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The document discusses various storage options for businesses including direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS), and storage area networks (SANs). It also covers topics such as basic and dynamic disks, partitions, volumes, RAID levels, and the differences between MBR and GPT disk formats.

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The document discusses various storage options for businesses including direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS), and storage area networks (SANs). It also covers topics such as basic and dynamic disks, partitions, volumes, RAID levels, and the differences between MBR and GPT disk formats.

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Storage management

Introduction
● Several storage options exist today to
support various needs of the small,
medium and enterprise level businesses.
The three primary options are:
◦ Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
◦ Network Attached Storage (NAS)
◦ Storage Area Network (SAN)
Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
● DAS, as the name suggested, involves the direct
connection of servers to storage.
● This can either be with the use of an internal server disk
controller with either internal or external derives, or
with a completely external storage subsystem that
includes the controller and disks.
● The main characteristic of DAS is that the storage
connection from the server to the storage is hard-
connected. This connection is typically through a direct
SCSI cabled connection.
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
As the name suggests, it’s storage attached
to network, buy network it means the
common Ethernet network. A NAS is
essentially a file server storage that often
integrates an operating system dedicated to
file sharing.
Storage Area Network
Utilizing Dynamic Block Architecture;
Storage Center intelligently optimizes data
movement and access at the block level.
Dynamic Block Architecture records and
tracks specific information about every
block of data that provides the system
intelligence on how that block is being
used.
Managing Disks, Volumes, Partitions
in Windows Server 2008
● Basic and Dynamic Disks
● Simple Volume
● Spanned
● RAID 0 (Striped)
● RAID 1 (Mirror)
● RAID 5
What is a partitions?

A physical disk is divide in to separate


sections called portions
Basic disk can have up to:
◦ Four primary partitions
◦ Or three primary partitions and one extended
partition
Extended partitions can be subdivided in to
logical drives
Primary partitions cannot be subdivided
Basic Disk vs. Dynamic Disk
Disk Benefits
Basic Disk • Use to create segregated Space to
organize data
• Can be divided in to up to 4 primary
partitions, or up to 3 primary partitions and
one extended partitions
Dynamic • Use to create volumes that span multiple
Disk disks
• No limit on the number of volumes per disk
• Use to create fault-tolerant disks that
ensure data integrity when hardware
failure occur.
MBR vs. GPT
● Master Boot Record (MBR) you can
create up to four primary partition per
basic disk, or you can create up to three
primary partition and one extended
partition within the extended partition you
can then create unlimited logical drivers.
MBR vs. GPT
GUID Partition Table – GPT
You can create up to 128 partitions, because
GPT disks do not limit you to four
partitions, you do not need to create
extended partitions or logical drives, GPT
disks are recommend for disks larger than 2
Terabytes and disks on 64-bit systems.
Spanned Volumes

Spanned volumes combine areas of


unallocated space from multiple disks into
one logical volume. The areas of
unallocated space can be different sizes.
Spanned volumes require two disks, and
you can use up to 32 disks. When creating
spanned volumes, keep these points in
mind:
Raid-0 Stripping

Striped volumes improve disk input/output


(I/O) performance by distributing I/O
requests across disks. Striped volumes are
composed of stripes of data of equal size
written across each disk in the volume.
They are created from equally sized,
unallocated areas on two or more disks. In
Windows Server 2003, the size of each
stripe is 64 kilobytes (KB) and cannot be
changed.
Mirrored volume
In data storage, disk mirroring or RAID1
is the replication of logical disk volumes
onto separate physical hard disks in real
time to ensure continuous availability. A
mirrored volume is a complete logical
representation of separate volume copies.
RAID 5
RAID 5 is the other most common RAID hard
drive arrangement found on the NAS devices
reviewed here at Network Storage Tips. RAID
5 requires at least 3 hard drives, but more can
be added. RAID 5 is more efficient in that only
1 “wasted” drive needs to be purchased to
provide the RAID array protection :
If any drive fails in a RAID 5 array, the system
can rebuild the data once that drive is replaced
based on information stored on the other
drives.

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