WAC and CSV

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The workflow for creating a disk in Windows Admin Center for a new Cluster Shared Volume would be:

  • Click on the FlashArray Storage Manager and select the FlashArray.

  • Click on the Volumes extension and create a new Volume.

  • Click on the new Volume and click on Host Groups. Add it to the Host Group of the Hyper-V Cluster.

  • Connect to a node in the cluster in Server Manager in Windows Admin Center, select Storage. Select the new disk, it will be uninitialized and offline.

  • Click Initialize and GPT.

  • Highlight the new disk that is initialized and click Create volume. A drive letter is required even though it will be removed when making it a CSV. The file system must be NTFS. Click Submit to create the Volume.

  • Use Failover Cluster Manager or PowerShell to add the disk to the cluster because Both Cluster Manager and Server Manager in Windows Admin Center lack the functionality to add a disk to the Cluster.

    • Get-ClusterAvailableDisk | Add-ClusterDisk
    • Add-ClusterSharedVolume -Name "Cluster Disk 3"

    • If more than 1 disk is available, do this one step at a time with enumeration cmdlets to ensure the correct disk is chosen. Add-ClusterSharedVolume will fail if an NTFS partition does not exist on the disk.

    • You could stop at Add-ClusterDisk and then connect to the Hyper-V Cluster in Cluster Manager in Windows Admin Center as it has the ability to promote a cluster disk to a CSV. New functionality is added to Server Manager and Cluster Manager so be on the lookout for the ability to create a new cluster disk in the future.

Windows Admin Center (WAC) 2311 has a bug where if the interface is reloaded, or if you close the browser and reconnect, all of the added FlashArray connections are removed. If this happens, add the FlashArrays and continue working. To prevent this issue, use an older version of Windows Admin Center. Due to a change in version 2 of WAC moving from the .NET Framework to .NET CORE, all current extensions will not function. Pure will release an updated extension utilizing .NET CORE and an upgrade to Angular in early 2025.