Lab 7-5: Manage Disk Redundancy

What is the minimum number of physical disks required to create a RAID 1 or mirrored volume of the Windows operating system?

2

What is the minimum number of physical disks required to create a RAID 5 or striped volume with parity?

3

To increase the throughput when reading databases from a server, you decided to put the database file in a software-based RAID 0 or striped volume. You are well aware that RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy in the event of a disk failure. What other cost-effective measures can you apply to ensure that you can recover the database when the database server's disk stops working?

Create a daily backup of the database file.

You have a Windows Server 2016 computer with three physical hard disks installed. The first hard disk called Disk 0 holds the operating system. It has some unallocated partition. The second hard disk called Disk 1 hosts an application and it has some unallocated partition likewise. The third hard disk called Disk 2 is running custom accounting application and it has some unallocated partition as well. You right-clicked an unallocated partition in Disk 0 to create a RAID-5 volume and noticed that New RAID-5 Volume is greyed out.Why is the command to create a New RAID-5 Volume unavailable?

Disk 0 is current boot volume where Windows starts-up. The disk cannot be added as member of a RAID-5 volume.

Which of the following software-based RAID levels are supported by Windows Server 2016? [Choose all that apply].

RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5