Microsoft Storage Spaces

Storage Spaces is the monitoring module for Microsoft Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). You can monitor performance counters and get inventory reports for your Storage Spaces environments.

You can reach Storage Spaces module monitoring and reports via left menu.

Module Reports

VirtualMetric collects following inventory reports for Storage Spaces module.

Bare Metal Reports

Cluster Reports

Module Counters

VirtualMetric collects following performance counters for Storage Spaces module.

Processor

Memory

Paging File

Network Interface

LogicalDisk

PhysicalDisk

Cluster CSV File System

Cluster CSV Volume Cache

User Permissions

If you want to use non-administrator user for VirtualMetric, you need to add the following changes for the user account in addition to Bare Metal permissions.

Cluster Access Permissions

To enable Windows Failover Cluster monitoring, you need to run the code below:

Requirements

Following Windows features are required to monitor Microsoft Storage Spaces:

You can install required features with following PowerShell command:

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