ Write-Host $_.Exception.Message } |
Remote
If you want to execute these command on a remote host, it is possible. We will use the cmdlet Invoke-Command
try { #Set all disks, except the first disk, to online and writable Invoke-Command -ComputerName $lServerName -ScriptBlock {Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| Set-Disk -IsOffline $False} Invoke-Command -ComputerName $lServerName -ScriptBlock {Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| Set-Disk -isReadOnly $False} #Initialize all disks Invoke-Command -ComputerName $lServerName -ScriptBlock {Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle GPT} #Create Partition on all disk, auto assign letter and use maximum size Invoke-Command -ComputerName $lServerName -ScriptBlock {Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| New-Partition -AssignDriveLetter -UseMaximumSize} #Get all partitions and format them Invoke-Command -ComputerName $lServerName -ScriptBlock {Get-Disk | ?{$_.number -ne 0}| Get-Partition |?{$_.type -like "Basic"}| Format-Volume -Confirm:$false } }catch{ Write-Host $_.Exception.Message } |
More
You can get more information about Disk Management cmdlet here.
