Windows Server 2008 Disk Management

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Author: User

Experiment Name: Dynamic disk

Experiment Description: Practice simple volumes, cross-region volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, RAID-5 volume additions and considerations of their principles and pros and cons

Experimental topology: slightly

Experimental steps:

1. Add a new hard drive 40G

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Convert to Dynamic disk

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Right-click on the unallocated space on disk 1 to create a new simple volume 200M

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In the "New Volume (E:)" Right click, expand 300M

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Extend this simple volume to 500M

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2, add two pieces of new hard drive each 40G

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To convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk

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Create a spanned volume, disk 1 with 200M, disk 2 with 300M

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The total capacity of this spanned volume is 500M

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3. Add 2 new hard drives each 40G and convert to dynamic disk

Create a striped volume, each disk space size 300M

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Total capacity is 600M

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4. Add 2 new hard drives each 40G and convert to dynamic disk

Create a mirrored volume, per disk space size 300M

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As you can see, the capacity of the new mirrored volume is 300M

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Storing data in a mirrored volume

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Shutdown, remove one of the disks, add a new disk, start the computer, go to Disk Management, initialize the disk to a dynamic disk

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Right-click before mirror drive letter-Select Delete Mirror-select lost-delete mirror-ok

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Right-click a failed mirrored volume-add mirror

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Mirrored volume recovery succeeded

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Files are also in

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5, add 3 pieces of new hard drive each 40G

Convert to Dynamic disk, right-click unallocated space on disk 1

Create a RAID-5 volume with a disk space size of 200M per block

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It shows that the total capacity of the new RAID-5 volume is 400M

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RAID-5 Volume deposit Data

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Power off, remove one of the hard drives

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Add another new hard drive

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Repair the RAID5 volume. Power on, open Disk Management, initialize new disk, convert to dynamic disk, right-click before RAID 5 volume--— repair Volume

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Select the newly added disk

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Delete a missing disk

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RAID-5 volume repaired successfully and in good condition

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The files are back.

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Conclusion: The experiment shows that the dynamic disk has more expansibility, high reliability and high reading and writing performance than basic disk.

Summarize the following table

Volume type

Number of disks

can be used to store data capacity

Performance

Fail over

Simple volume

1

All

Cross-Region volumes

2~32

All

Not change

No

Striped Volume

2~32

All

Read and write improve many

No

Mirrored volumes

2

Half

Read elevation, write down, support fault tolerance, general operating system placed in this volume

Yes

RAID-5 Roll

3~32

Number of disks minus 1

Read elevation, write down, support fault tolerance, read faster, half the data in this volume

Yes

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