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The following image shows the Disk Management overview for several drives. Disk 0 has three partitions, and Disk 1 has two partitions. On Disk 0, the C: drive for Windows uses the most disk space. Two other partitions for system operations and recovery use a smaller amount of disk space.
Disk Management supports a wide range of drive tasks, but some tasks need to be completed by using a different tool. Here are some common disk management tasks to complete with other tools in Windows:
Basic disk storage supports partition-oriented disks. A basic disk is a physical disk that contains basic volumes (primary partitions, extended partitions, or logical drives). On master boot record (MBR) disks, you can create up to four primary partitions on a basic disk, or up to three primary partitions and one extended partition. You can also use free space on an extended partition to create logical drives. On GUID partition table (GPT) disks, you can create up to 128 primary partitions. Because you are not limited to four partitions on GPT disks, you do not have to create extended partitions on logical drives.
Disk Management creates the new partition or logical drive and displays it in the appropriate basic disk in the Disk Management window. If you chose to format the partition in step 6, the format process now starts.
First introduced in Windows XP, Disk Management is a Windows built-in utility that enables you to manage hard disk drives and the associating partitions or volumes. To partition a hard drive with Disk Management in Windows Server 2016 is very convenient. You can access it via one of the following methods:
With my IT outfit, we have templates to deploy servers with a dinky C drive/partition (10GB) and a larger D drive/partition. Why do this? Windows (at least until recently and at that minimally) has no real use of dynamic mount points in general server deployments.
File servers benefit from separate volumes if you use quotas, as these are usually set per volume. (e.g. Put your user's home directories on one volume, profiles on another, company data on another etc.)
The second reason we do this is to allow for different sized drives/different raid levels for our OS and data partitions. For example we would get (i'm rounding numbers and pulling them outta thin air here) 2x100GB SAS drive for an OS Mirror partition, and then 6x700GB SAS drives for a RAID 10 data partition. doing that could easily save you $1000 on the cost of the system at the end of the day.
Now as Evan has said this is really a personal preference that borders on "religious" belief. Honestly with the size of todays drives, either way will work fine. Do what you are comfortable with ... or what your corporate standards dictate.
The thought of virtulization brings up an interesting topic. As Evan pointed out, most of what I had to say was talking about different RAID containter. However, in my VMWare enviroement i have a base template of 20 GB. Now the interesting part comes here, all of my servers are hosted on a SAN and I have two volumes presented.
90% of the time these two disks are on the same RAID set, but are two different "physical" drives to the machine. As usual virtualization brings a layer of obscurity to the "standard" IT thought process.
(1) The corrupted NTFS
I had a server with two partitions, one for OS and one for data. At some point over the years, something went wrong with the data partition, and a single file nested about 6 levels deep became impossible to delete or rename. In the end, the only solution was to wipe the partition and reload the data back on. Obviously, it would have been much more painful without partitions.
(2) The full data partition
The same server as above, at another point in it's life, managed to end up with a completely full data partition while there were dozens of GB available on the OS partition. As a stop-gap measure, I used a junction point to temporarily store data on the OS partition until the new server arrived. It was ugly, but it worked. Avoiding partitions would have meant avoiding ugly fixes.
(3) The Server 2008 UAC
On a newer server, I discovered that you may have trouble administering any drive except the C: drive, unless you are the local Administrator or Domain Administrator. Being in the Administrators group is not sufficient. This is due to an oddity with UAC, which I have disabled for now.
My preferred course of action is to completely separate OS and Data by having a separate RAID 1 array just for the operating system. This allows a great deal of flexibility. For example, I could upgrade all the harddrives used for data storage without having to change the OS installation at all.
We use multiple partitions on our servers with the C: drive dedicated to the OS. Our other partitions we use mainly for storage of data such as databases, user files/folders, shared files/folders, etc.
