This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Get-StorageTier', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Gets storage tiers on Storage Spaces subsystems.
Get-StorageTier [[-FriendlyName] <String[]>] [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-MediaType <MediaType[]>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-StorageTier [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-MediaType <MediaType[]>] [-StoragePool <CimInstance>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-StorageTier [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-MediaType <MediaType[]>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] [-VirtualDisk <CimInstance>] [<CommonParameters>]
Get-StorageTier [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-MediaType <MediaType[]>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] [-UniqueId <String[]>] [<CommonParameters>]
The Get-StorageTier gets storage tiers on Storage Spaces subsystems. Storage tiers are physical disks that are grouped by characteristics, for example, solid-state drives
(SSD) and hybrid hard drives (HHD).
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New-StorageTier
Remove-StorageTier
Resize-StorageTier
Set-StorageTier
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Example 1: Get a storage tier
PS C:\>Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName "StoreTier01"
This command gets the storage tier named StoreTier01.
Example 2: Get a storage tier from a storage pool
PS C:\> Get-StoragePool -StoragePoolFriendlyName "StorePool01" | Get-StorageTier
This command gets the object that contains the storage pool named StorePool01, and then passes the object to the Get-StorageTier cmdlet by using the pipeline operator. The
Get-StorageTier cmdlet gets the storage tier from the storage pool object.
Example 3: Get a storage tier from a virtual disk
PS C:\>Get-VirtualDisk-FriendlyName "VDisk01" | Get-StorageTier
This command uses the Get-VirtualDisk cmdlet to get the tiered virtual disk named VDisk01. The command passes the virtual disk to the Get-StorageTier cmdlet by using the
pipeline operator. The Get-StorageTier cmdlet gets the storage tiers that compose the tiered virtual disk.