Chapter 2 Tasks

Question 1

GUI LAB

1. Create a new volume and provide it a drive letter using the NTFS file system
2. Open the new volume
3. Create a new volume but assign a NTFS folder name using the ReFS filesystem
4. Locate the new folder and open the volume
5. Do the same above but through server manager

Answer 1

1. Right click the windows icon and select ‘Disk Management’
2. Bring the disk online
3. Initialise the disk
4. Create a new simple volume
5. Assign it a drive letter
6. Do the same but assign the simple volume a mount point instead of a drive letter

Question 2

Format a new disk, making sure it uses GPT and has the filesystem ReFS, finally assign it a drive letter. This is to be done using diskpart.

Answer 2

1. list disk
2. select disk [disk-number]
3. if there is data on the disk: clean. Note: if you use ‘clean all’, it will zero out each sector on the hard drive preventing any recovery attempts on data that was on there previously.
4. convert gpt
5. create partition [type]
6. list partition
7. select partition [partition-number]
8. format fs=refs label=”[label-name>]” quick
9. assign letter=[drive-letter]

Question 3

GUI LAB

1. Create a spanned volume
2. Create a mirrored volume (RAID 1)
3. Create a new striped volume (RAID 0)
4. Do the same above but in diskpart
5. Do the same above but in server manager

Question 4

GUI LAB

1. Create a new virtual disk using parity through storage spaces
2. Add a new disk to the VM
3. Assign the new disk to the storage pool

Question 5

GUI LAB

1. Create a new volume
2. Configure deduplication
3. Enable throughput optimisation to run a certain times during the week, but at different times during the weekend
4. Open powershell and get all the commands in the deduplication module
5. Get the deduplication status and pipe it into the format list cmdlet
6. Get the volumes data deduplication is enabled on and pipe it into the format list cmdlet
7. Start the deduplication job