Server 2012 Lab 3

Lab 3

Configuring Local Storage

This lab contains the following exercises and activities:

Exercise 3.1Exercise 3.2Exercise 3.3Lab Challenge | Initializing DisksCreating Simple VolumesCreating a Storage Pool Removing Storage Components |

Exercise 3.1 | Initializing Disks |

Overview | In this exercise, you use two different tools to bring three new disks online and initialize them in preparation for creating storage volumes. |

Mindset | Adding disk drives is a common server hardware upgrade, requiring an administrator to prepare them for use. |

Completion time | 15 minutes |

Question 1 | The three offline disks all use the SCSI bus type, whereas the online disk uses the ATA bus. Why can’t the three offline disks use the ATA bus as well? ATA can only handle one input command at a time. |

Question2 | What advantage is there to using the Disk Management snap-in to initialize new disks, rather than Server Manager?Server Manager is the only GUI that lets you handle storage pools and virtual disks, but with Disk Manager you can do more disk operations: initialize disks, select partitions styles, Create and format partitions and dynamic disks. |

Exercise 3.2 | Creating Simple Volumes |

Overview | In this exercise, you use two methods to create simple volumes, using Server Manager and the Disk Management snap-in. |

Mindset | Server Manager and Disk Management both provide wizards for creating simple volumes, with similar capabilities. |

Completion time | 15 minutes |

Question3 | What Windows PowerShell commands should you use to create a simple volume of the same size on disk 3 using the drive letter G:? New-Partition -DiskNumber 3 - Size 10GB - AssignDriveLetter |

18. Press Alt+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Disk Management snap-in, showing the three volumes you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the Lab 3 worksheet file in the page provided.

Exercise 3.3 | Creating a Storage Pool |

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