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Windows 2008 Dynamic Volumes are they supported?

Shamus27 — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:53:29 GMT

With a P4000 - with a standard thin or full provisioned Volume is a dynamic volume supported when is the disk managment MMC in Windows 2008R2.

It doesn't work for me and was wondering should it?

Re: Windows 2008 Dynamic Volumes are they supported?

oikjn — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:53:52 GMT

You can definitely connect a windows server to a LUN (thick or thin) and configure a disk as a dynamic disk. I"ve done it for both. Actually used is as a screwed up way to do a live migration from one array to another by setting up a raid1 mirror of the os and the after it was synced I broke it and removed the original drive. That isn't something I woudl suggest doing as a standard migration method, but it worked when I had no other option.

What do you want a dynamic disk LUN? Only reason I could think is for a DPM server or the situation I said above.

Re: Windows 2008 Dynamic Volumes are they supported?

Shamus27 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:50:45 GMT

Thanks for your reply and answer.

A test team asked for them, to shrink and expand volumes and then recreate.

Have tried again and can convert a disk from basic to dynamic but cannot create a dynamic disk from a new volume presented, that helps a lot.

Re: Windows 2008 Dynamic Volumes are they supported?

Joris Vliegen — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:11:34 GMT

Hey Shamus,

It can be done but its not supported. When you reboot you wil have to manually reconnect your volume every time.

http://www.google.be/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=microsoft%20iscsi%20initiator%20%2B%22dynamic%20disk%22&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.microsoft.com%2Fdownload%2Fa%2Fe%2F9%2Fae91dea1-66d9-417c-ade4-92d824b871af%2Fuguide.doc&ei=g0c2UPHkPMqKswaIioHwDQ&usg=AFQjCNFr53hAJBhIWjVhxjJ1JB31zUb97w

Kind regards,

Joris Vliegen

Re: Windows 2008 Dynamic Volumes are they supported?

Bart_Heungens — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:46:43 GMT

Hi,

The document states that 2003 and older is not supported but 2008 and higher yes...

So if U have 2008 it should be OK...

Kr,

Bart

Re: Windows 2008 Dynamic Volumes are they supported?

oikjn — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:17:45 GMT

interesting. I was using 2008 and can say that manual reconnection is definitely not a problem.