Intro
Intro
Certified:
Server Core
Yes
Yes
Yes
No/Yes
No
Requirement
Minimum: 1 Ghz
Recommended: 2 Ghz
Optimal: 3 Ghz or faster
Minimum: 512 MB RAM
Recommended: 1 GB RAM
Optimal: 2 GB RAM (Full) or 1 GB RAM (Server Core) or
Memory
more
Maximum (32-bit): 4 GB (Standard) or 64 GB (Enterprise
and Datacenter)
Maximum (64-bit): 32 GB (Standard) or 2 TB (Enterprise,
Datacenter, and Itanium-based systems)
Available Disk
Space
Minimum: 8 GB
Recommended: 40 GB (Full); 10 GB (Core)
Optimal: 80 GB (Full); 40 GB (Core)
Optical Drive
DVD-ROM
Display and
Peripherals
Clean installations
Upgrades
Unattended installations
DEMO
Simple Volume
Spanned Volume
DEMO
Disk Management
Open Command Prompt: diskmgmt.msc
Open Server Manager Storage Disk Management:
Simple Volume
Dynamic Disk:
-
Simple Volume
Spanned Volume
Simple Volume
A simple volume must reside on a single disk and cannot
Spanned Volume
span multiple physical disk drives or be comprised of
Stripped Volume
Minimum 2 disks
Excellent performance (as blocks are striped)
No redundancy (no mirror, no parity)
Dont use this for any critical system
Mirrored Volume
Minimum 2 disks
Good performance (no striping, no parity)
Excellent redundancy (as blocks are mirrored)
RAID 5 Volume
Minimum 3 disks
Good performance (as blocks are striped)
Good redundancy (distributed parity)
Best cost effective
option providing
both performance
and redundancy.
Use this for DB
that is heavily
read oriented.
Write operations
will be slow.
DEMO