You work as a senior administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single
domain named ABC.com. All servers on the ABC.com network have Windows Server 2012
installed.
You are running a training exercise for junior administrators. You are currently discussing storage
pools.
Which of the following are TRUE with regards to storage pools?
A.
It allows you to group physical disks into one or more containers.
B.
It prevents you from grouping physical disks into one or more containers.
C.
It allows you to easily add storage with minor impact on users.
D.
It allows you to easily add storage without impacting users.
A storage pool is a collection of one or more physical disks that you can use to create virtual disks. You can add to a storage pool any available physical disk that is not formatted or attached to another storage pool.
Adding drives to the storage pool requires no downtime, so there is no impact on end-users.
Storage pools are used by the Storage Spaces feature of Windows 8 and Server 2012.
A and D seem correct. If i have to choose between i will choose A
Definition of Storage Pools as per microsoft “abstracting multiple physical disks into a logical construct with specified capacity. The process is to group selected physical disks into a container, the so-called storage poo – See more at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/yungchou/archive/2012/08/31/windows-server-2012-storage-virtualization-explained.aspx#sthash.x5azpnaT.dpuf”
D does not add storage directly to users, a second step is needed for this, like creating a Vdisk or expanding an existing one using the pool.