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LAB 3
CONFIGURING LOCAL
STORAGE
Initializing Disks
Exercise 3.2
Exercise 3.3
Lab Challenge
Exercise 3.1
Initializing Disks
Overview
In this exercise, you use two different tools to bring three new disks
online and initialize them in preparation for creating storage volumes.
Mindset
Completion time
15 minutes
MOAC 70-410 - Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 MLO Worksheet
Question
1
The three offline disks all use the SCSI bus type, whereas
the online disk uses the ATA bus. Why cant the three offline
disks use the ATA bus as well?
Question
2
Exercise 3.2
Overview
In this exercise, you use two methods to create simple volumes, using
Server Manager and the Disk Management snap-in.
Mindset
Server Manager and Disk Management both provide wizards for creating
simple volumes, with similar capabilities.
Completion time
15 minutes
Question
3
MOAC 70-410 - Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 MLO Worksheet
18. Press Alt+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Disk Management snap-in, showing
the three volumes you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image
into the Lab 3 worksheet file in the page provided.
[copy screen shot over this text]
Exercise 3.3
Overview
In this exercise, you use the Server Manager console to create a storage
pool, which consists of space from multiple physical disks.
Mindset
Storage pools are a new feature in Windows Server 2012 R2, which enable
you to create a flexible storage subsystem with various types of fault
tolerance.
Completion time
15 minutes
Question
4
Why cant the wizard create a virtual disk using the Parity
layout when there are only two physical disks in the storage
pool?
19. Press Alt+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Storage Pools page, showing the
storage pool and the virtual disk you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the
resulting image into the Lab 3 worksheet file in the page provided.
[copy screen shot over this text]
Question
5
At this point in the lab, what would happen to any data stored
on the E:, F:, G:, and J: drives if Disk 2 on the server was to
fail?
MOAC 70-410 - Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 MLO Worksheet
Lab
Challenge
Overview
Completion time
15 minutes
To complete this challenge, list the Windows PowerShell commands needed to delete
all of the storage components you created during this lab on the SCSI disks of
SERVERC. Then, restart SERVERC and take a screen shot of the Storage Pools page,
showing the removal of the storage pool and the virtual disk you created. Press Ctrl+V
to paste the resulting image into the Lab 3 worksheet file in the page provided.