Select Destination Disks; Set The Volume Size - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER VIRTUAL EDITION - UPDATE 3 User Manual

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Striped
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Mirrored
 RAID-5
You will obtain a brief description of every type of volume for better understanding of the
advantages and limitations of each possible volume architecture.
If the current operating system, installed on this machine, does not support the selected type of volume , you
will receive the appropriate warning. In this case the Next button will be disabled and you will have to select
another type of volume to proceed with the new volume creation.
After you click the Next button, you will proceed forward to the next wizard page: Select destination
disks (p. 297).

Select destination disks

The next wizard page will prompt you to choose the disks, whose space will be used for the volume
creation.
To create a basic volume:
 Select a destination disk and specify the unallocated space to create the basic volume on.
To create a Simple/Spanned volume:
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Select one or more destination disks to create the volume on.
To create a Mirrored volume:
 Select two destination disks to create the volume on.
To create a Striped volume:
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Select two or more destination disks to create the volume on.
To create a RAID-5 volume:
 Select three destination disks to create the volume on.
After you choose the disks, the wizard will calculate the maximum size of the resulting volume,
depending on the size of the unallocated space on the disks you chose and the requirements of the
volume type you have previously decided upon.
If you are creating a dynamic volume and select one or several basic disks, as its destination, you will
receive a warning that the selected disk will be converted to dynamic automatically.
If need be, you will be prompted to add the necessary number of disks to your selection, according to
the chosen type of the future volume.
If you click the Back button, you will be returned to the previous page: Select the type of volume
being created (p. 296).
If you click the Next button, you will proceed to the next page: Set the volume size (p. 297).

Set the volume size

On the third wizard page, you will be able to define the size of the future volume, according to the
previously made selections. In order to choose the necessary size between the minimum and the
maximum values, use the slider or enter the necessary values into the special windows between the
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