Administrator Guide

● Data Deduplication

5. Confirm the volume creation settings and click Create.

The new volume is displayed in the Volumes pane.

Managing a volume

Disk Management is used to manage disks and volumes. To access Disk Management, start the Server Manager, from the

Tools menu, click Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.

● You can initialize disks, create volumes, and format volumes with the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS file systems using Disk

Management.

● Disk Management enables you to perform most disk-related tasks without restarting the system or interrupting users.

Extending a volume

You can add more space to existing primary partitions and logical drives by extending them into adjacent un-allocated space on

the same disk. To extend a basic volume, it must be raw or formatted with the NTFS file system.

Extending a basic volume using the Windows interface

To extend a basic volume using the Windows interface:

Prerequisites

NOTE:

If you do not have un-allocated disk space on your disk, use Dell OpenManage Server Administrator to extend your

LUN before you extend your volume.

Steps

1. Start Server Manager, from the Tools menu, click Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.

2. In Disk Management, right-click the Basic Volume you want to extend.

3. Click Extend Volume.

The Extend Volume Wizard window is displayed.

4. Complete the on-screen tasks, select the disks, type the disk space, and close the wizard.

Extending a basic volume using CLI

To extend a basic volume using CLI:

Steps

1. Open the CLI window and enter diskpart.

2. At the DISKPART prompt, enter list volume.

3. Make note of the basic volume you want to extend.

4. At the DISKPART prompt:

a. Type select volume<volume number> to select the basic volume number that you want to extend into contiguous,

empty space on the same disk.

b. Type extend [size=<size>] to extend the selected volume by size megabytes (MB).

Shrinking a volume

You can decrease the space used by primary partitions and logical drives by shrinking them into adjacent, contiguous space on

the same disk. For example, if you require an additional partition but do not have additional disks, you can shrink the existing

Using your NAS system