Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 — Question 164

You have four servers named Server1, Server2, Server3, and Server4 that run Windows Server 2016. Each server has a single 4-TB SATA hard disk.
To each server you attach a new 4-TB SATA hard disk.
You need to create a new storage cluster that uses Storage Spaces Direct. The storage pool must contain all of the new disks.
Which command should you run before you enable Storage Space Direct?

Answer options

• A. Add-ClusterSharedVolume ""Name "Disk 1" ""Cluster Cluster1
• B. New-Cluster ""Name Cluster1 ""Node "˜Server1', "˜Server2', "˜Server3', "˜Server4' -NoStorage
• C. Get-ClusterAvailableDisk ""Cluster Cluster1 | Add-ClusterDisk
• D. New-ClusterStorageEnclosure ""id 1 ""name Cluster1 ""type jbod ""ConnectionString "Server1,Server2,Server3,Server4"

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B, as it creates a new cluster without allocating storage, which is necessary before enabling Storage Spaces Direct. The other options either attempt to add storage to an existing cluster or configure settings that are not relevant at this stage of the setup.