Explanation:

The Windows Server Storage Spaces guidance in Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure explains that expanding storage with heterogeneous media (HDD + SSD) is done by first aggregating physical disks into a storage pool , then carving that pool into one or more virtual disks that can use storage tiers . The materials state that a pool " abstracts a set of physical di sks " and a virtual disk " exposes logical capacity and resiliency and can be configured with tiers such as an SSD performance tier and an HDD capacity tier ," allowing frequently accessed blocks to reside on SSD for faster read performance while colder data remains on HDD. After creating the virtual disk, you initialize it and create a volume (format with NTFS/ReFS) to make the capacity available to the OS. The study guide also notes that legacy dynamic/spanned volumes are not used with Storage Spaces, and co nverting disks to GPT is unnecessary for this scenario because the pool/virtual disk layer abstracts the underlying media. Therefore, the minimal, correct sequence to use all eight new disks and achieve the best read performance for hot data is:
Create a s torage pool # Create a (tiered) virtual disk # Create a simple volume .