Windows Server 2012 R2 Pocket Consultant: Storage, Security, & Networking

Chapter 2. Configuring storage

• Using volumes and volume sets

• Improving performance and fault tolerance with RAID

• Implementing RAID on Windows Server 2012 R2

• Managing RAID and recovering from failures

• Standards-based storage management

• Managing existing partitions and drives

Storage management and the ways in which Windows Server works with disks have changed substantially over the past few years. Although traditional storage management techniques relate to physical drives located inside the server, many servers today use attached storage and virtual disks.

Generally, when you work with internal fixed drives, you often need to perform advanced disk setup procedures, such as creating a volume set or setting up a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) ...