Windows Server 2016 Administration Fundamentals

Dynamic disk (4.3.2)

To overcome the limitations of the basic disk, to be able to increase the read-and-write performance with disk striping, and to operate with volumes instead of partitions, dynamic disk configuration has been introduced. That means that volumes in dynamic disk configuration can be extended to more than one physical disk, thus letting us create five types of volumes: simple, mirrored, striped, spanned, and RAID-5 volumes.

In Windows Server 2016, to convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk, complete the following steps:

1. Right-click the Start button.
2. Select Disk Management.
3. Right-click the preferred disk, and from the context menu select Convert to Dynamic Disk... (see Figure 8.10):

Figure 8.10. Converting basic disk to ...