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In this lab we are going to setup additional raid storage for DATA and mirror the system drive for redundancy. In this lab we are going to setup additional raid storage for DATA and mirror the system drive for redundancy. Note, before adding or removing disks, shutdown the server!
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 1. Add 3 Disks to your server (3 SCSI disks 0-2)  1. Add 3 Disks to your server (3 SCSI disks 0-2) 50 GB each.
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    a. Once you have moved the shares test your new configuration to see that it works. You can easily do this by creating a file n c:\shares\developers, if it shows up in the share it didn't work. If it doesn't show up in the share it did work.
    a. Once you are satisfied that the new shares are working, you can delete the shares folder from c: drive.

Although I don't personally recommend mirroring with the server software, Microsoft does. So let's do that.
 1. Add a second SATA disk 60 GB (or whatever size c: is).
 1. Initialize it using GPT in the Disk Management Tool
 1. Upgrade the original system disk (containing the C: partition) to a dynamic disk.Right click on "Disk 0 Basic" and select convert to dynamic.

Lab 05: Raid Storage

In this lab we are going to setup additional raid storage for DATA and mirror the system drive for redundancy. Note, before adding or removing disks, shutdown the server!

Directions

  1. Add 3 Disks to your server (3 SCSI disks 0-2) 50 GB each.
  2. Using Disk Management tool, initialize all three new disks.
  3. Right click on the first new disk and create a new RAID 5 volume. Follow the Wizard
    1. Add all 3 disks to the RAID 5 set.
    2. Leave the rest default (it will use all available space on the three drives).
    3. Assign the new volume to S: as a drive letter
    4. Set the volume label to DATA
    5. Format the volume using the REFS file system.

  4. Move the shares folder to the new drive following instructions https://pureinfotech.com/move-shared-folder-another-drive-windows-10/

    1. Once you have moved the shares test your new configuration to see that it works. You can easily do this by creating a file n c:\shares\developers, if it shows up in the share it didn't work. If it doesn't show up in the share it did work.
    2. Once you are satisfied that the new shares are working, you can delete the shares folder from c: drive.

Although I don't personally recommend mirroring with the server software, Microsoft does. So let's do that.

  1. Add a second SATA disk 60 GB (or whatever size c: is).
  2. Initialize it using GPT in the Disk Management Tool
  3. Upgrade the original system disk (containing the C: partition) to a dynamic disk.Right click on "Disk 0 Basic" and select convert to dynamic.

WindowsAdministration/Lab04.5RaidStorage (last edited 2023-10-05 18:06:46 by scot)