johnkay21 Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Whats the best way to create a mirror (RAID 1) within server 2003?? can you create a mirror after installing the OS??? thanks
Neil Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 You need to put another disk in the server, then you can go into disk management and convert both disks to dynamic. You then need to reboot and then you can go back into disk management and add your mirror.
Netman Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 how do you convert disks to dynamic????? Are you sure you're on the right forum? This one's for IT people... Ok steady on. There are people of all levels on here and what one person knows verbatim someone else won't. - plexer
DArkTone Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Start>Run... compmgmt.msc click Disk Management Right click the disk you want to mirror in the bottom pane and click Convert to Dynamic Disk... and follow the instructions. You will have to reboot. Install the new drive Then boot up and go back into Disk Management. It should autodetect the new drive and ask if you want to convert it to a dynamic disk. If it doesn't then just go through the steps above again for the new disk. Reboot once more, into Disk Management, right click the original drive and click Add Mirror...and follow the instructions (choosing the new drive to be the mirror). All done. This is all assuming that your server doesn't already have a RAID controller built in. If it does you would just add another drive to the raid controller and then use the controller's configuration software/BIOS to set up a mirrored array.
Osprey Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 If the server is going to be under any sort of load fit a RAID card if it hasn't already got one (or embedded RAID). We find that software RAID works but there is a performance hit.
Netman Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 how do you convert disks to dynamic????? Are you sure you're on the right forum? This one's for IT people... Ok steady on. There are people of all levels on here and what one person knows verbatim someone else won't. - plexer Calm down - it was only a joke... the sense of humour bypass is switched on again I see...
plexer Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Yes but as has been said time and time again it's impossible to convey that by a text based medium so it's safer to refrain from it. Ben
Netman Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 whats the answer then smart arse RTFM newbie... or in other words, don't expect other people to bail you out when you obviously haven't made any effort to look into it at all - dumb arse!
Grommit Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Admin Tools>Computer Management > Disk management Right Click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management But If you don't know what a dynamic disk is are you sure that you have the skils and knowledge to make the disks into Raids ? Are these servers active ?
k-strider Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 hardware raid would be better but if the server is already in use then as people above have said is the way to do it.
GrumbleDook Posted July 4, 2007 Posted July 4, 2007 Also have a look at Episode 41 on the IT Idiots site as this covers the setting up of drives, disks and volumes.
Jobos Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Apart from mirroring, does converting a disk to dynamic have any other advantage?
strawberry Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 lots, it means you can span a volume accross several disks ( or several parts of disks), it also allows you to stripe /mirror or set up software raid 5. it also means you can change the size of a partitiion very easily!.
Geoff Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 They'll also be unreadable on XP Home, however I'm unsure if you'd class that as an advantage.
Jobos Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Would you recommend it for a machine running server 2003? It has 2 X 250GB disks and I would like to make a 20GB system, 2GB proxy and stripe whatevers left to make a 450GB+ partition
meastaugh1 Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 On more than one ocassion, I've seen a server with software RAID 1 configured, mirror errors that occured on one drive (due to a hardware fault), on to the other drive Don't know whether this is the nature of RAID 1, or whether hardware raid would be better at detecting faults?
Geoff Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Yes, minor faults get mirrored just like real data. It's a feature! Remember kids, RAID is not a backup solution!
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