Drive mirroring with a Nimble volume?

[mfeightner34]

Does anyone know if it's at all possible to use a Nimble volume to mirror an existing Windows drive, specifically on 2008 R2? 

Even if I create a Nimble volume with 8192 block size, Windows complains about wrong block size and it still shows up on the 2008R2 server as 4096.

Thanks,

MattF

[Nick_Dyer]

Hi Matt. That sounds like you're not setting the NTFS Allocation Unit Size correctly more than anything else?

[pbitpro96 · Accepted solution]

I agree with Nick there.

Online the Nimble disk, format it with 8K allocation, then add it as a mirror to the original windows disk and let it sync up. It sounds like you might be just skipping a step.

I don't think you need Dynamic disks for this unless you are doing something more...

[mfeightner34]

We ended up not going this route anyway, so not sure what the problem was, but thank you Nick and Paul for your replies. I appreciate your feedback and guidance.