Disk Management

Question 1

Disk Management

Answer 1

• Manage disk operations
  
  • Individual computers and file servers
• Computer Management
  
  • Storage / Disk Management

Question 2

• Healthy

Answer 2

• The volume is working normally

Question 3

• Healthy (At Risk)

Answer 3

• The volume has experienced I/O errors

* Drive may be failing

Question 4

• Initializing

Answer 4

• Normal startup messag

Question 5

• Failed

Answer 5

• Cannot be started automatically

* The disk is damaged, or the file system is corrupted

Question 6

• Failed redundancy

Answer 6

• A drive has failed in a

* RAID 1 or RAID 5 array

Question 7

• Resynching

Answer 7

• Mirrored (RAID 1) volume is synching

data between the drives

Question 8

• Regenerating

Answer 8

• RAID 5 volume is recreating the data

based on the parity data

Question 9

Mounting drives

Answer 9

• Extend available storage space
  
  • Mount a separate storage device as a folder
• Mount in an empty folder
  
  • Instant storage space
  • Seamless to the user

Question 10

Volume sizes

Answer 10

• Resize a volume
  
  • Shrink, extend
  • Right-click the volume
• Splitting
  
  • Shrink a volume
  • Format unallocated space

Question 11

Storage spaces

Answer 11

• Storage for data centers, cloud infrastructures

* Multiple tiers, administrative control

Question 12

• Storage pool

Answer 12

• A group of storage drives
• Combine different storage devices into a single pool
• Easy to add or remove space in the pool

Question 13

• Storage space

Answer 13

• Allocate virtual disks from available space in the pool
• Includes options for mirroring and parity
• Hot spare availability

Question 14

The disk partition

Answer 14

• Separates the physical drive into logical pieces
  
  • Useful to keep data separated
  • Multiple partitions are not always necessary
• Useful for maintaining separate operating systems
  
  • Windows, Linux, etc.
• Formatted partitions are called volumes
  
  • Microsoft’s nomenclature

Question 15

MBR partition style

Answer 15

• MBR (Master Boot Record)
  
  • The old standby, with all of the old limitations

• Primary
• Bootable partitions
• Maximum of four primary partitions per hard disk
• One of the primary partitions can be marked as
Active

• Extended
• Used for extending the maximum number of
partitions
• One extended partition per hard disk (optional)
• Contains additional logical partitions
• Logical partitions inside an extended partition
are not bootable

Question 16

GPT partition style

Answer 16

• GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  
  • Globally Unique Identifier
  • The latest partition format standard
• Requires a UEFI BIOS
  
  • Can have up to
  • 128 primary partitions

• No need for extended partitions or logical drives

Question 17

Storage types

Answer 17

• Basic disk storage
• Available in DOS and Windows versions
• Primary/extended partitions, logical drives
• Basic disk partitions can’t span separate physical
disks

• Dynamic disk storage
  
  • Available in all modern Windows versions
  • Span multiple disks to create a large volume
  • Split data across physical disks (striping)
  • Duplicate data across physical disks (mirroring)
  • Not all Windows versions support all capabilities