Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Creating Virtual Disks
Once a storage pool is created, virtual disks can be added to it. Virtual disks can be configured with a striped, mirror, or parity storage layout. Striped virtual disks can be created on storage pools that contain only a single physical disk because it includes no fault tolerance or resilience. Mirror and parity storage layout disks require that the storage pool contains multiple physical disks. Mirror virtual disks will be configured to replicate data to two or more physical disks. Parity disks will store parity information about the data stored on all disks within the storage pool. The parity information is stored across all disks in the set and is used to maintain data integrity when data is written to, or moved within, ...
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