Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Server Quick Start Guide
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Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced 1 Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for managing disks and volumes on local and remote machines. With a comprehensive set of operations, you can organize your hard disk and volume configuration for optimal performance, while keeping your data safe.
Disk and volume management operations Experience the vast array of disk and volume management operations: Resize, move, copy, split and merge volumes without data loss or destruction Delete volumes and clean up disks Format and label volumes, change file systems, clusters size, assign volume letters, and set volumes active Hide/unhide volumes Specify i-node density Initialize newly added hard disks Explore volume data, even on Linux volumes, before performing operations Preview cha
2 Acronis Disk Director components This section contains a list of Acronis Disk Director components with a brief description of their functionality. Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Agent for Windows The agent provides disk management functionality such as, creating, resizing and merging volumes, cloning disks, converting disks, changing a disk partitioning style between MBR and GPT or changing a disk label, etc. These operations can be performed either in the operating system or using bootable media.
3 Installation and operation 3.1 System requirements System requirements Component Memory (above the OS and running applications) Disk space required during installation or update Disk space occupied Additional by the component(s) Complete installation 300 MB 2 GB 1.
3.3 Supported file systems Acronis Disk Director supports the following file systems for performing operations: FAT16 FAT32 NTFS Ext2 Ext3 Reiser3 Linux SWAP The operations resulting in a change of volume size—that is: Create, Resize, Copy, Move, Merge, Split—are not available for the XFS, Reiser4, HPFS and JFS file systems. 3.
6. Specify where to install the components. By default, the setup program will install components to the C:\Program Files\Acronis\. 7. Specify credentials for the account under which the agent service will run. By default, the setup program will create a dedicated user account for the service. 8. Confirm opening of the Microsoft Windows Firewall port. Details. Acronis Disk Director uses TCP port 9876 for local installation and for communication between components.
2. Connect the management console to the machine where the agent is installed. 3. In the Disk management view, examine the current layout of disks and volumes. 4. Add one or more management operations on disks and volumes to the queue of pending operations. These operations will take effect only after you commit them. 5. In the Disk management view, examine how the layout of disks and volumes will look when the pending operations are completed. 6. Commit the pending operations.
3.10.2 Upgrading from previous product versions Preparation If the languages of the two products are different, uninstall Acronis Disk Director 10 before installing Acronis Disk Director 11. Otherwise, the installation will fail. The procedures below assume that you have an upgrade license key, but you can also use these procedures if you have a full license key.
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