Windows Server® 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Chapter 13. 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 2008

Managing RAIDs and Recovering from Failures

Managing LUNs on SANs

When you work with fixed disk drives on Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 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