Perhaps, you may encounter unable to install Windows 7 on dynamic disk issue. Click to tweet. Then, you will receive a User Account Control interface where you need to press the Yes button to enter the Command Prompt interface successfully. Step 2: Type the following command one by one and press the Enter key after each command line:. Unlike Disk Management, this way will not show you the warnings. Both Disk Management and Diskpart can convert basic disk to dynamic disk without data loss.
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To select the required disk use the select disk command:. For the purposes of this chapter we will be creating a spanned volume which spans two physical disk drives. In this example we will work with a system containing three disk drives. Disk 0 is the system drive containing the Windows Server R2 operating system. Disks 1 and 2 are both initialized using the MBR partition style, have been converted to dynamic disks but have yet to have any volumes created on them.
The objective of this tutorial is to create a spanned volume which uses the entire capacity of disks 1 and 2. Assuming that the Disk Management snap-in is currently running, right click on the first disk drive and select New Spanned Volume This will invoke the New Spanned Volume Wizard. Click Next on the welcome screen to proceed to the disk selection screen as illustrated in the following figure:.
This screen provides the option to select disk drives from which the spanned volume is to be constructed. By default, only the drive on which the new volume is being created is listed. Consequently, the Maximum available space value reflects only the space available on the current disk. In this example, however, the volume is going to span both disks 1 and 2. Having done so the amount of space from each drive may be selected up to the maximum combined space from both disks:. With the desired total volume size configured by selecting each drive and selecting the amount of space to be allocated the Next button may be pressed to move the drive letter or mount point allocation screen.
Select either a suitable drive letter or mount point and click on Next to proceed. Finally, select the file system format and disk compression options and once again click Next to proceed to the summary screen. To initiate the creation of the volume, click on Finish. After a short delay the Disk Management graphical view will show the volume being formatted on both drives.
When completed the spanned volume is ready for use. In addition to using the Disk Management interface, Windows Server allows spanned volumes to be created from the command prompt using the diskpart tool. Invoke this tool by typing diskpart at a command prompt or in a Run dialog box. For the purposes of this tutorial we will be creating a volume on disk 1 and then extending it such that it spans both disk 1 and disk 2.
With disk 1 selected the next step is to create a volume on the disk. This is achieved using the create volume command. Initially the volume is going to be a simple volume. We will later extend the volume onto disk 2 thereby creating a spanned volume:. Click Next. A DFS namespace is a virtual view of shared folders located on different servers.
To install DFS Namespaces, you work with several additional configuration pages:. On the Create A DFS Namespace page, set the root name for the first namespace or elect to create a namespace later, as shown in the following screen. The namespace root name should be something that is easy for users to remember, such as CorpData. In a large enterprise, you may need to create separate namespaces for each major division. On the Select Namespace Type page, specify whether you want to create a domain-based namespace or a stand-alone namespace, as shown in the following screen.
Domain-based namespaces can be replicated with multiple namespace servers to provide high availability, but they can have only up to 5, DFS folders. Stand-alone namespaces can have up to 50, DFS folders, but they are replicated only when you use failover server clusters and configure replication. If you are creating a domain-based namespace, on the Provide Credentials To Create A Namespace page, click Select, and then specify the user name and password for an account that is a member of the Domain Admins groups.
This account is used to create the namespace. On the Configure Namespace page, you can add shared folders to the namespace as well as namespaces that are associated with a DFS folder, as shown in the following screen. Click Add. Type a name for the folder to add, and then click OK. Next, type a name for the folder in the namespace. This name can be the same as the original folder name or a new name that will be associated with the original folder in the namespace.
After you type a name, click OK to add the folder and complete the process. You do not have to configure DFS Namespaces at this time. This console is installed and available on the Administrative Tools menu. See Chapter With File Server Resource Manager, you can monitor the amount of space used on disk volumes and create storage reports. To install File Server Resource Manager, you work with two additional configuration pages:. On the Configure Storage Usage Monitoring page, select disk volumes for monitoring as shown in the following screen.
When you select a volume and then click Options, you can set the volume usage threshold and choose the reports to generate when the volume reaches the threshold value. By default, the usage threshold is 85 percent. On the Set Report Options page, you can select a save location for usage reports, as shown in the following screen. One usage report of each type you select is generated each time a volume reaches its threshold. Old reports are not automatically deleted.
To change the default location, click Browse, and then select the new save location in the Browse For Folder dialog box.
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