In the name text box, type Data1 and click Next. The Select the storage layout page appears.
13. In the layout list, select Parity and click Next. A warning appears, stating that the storage pool does not contain a sufficient number of physical disks to support the Parity layout.
Question4 Why can’t the wizard create a virtual disk using the Parity layout when there are only two physical disks in the storage pool?
14. In the layout list, select Mirror and click Next. The Specify the provisioning type page appears.
15. Leave the default Fixed option selected and click Next. The Specify the size of the virtual disk page appears.
16. In the Virtual disk size text box, type 10 and click Next. The Confirm selections page appears.
17. Click Create. The wizard creates the virtual disk and the View results page appears. Deselect the Create a volume when this wizard closes option.
18. Click Close. The virtual disk appears on the Storage Pools page.
19. Press Alt+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Storage Pools page, showing the storage pool and the virtual disk you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the Lab 3 worksheet file in the page provided.
20. In the Virtual Disks tile, right-click the Data1 disk you just created and, from the context menu, select New Volume. The New Volume Wizard appears.
21. Using the wizard, create a volume on Disk 4 (Data1) using all of the available space, the NTFS file system, and the drive letter J:.
End of exercise. Close any open windows before you begin the next exercise.
Question5 At this point in the lab, what would happen to any data stored on the E:, F:, G:, and J: drives if Disk 2 on the server was to fail?
Lab Challenge Removing Storage Components
Overview
In addition to the graphical tools provided with Windows Server 2012, you can also manipulate the storage subsystem using Windows PowerShell commands.
Completion time 15 minutes
To complete this challenge, list the Windows...
