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Lab 3

Configuring Local Storage

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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? |

Question2 | What advantage is there to using the Disk Management snap-in to initialize new disks, rather than Server Manager? |

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:? |

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.

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Exercise 3.3 | Creating a Storage Pool |

Overview | In this exercise, you use the Server Manager console to create a storage pool, which consists of space from multiple physical disks. |

Mindset | Storage pools are a new feature in Windows Server 2012 R2, which enable you to create a flexible storage subsystem with...