Virtual Disks; Data Pro Tectio N; Storage Provisioning - Seagate SRPS20 Administration Manual

4. Choose Next.
5. At the Storage Pool Name window, enter a name for your storage pool and choose Next.
6. Choose the hard drives for the new storage pool and choose Next.
7. Review the Confirmation page and choose Create.

Virtual disks

The New Virtual Disk wizard asks you to assign the following:
A level of data protection
A level of storage provisioning
Data protec on
Use one of the resiliency types below:
Mirror (recommended)–One or two extra copies of each file are written across a stripe that includes two
or more hard drives. Mirroring hard drives reduces capacity by as much as 50% but it also offers
enhanced performance when compared to parity.
Parity–Parity information is written alongside data across a stripe that includes three or more hard drives.
Parity offers greater capacity than mirroring but performance is reduced. Parity is a very good option for
archival environments.
Simple (No data protection)–Though it provides the best performance, choosing Simple can lead to data
loss should a hard drive fail.

Storage provisioning

Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials offers two types of provisioning:
Fixed (recommended)–Storage space is used based upon the total capacity assigned to the virtual disk.
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