Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant, Second Edition

Chapter 12. Administering Volume Sets and RAID Arrays

In this chapter:

Using Volumes and Volume Sets

Improving Performance and Fault Tolerance with RAIDs

Implementing RAID on Windows Server 2003

Managing RAIDs and Recovering from Failures

When you work with Microsoft Windows Server 2003, you’ll often need to perform advanced disk setup procedures, such as creating a volume set or setting up a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array.

• With a volume set, you can create a single volume that spans multiple drives. Users can access this volume as if it were a single drive, regardless of how many drives the actual volume is spread over. A volume that’s on a single drive is referred to as a simple volume. A volume that spans multiple drives is referred ...