ABSTRACT
How exactly do you stay in control of your disks and manage them efficiently? This chapter looks at how an enterprise can control hard drive management and discusses the fundamentals of disk management, the different volume types, and the various disk arrangements employed in servers. It goes into detail about initializing and formatting disks, as well as creating volumes and fault-tolerant disk systems. With the advent of Windows 2000, in particular, much has changed in the land of disk management. Terminology has been adjusted, functionality has been enriched, and we now have a whole new element: dynamic disks, which promise greater features for disk management on Windows-based systems than ever before. For the IT professional, it is particularly important to understand the difference between basic disks and dynamic disks and what this means to system functionality.
