Question

You are the IT administrator for a small corporate network. You have installed the Windows Server 2016 operating system on a server named CorpServer2. During this installation, you created a single partition that took up the entire first disk. You would like to add fault tolerance to the system volume and create an additional fault tolerant volume for storing data. Four additional, uninitialized hard disks have been installed in the server for this purpose. In this lab, your task is to complete the following: On Disk 1, create a mirrored volume of the System (C:) volume to add fault tolerance. Using Disk 2, Disk 3, and Disk 4, create a new volume that provides both fault tolerance and improved performance using the following settings: Volume size: 2 TB Drive letter: R Format: NTFS

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In this lab, you perform the following tasks:

• On Disk 1, create a mirrored volume of the System (C:) volume to add fault tolerance.

• Using Disk 2, Disk 3, and Disk 4, create a RAID 5 volume that provides both fault tolerance and improved performance using the following settings:

o Volume size: 2 TB

o Drive letter: R

o Format: NTFS

o Volume label: Data

Complete this lab as follows:

1. Mirror an existing volume as follows:

a. Right-click Start and select Disk Management.

b. Click OK to initialize new disks.

c. Maximize the Disk Management window to better view the volumes.

d. Right-click the System (C:) volume and select Add Mirror.

e. Select Disk 1 that will be used for the mirrored copy.

f. Select Add Mirror.

g. Click Yes to convert the basic disk to a dynamic disk.

2. Create a RAID 5 volume as follows:

a. In Disk Management, right-click a disk with free space and select New RAID 5 Volume.

b. Click Next.

c. Under Available, holding down the Ctrl key, select Disk 3 and Disk 4 to be part of the new volume with Disk 2.

d. Select Add.

e. Click Next.

f. From the drive letter drop-down dialog, select R; then click Next.

g. Make sure that NTFS is selected as the file system.

h. In the Volume label field, enter Data.

i. Select Next.

j. Click Finish to create the volume.

k. Click Yes to convert the basic disk to a dynamic disk.

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