{"id":2054,"date":"2017-05-10T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/jonathan\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2017-05-10T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:14:06","slug":"using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While working through my new demos for SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 I had to rebuild my hyper-converged SQL Failover Cluster environment using local storage and Storage Spaces Direct for the cluster shared storage instead of configuring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/building-a-completely-free-playground-for-sql-server-2-setting-up-active-directory-and-the-iscsi-virtual-san\/\" target=\"_blank\">iSCSI SAN<\/a> environment or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/failover-clustering-without-a-san-sql-server-2012-and-smb-for-shared-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\">SMB File Share<\/a> as I have done in the past.&nbsp; However, there is a catch with the virtual disks under VMware Workstation by default, they don\u2019t expose the SerialNumber which is required for S2D to be able to use the drives in the pool.&nbsp; In PowerShell, Get-PhysicalDisk on a new VMware Workstation VM looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"688\" height=\"147\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To fix the issue, the VMX file for the VM must be modified to add the following line:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>disk.EnableUUID=&#8221;true&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Once the VM is rebooted, the SerialNumber is populated in Powershell for Get-PhysicalDisk, and S2D will be able to use the disks in the storage pool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image_thumb-1.png\" width=\"821\" height=\"147\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working through my new demos for SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 I had to rebuild my hyper-converged SQL Failover Cluster environment using local storage and Storage Spaces Direct for the cluster shared storage instead of configuring a iSCSI SAN environment or SMB File Share as I have done in the past.&nbsp; However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,53,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-a-test-environment","category-sql-server-2016","category-virtualization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation - Jonathan Kehayias<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation - Jonathan Kehayias\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While working through my new demos for SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 I had to rebuild my hyper-converged SQL Failover Cluster environment using local storage and Storage Spaces Direct for the cluster shared storage instead of configuring a iSCSI SAN environment or SMB File Share as I have done in the past.&nbsp; However, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jonathan Kehayias\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-10T22:14:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image_thumb.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jonathan Kehayias\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jonathan Kehayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jonathan Kehayias\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/01c10d94f3648654ef706d5e6305f69c\"},\"headline\":\"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-10T22:14:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/image_thumb.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Building a Test Environment\",\"SQL Server 2016\",\"Virtualization\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/\",\"name\":\"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation - Jonathan Kehayias\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/image_thumb.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-10T22:14:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/01c10d94f3648654ef706d5e6305f69c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/image_thumb.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/image_thumb.png\",\"width\":688,\"height\":147},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Building a Test Environment\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/category\\\/building-a-test-environment\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/\",\"name\":\"Jonathan Kehayias - The Rambling DBA\",\"description\":\"The Rambling DBA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.sqlskills.com\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/01c10d94f3648654ef706d5e6305f69c\",\"name\":\"Jonathan Kehayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/86630e27f5deecc5c393ea57fc7c3b6a068949f4fd6b5309f81de5a276f12855?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/86630e27f5deecc5c393ea57fc7c3b6a068949f4fd6b5309f81de5a276f12855?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/86630e27f5deecc5c393ea57fc7c3b6a068949f4fd6b5309f81de5a276f12855?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jonathan Kehayias\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/3.209.169.194\\\/blogs\\\/jonathan\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation - Jonathan Kehayias","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation - Jonathan Kehayias","og_description":"While working through my new demos for SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 I had to rebuild my hyper-converged SQL Failover Cluster environment using local storage and Storage Spaces Direct for the cluster shared storage instead of configuring a iSCSI SAN environment or SMB File Share as I have done in the past.&nbsp; However, [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/","og_site_name":"Jonathan Kehayias","article_published_time":"2017-05-10T22:14:06+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image_thumb.png","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Jonathan Kehayias","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jonathan Kehayias","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/"},"author":{"name":"Jonathan Kehayias","@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/#\/schema\/person\/01c10d94f3648654ef706d5e6305f69c"},"headline":"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation","datePublished":"2017-05-10T22:14:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/"},"wordCount":159,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image_thumb.png","articleSection":["Building a Test Environment","SQL Server 2016","Virtualization"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/","url":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/","name":"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation - Jonathan Kehayias","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image_thumb.png","datePublished":"2017-05-10T22:14:06+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/#\/schema\/person\/01c10d94f3648654ef706d5e6305f69c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image_thumb.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image_thumb.png","width":688,"height":147},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/using-storage-spaces-direct-s2d-on-vmware-workstation\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Building a Test Environment","item":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/category\/building-a-test-environment\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Using Storage Spaces Direct S2D on VMware Workstation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/","name":"Jonathan Kehayias - The Rambling DBA","description":"The Rambling DBA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/#\/schema\/person\/01c10d94f3648654ef706d5e6305f69c","name":"Jonathan Kehayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86630e27f5deecc5c393ea57fc7c3b6a068949f4fd6b5309f81de5a276f12855?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86630e27f5deecc5c393ea57fc7c3b6a068949f4fd6b5309f81de5a276f12855?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/86630e27f5deecc5c393ea57fc7c3b6a068949f4fd6b5309f81de5a276f12855?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jonathan Kehayias"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/jonathan"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}