NTC 324 Week 1 Lab 3

NTC 324 Week 1 LAB 3 CONFIGURING LOCAL STORAGE
THIS LAB CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES:
Exercise 3.1
Exercise 3.2
Exercise 3.3
Lab Challenge	Initializing Disks
Creating Simple Volumes
Creating a Storage Pool
Removing Storage Components

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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	Adding disk drives is a common server hardware upgrade, requiring an administrator to prepare them for use.
Completion time	15 minutes





Question 1	The three offline disks all use the SCSI bus type, whereas the online disk uses the ATA bus. Why can’t the three offline disks use the ATA bus as well?






Question2	What advantage is there to using the Disk Management snap-in to initialize new disks, rather than Server Manager?









Exercise 3.2	Creating Simple Volumes
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



Question3	What Windows PowerShell commands should you use to create a simple volume of the same size on disk 3 using the drive letter G:?





18.	Press Alt+PrtScr 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.
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Exercise 3.3	Creating a Storage Pool
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, which enable you to create a flexible storage subsystem with various types of fault tolerance.
Completion time	15 minutes

Question4	Why can’t the wizard create a virtual disk using the Parity layout when there are only two physical disks in the storage pool?






19.	Press Alt+PrtScr 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.
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Question5	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?







Lab Challenge	Removing Storage Components
Overview
	In addition to the graphical tools provided with Windows Server 2012, you can also manipulate the storage subsystem using Windows PowerShell commands.
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 SVR-MBR-C. Then, restart SVR-MBR-C 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.





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