Creating and Using Simple Volumes Simple volumes are the default volume type on a dynamic disk. Use simple volumes in the fol- lowing situations: ■ You only have one disk in a machine. ■ You are not concerned with fault tolerance. ■ You want the ability to dynamically extend the space used on a volume. Use the following steps to create a simple volume 1. Right-click the unallocated space on the disk on which you want to create a simple volume. 2. Click New Volume on the context menu.This will start the New Volume Wizard, shown in Figure 5.42. 3. Click Next to continue. 4. On the Select Volume Type window (Figure 5.43), select Simple. 5. Click Next to continue. 136 Chapter 5 • Managing Physical and Logical Disks Figure 5.42 Creating Simple Volumes Figure 5.43 Selecting Volume Type 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 136 6. You will next be prompted to select the disk to use for the simple volume, as shown in Figure 5.44.The correct disk should already be selected. If not, select it. 7. Select the amount of space to be used for the simple volume and click Next to continue. 8. Next you need to identify your new volume. Select a drive letter or choose to mount the new volume to an NTFS folder. For this example, we assign the new volume the drive letter D, as shown in Figure 5.45 9. Next, you can format your new volume.You can format the volume as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS, or you can choose not to format the volume now. For this example, choose NTFS, as shown in Figure 5.46, and click Next to continue. 10. You will now see the Completing the New Volume Wizard window, as shown in Figure 5.47. Read over the summary to verify that you made the correct selections and click Finish to complete the process. Managing Physical and Logical Disks • Chapter 5 137 Figure 5.44 Selecting Disks to be Used in a Simple Volume Figure 5.45 Assigning a Drive Letter or Path 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 137 Spanned volumes enable you to group different disks of the same or different sizes and access them as if they were one disk. However, only one disk in the volume is written to at a time. Spanned volumes can be created using two to 32 disks. Spanned volumes provide 100 percent drive utilization (minus the 1MB per disk overhead for the LDM partition). Use spanned volumes in the following situations: ■ You want to access multiple disks as a single volume and you are not concerned about fault tolerance or increased read/write performance. ■ Your disks are different sizes and you want to achieve 100 percent drive utilization with a single volume. ■ You have a simple volume that is almost full and you need to expand it across multiple disks. 138 Chapter 5 • Managing Physical and Logical Disks Figure 5.46 Formatting Your New Volume Figure 5.47 Finishing the New Volume WizardCreating and Using Spanned Volumes 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 138 Create a spanned volume 1. Right-click the unallocated space on the disk on which you want to create a spanned volume. 2. Click New Volume on the context menu.This will start the New Volume Wizard,as shown in Figure 5.48. 3. Click Next to continue. 4. In the Select Volume Type window (Figure 5.49), select Spanned. 5. Click Next to continue. 6. You will next be prompted to select the disks to use for the spanned volume, as shown in Figure 5.50. Select the disks you want to use. 7. Select the amount of space to be used for simple volume and click Next to continue. Managing Physical and Logical Disks • Chapter 5 139 Figure 5.48 Creating a Spanned Volume Figure 5.49 Selecting the Volume Type to be Created 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 139 8. Next you need to identify your new spanned volume. Select a drive letter or choose to mount the new volume to an NTFS folder. For this example, we assign the new volume the drive letter D, as shown in Figure 5.51. 9. Next you can format your new spanned volume.You can format the volume as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS, or you can choose not to format the volume at this time. For this example, choose NTFS, as shown in Figure 5.52, and then click Next to continue. 10. You will next see the Completing the New Volume Wizard window, as shown in Figure 5.53. Read over the summary to verify that you made the correct selections and click Finish to complete the process. 