It depends on the service, of course, but there is value in this. As alluded to elsewhere, different partitions can have different underlaying storage characteristics. As such, different drive letters should represent different underlaying drives rather than partitions. Once upon a time it was a wise move to put your Swap file on its own partition, but that's no longer as beneficial as it once was. Otherwise, keep your C: drive for OS and obstreperous applications that refuse to go anywhere else, and your relocatable apps elsewhere.
With virtualization, you can have your C: drive be file-backed storage and yet have your D:, E:, F:, etc. drives really be NPIV direct presentations of block-level storage. Or have your OS drive be the mirrored pair of disks (which may be 72GB or 144GB at that) and your non-OS drives be a RAID10 set, or even something else entirely.
If your system partition is small, it takes less time to run diagnostics and repairs on that partition, resulting in less downtime. For example, if you have an unexpected disk or filesystem problem and have to reboot to run chkdsk on a 2 TB combined system+data partition, you might not have the server back online until tomorrow. If that partition is only 20 GB, you could be back up and running in less than half an hour. You can also backup or image the partition in less time.
10GB boot partitions seem overly small nowdays 25 to 80GB volumes seem more comfortable to me. No matter the actual size I don't format drives to their full capacity for multiple reasons most of which go back to performance concerns.
If the D partition on the same physical drive is something for rarely used data or emergency use only then C: still gets the benefit of the short stroke effect. The key there is keeping others from using that space as though it were primary storage. Any regular use of the secondary partition wastes this advantage.
I would also add that small partitions may allow you to use a spare 36GB or 73GB drive as a spare for a degraded RAID 1 as opposed to having to leave the array degraded until a new drive arrives. You can also use SSDs that might be on the smaller side to takeover a small partition if you haven't sized yourself out of that option.
Dont forget file fragmentation too, a data drive on a server would typically fill up with log files and constantly expanding databases. The system partition also suffers from the same issue with updates and internal logs for windows. But a fragmentation issue on the system partition will bring the entire system to a halt, where as the same issue on a data drive will only affect application performance.
There is also the issue of the drives partition table, and while it's a small point, the larger the table the slower the ability to index and search it, especially if you have massive amounts of files.
In my experience, the most important point is bad blocks and scandisk: you really don't ever want to see a 10TB volume getting bad blocks and in need of a scandisk, specially in an important server, as it may take several (or many!) hours to end, while your users are first asking for their files, then blaming the IT stuff, and finally shouting at you.
If you have partitions, bad blocks will be in a small drive (at least, those preventing your server from working), which will get scanned and fixed fast enough so your users don't shout at you (because, let's face it, they'll still blame the IT stuff).
When performing an upgrade or recovering the OS, it is much easier and cleaner when the operating system resides on a dedicated volume. In virtual environments, one can simply copy the data ".VHD" to a new server for restoring/upgrading the service.
This functionality can only be on/off on a per volume basis. It is most efficient to dedicate a separate volume since this technology works by allocating restore points based on available free space. The more free space available, the further back one can perform a restore. The OS drive will consume space for installed updates, temporary program files, etc. Allocating previous version of this just means restore points will be shorten and isn't a good use of the technology.
Ok. I must be missing something simple or am blind. I have a clustered ESX server, freshly installed. I created a new virtual machine with the wizard and just default settings including a Hard Disk. I attached the CD drive to an ISO image and powered it up. Had to use the keyboard because VMware Tools can't be installed until the OS is on the machine. The windows installer starts, but then says it couldn't find any hard drives. Did I miss a step somewhere along the line?
I have 8 HP ProLiant DL380 servers that are mounted in a data center. I have to deploy Windows Server 2016 Datacenter operating system on all of them using a particular customer's (modified) ISO.
Unfortunately, the only way I can access this installation ISO is inside the DC security zone, which means I will have to create a bootable USB drive on-premise to install the farm. Another problem is that according to customer's SLA using any additional software for creating bootable drives is prohibited.Is there any way of creating a Windows Server 2016 bootable USB using only native Windows 2016 Server tools?
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