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3.11.2. Extending Storage using Disk Management

The Disk Management snap-in provides management of hard disks, volumes or partitions. It can be used to extend a dynamic volume only.

Notes

Disk Management cannot be used to extend basic disk partitions.

Guidelines for extending a dynamic volume:

Use the Disk Management utility.

You can extend a volume only if it does not have a file system or if it is formatted NTFS.

You cannot extend volumes formatted using FAT or FAT32.

You cannot extend striped volumes, mirrored volumes, or RAID 5 volumes.

For more information, see the Disk Management online help.

3.12.File Services Features in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2

This section begins by identifying file services in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. The remainder of it describes the many tasks and utilities that play a role in file server management.

3.12.1. Storage Manager for SANs

The Storage Manager for SANs (also called Simple SAN) snap-in enables you to create and manage the LUNs that are used to allocate space on storage arrays. Storage Manager for SANs can be used on SANs that support Virtual Disk Server (VDS). It can be used in both Fibre Channel and iSCSI environments.

For more information on Storage Manager for SANs, see the online help. A Microsoft document titled Storage Management in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2: File Server Resource Manager and Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks is available at:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/7/7472bf9b-3023-48b7-87be- d2cedc38f15a/WS03R2_Storage_Management.doc .

Notes

Storage Manager for SANs is only available on Standard and Enterprise editions of Windows Storage Server 2003 R2.

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