09 Implementing Local Storage
09 Implementing Local Storage
Introduction
Regarding storage as a whole, there are a
number of different solutions that are
available.
In this lesson, we are talking about local
storage, i.e. storage that is specifically local to
the individual server that we are working with.
Open a server, preferably not the domain
controller.
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Disk Management
To open disk management, click the start
button or press it on the keyboard
Then type ‘computer management’, and select
and open it
You see a window similar to the following:
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Disk Management
In the computer management utility, on the
left pane you see ‘Disk Management’
Click on disk management, and it will show you
how the local storage has been configured.
On the top you see the different volumes you
have (it may be only one)
The C drive and others, if there is any additional
A volume is a logical representation of storage
space on a physical space
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Disk Management
If you look down on the bottom section, you
see the physical disks available.
On my server, there is only one physical disk, that
is disk 0, i.e. the C volume, with its size.
We want to partition the single C drive, half as
C, and another half for other purposes
To do that, you have to shrink the volume to a
smaller size
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Shrinking a Volume
To shrink a volume, right click on the volume
in disk management, and click on shrink
volume.
There you see the total size before you shrink,
and there you can enter the size of a new
volume you want to create
Then click shrink
Now you will get unallocated space.
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Shrinking a Volume
Right click on the unallocated space, and click on ‘New
Simple Volume’
Click on next, then you will be asked to specify the volume
size
If you want only one additional partition in addition to C, use the
whole size
If you still want to create a third partition, enter now the size of
the second partition
Then click next, and assign a drive letter
The first letter selected by default is E, let it be.
It is recommended that you do not use letters A or B for a hard
disk drive, since that is reserved for floppy disks in the past.
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Shrinking a Volume
Then click next, and you will be asked to format
the drive.
Format it with the recommended settings
On the file system, we have three types: FAT32,
NTFS, and ReFS
ReFS (Resilient File System) is new and came with
Windows server 2012
It is designed to enhance the capability of NTFS
Select NTFS (the default one), and click next, and
click finish.
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Shrinking a Volume
Now you have a new partition, with drive
letter E.
We still have the remaining unallocated disk
space
We can make that a third partition, just the
way we created the second one
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Extend a Volume
We can also extend a volume.
To extend a volume, right click on the volume
you want to extend, and select Extend
volume, then click next
Set the size and click next and finish
Note: you can only extend to unallocated
space which is adjacent to this disk space.
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