Windows Server 2012 – Storages spaces

The new features on Storage management for Servers, bring a few new terms with it. This short article should help to clarify what are these features.

Term	Definition
storage pool	A group of physical disks that can be managed together.
virtual disk	A collection of one or more physical disks from a previously created storage pool.
Storage Spaces	A storage subsystem that lets you group disks (drives) into one or more storage pools. You can then create storage spaces from available capacity (free space) in the pool.
storage space	A virtual disk created on a Storage Spaces storage subsystem.

 

Below is the current diagram, from the Storage Management Overview topic on TechNet.