Windows 2008 Dynamic Volumes are they supported?

[Shamus27]

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?

[oikjn · Accepted solution]

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.

[Shamus27]

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.

[Joris Vliegen]

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

[Bart_Heungens]

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

[oikjn]

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