140 Chapter 5 • Managing Physical and Logical Disks Figure 5.50 Selecting Disks to be Used in Spanned Volume Figure 5.51 Assigning a Drive Letter or Path 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 140 Creating and Using Striped Volumes Striped volumes require that you use an equal amount of unallocated space on each of the disks that is part of the volume. Ideally, your disks will all be the same size and all space on each will be unal- located. If not, some of the space will be wasted when you create the volume. Striped volumes increase both read and write performance when accessing the volume by uti- lizing all the disks at one time. Unlike spanned volumes, striped volumes cannot be extended. Striped volumes can be created using two to 32 disks. Use stripped volumes in the following situations: ■ The primary disk operation will be reading information from a large database such as SQL or Exchange. ■ The volume will be used to spool large print jobs. ■ You are not concerned with fault tolerance. ■ You plan to collect external data on the disk at very fast transfer rates. Managing Physical and Logical Disks • Chapter 5 141 Figure 5.52 Formatting the New Spanned Volume Figure 5.53 Completing the New Volume Wizard 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 141 Creating a striped volume 1. Right-click the unallocated space on the disk on which you want to create a striped volume. 2. Click New Volume on the context menu.This will start the New Volume Wizard,as shown in Figure 5.54. 3. Click Next to continue. 4. On the Select Volume Type window (Figure 5.55), select Striped. 5. Click Next to continue. 6. You will next be prompted to select the disk to use for the striped volume, as shown in Figure 5.56. Select the disks you want to use. 7. Select the amount of space to be used for the striped volume and click Next to continue. 142 Chapter 5 • Managing Physical and Logical Disks Figure 5.54 Creating a Striped Volume Figure 5.55 Selecting the Volume Type to be Created 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 142 8. Next you need to identify your new striped volume. Select a drive letter or choose to mount the new volume to an NTFS folder. For this example, we assign the new volume the drive letter E, as shown in Figure 5.57. 9. Next, you can format your new striped volume.You can format a striped volume as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS, or you can choose not to format the volume at this time. For this example, choose NTFS, as shown in Figure 5.58, and click Next to continue. 10. You will next see the Completing the New Volume Wizard window, as shown in Figure 5.59. Read the summary to verify that you made the correct selections and click Finish to complete the process. Managing Physical and Logical Disks • Chapter 5 143 Figure 5.56 Selecting Disks to be Used in Striped Volume Figure 5.57 Assigning a Drive Letter or Path 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 143 Creating and Using Mirrored Volumes Mirrored volumes require exactly two disks and both disks must be the same size. When you write information to the mirror, it is written twice – once to each disk.This provides complete redun- dancy for your data. Should one disk fail, you can use the mirrored copy. Mirrored volumes provide only 50 percent disk utilization (the least cost efficient of all volume types) and cannot be extended. However, they provide excellent fault tolerance. Use mirrored volumes in the following situations: ■ You want to provide fault tolerance for the boot and/or system partition. ■ You want an easy way to roll back failed operating system upgrades (break the mirror before the upgrade). ■ You need fault tolerance, but you only have two disks. ■ You want to be able to get the system up and running quickly after a disk failure. 144 Chapter 5 • Managing Physical and Logical Disks Figure 5.58 Formatting the New Striped Volume Figure 5.59 Ending the New Volume Wizard 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 144 Creating a mirrored volume 1. Right-click the simple volume you wish to mirror, as shown in Figure 5.60. 2. Choose Add Mirror from the context menu. 3. You are next prompted, as shown in Figure 5.61, to select a location to hold a mirror of the selected drive. Select the disk on which you want to create the mirror copy. 4. Click Add Mirror to continue.You will see your mirror being created, as shown in Figure 5.62. After the mirror is created, both volumes that make up the two parts of the mirror will appear in the Disk Management console with the same drive letter. Managing Physical and Logical Disks • Chapter 5 145 Figure 5.60 Creating a Mirrored Volume Figure 5.61 Selecting a Location for the Mirror 301_BD_W2k3_05.qxd 5/12/04 12:32 PM Page 145 . to select the disk to use for the simple volume, as shown in Figure 5.44 .The correct disk should already be selected. If not, select it. 7. Select the amount of space to be used for the simple. Figure 5.52, and then click Next to continue. 10. You will next see the Completing the New Volume Wizard window, as shown in Figure 5.53. Read over the summary to verify that you made the correct. of the disks that is part of the volume. Ideally, your disks will all be the same size and all space on each will be unal- located. If not, some of the space will be wasted when you create the