Info
Level: Intermediate 
Presenter: Eli the Computer Guy 
Date Created: April 12, 2013 
Length of Class:  30:12 
Research Assistance:  
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Windows Server 2012 
Prerequisites
Comfortable with basic Windows 2012 Administrative tasks 
Purpose of Class
  This class teaches students to use Disk Management to ad Hard Drives to a system and to create usable Volumes to store data. 
Class Notes
To manage Hard Drives Go To: Server Management -- Tools -- Computer Management -- Disk Management 
Basic Disks can only have 4 partitions and no fancy functionality. 
Dynamic Disks allow you to create RAID, Extend/ Shrink Partitions 
Types of Volumes 
Simple -- Basically an old fashioned partition 
Spanned -- Allows multiple Hard Drives to be seen as one 
RAID 5 -- Standard Disk Striping with Parity 
Mirroring  - Standard Mirroring 
Striping -- Standard RAID Striping 
GPT Partitioning allows partitions over 2 TB in size 
Don't try to create RAID 5, Mirroring or Striping in a Virtual Environment (It will crash the virtual machine) 
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Lab Setup Used in Demonstration
The ETCG Host Computer Specs are: 
ASUS Model: CM6870US01 
16 GB of RAM 
1 TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive 
i7 3.4 GHz Intel Processor 
Windows Server 2012 Member Server Virtual Machine 
Internal Network Connection in VirtualBox 
4 Additional Virtual Hard Drives 
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