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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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