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S2DCartographer

S2D Cartographer

Welcome to S2DCartographer — the Storage Spaces Direct analysis, visualization, and reporting tool for Azure Local and Windows Server clusters.

Planning a new cluster?

Use Azure Local Surveyor to model capacity, compute, and workloads before you deploy. Run S2DCartographer on the running cluster to validate what was actually built. Surveyor plans; Cartographer verifies.

What Is This?

S2DCartographer scans a live cluster and maps your entire S2D storage stack — from raw physical disks through the resiliency layers all the way down to actual usable VM capacity. It renders what you find into publication-quality HTML, Word, PDF, and Excel reports, SVG diagrams for every stage, and a structured JSON snapshot for downstream tooling.

Key Capabilities

Capability Description
Capacity waterfall 7 stages from raw physical to final usable capacity
TiB/TB dual-display Every capacity value shows both binary and decimal units
Reserve validation Live comparison of actual vs. recommended reserve space
Health assessments 11 pass/fail checks with remediation guidance, including thin provisioning risk
What-if modeling Model capacity impact of adding nodes, disks, or changing resiliency from a JSON snapshot — no live cluster required
Reports HTML, Word, PDF, Excel — ready for customer deliverables
Data export JSON snapshot + per-collector CSVs for downstream tooling
Diagrams SVG waterfall, disk-node map, pool layout, resiliency views

Quick Start

# Install from PSGallery
Install-Module S2DCartographer -Scope CurrentUser

# Connect and run everything in one command
Import-Module S2DCartographer
Invoke-S2DCartographer -ClusterName "my-cluster" -Credential (Get-Credential) -Format Html -OutputDirectory "C:\Reports\"