You have a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2.
On Server1, you open Computer Management as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
You need to ensure that you can create a 3-TB volume on Disk 1.
What should you do first?
A.
Create a storage pool.
B.
Convert the disk to a GPT disk.
C.
Create a VHD, and then attach the VHD.
D.
Convert the disk to a dynamic disk.
IMO the answer is D
Dynamic disks provide features that basic disks do not, such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple disks (spanned and striped volumes) and the ability to create fault-tolerant volumes (mirrored and RAID-5 volumes). Like basic disks, dynamic disks can use the MBR or GPT partition styles on systems that support both
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Answer is correct. It’s B.
I just tested this in my lab. I created a 4Tb VHDX file, when I brought it online it asked if I wanted it to be BASIC or GPT. I said BASIC and it automatically partitioned into 2 just like in the screen shot.
From there, if I right click on it (where it says DISK 1) – I only get the option to convert to GPT. The option to convert to Dynamic is greyed out.
Once it is converted to GPT, I then get the option to convert to a Dynamic Disk.
Therefore D is invalid because you must convert to GPT first, before becoming dynamic.
You can test this easily enough in a lab for yourselves if you want. Just attach a 4000Gb dynamically expanding VHDX to a test VM.
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IMO the answer is D.
You can not extend basic discs.
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The correct answer is B. The disk is an MBR disk, which can only address 2048GB of space, this is why there is two blocks of unallocated space showing. The second block is actually unusable unallocated space, converting to a GPT disk removes this limitation and will allow the whole of the disk to be used.
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