You have installed Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 on your company’s network. Each Windows EBS server contains a single hard disk drive.
You want to configure a mirrored volume on the Messaging Server to supply fault tolerance. You attach to the Messaging Server a new disk that will be used to create a mirror.
What should you do next?
A.
Initialize the new disk.
B.
Format the new disk.
C.
Create volumes on the new disk.
D.
Convert the new disk into a dynamic disk.
Explanation:
You should initialize the new disk. Mirrored volumes provide fault tolerance by using RAID 1, which creates a copy of a volume. To create a mirrored volume, a minimum of two hard disks are required. When you attach a new disk to a computer, you must first initialize the disk to create partitions or volumes. After attaching a new disk, when you first start the Disk Management utility, a wizard will appear and supply a list of new disks detected by the operating system. The new disks are initialized when you complete the wizard. After initializing the disk, you should create partitions or volumes on the disk and then format these volumes or partitions.If the wizard does not start, you can manually initialize new disks by performing the following steps:
1. Open the Computer Management (Local) snap-in.
2. In the console tree, expand the Computer Management (Local) node, expand the Storage node, and then click the Disk Management node.
3. Right-click the disk you want to initialize, and then click the Initialize Disk option.
4. Select the one or more disks that you want to initialize in the Initialize Disk dialog box. The disk is initialized as a basic disk.You should not format the new disk. Formatting a disk is the last step that should be done after initializing the disk and creating partitions or volumes on the disk.
You should not create volumes on the new disk at this time because you cannot create partitions or volumes until the disk is initialized.
You should not convert the new disk into a dynamic disk at this time because you cannot convert a disk into a dynamic disk until the disk is initialized.