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Do you have a RAID controller which is smart, which will allow you to add these existing hard drives, and create a RAID set, which destroying the current installation?<br />
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Do you have any current VMs installed?<br />
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You could use Windows Server Backup included with Windows 2012, to create a Local Backup or Windows Azure backup, and then restore this backup after you have re-created your new RAID array.
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Do you have a RAID controller which is smart, which will allow you to add these existing hard drives, and create a RAID set, which destroying the current installation?

Do you have any current VMs installed?

You could use Windows Server Backup included with Windows 2012, to create a Local Backup or Windows Azure backup, and then restore this backup after you have re-created your new RAID array.

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I don't have a Raid controller.I have PC with 16gb memory and windows2012 installed in it.I would like have a mirror copy of it.<br />
I have currently VMs in it. In d drive<br />
Creating new storage pool is better  or something else you have in mind.<br />
Convert to dynamic add as a mirror?<br />
 If the first drive fails I dont want to stop the operation. Please advise
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I don't have a Raid controller.I have PC with 16gb memory and windows2012 installed in it.I would like have a mirror copy of it.
I have currently VMs in it. In d drive
Creating new storage pool is better  or something else you have in mind.
Convert to dynamic add as a mirror?
 If the first drive fails I dont want to stop the operation. Please advise

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I heard that to run VM disk should be basic<br />
Dynamic is not recommended<br />
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Will it become a problem in future?
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I heard that to run VM disk should be basic
Dynamic is not recommended

Will it become a problem in future?

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Personally we are not fans, of dynamic disks, or software RAID, and prefer hardware storage RAID controllers.
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Personally we are not fans, of dynamic disks, or software RAID, and prefer hardware storage RAID controllers.

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Me too hardly deal with it. <br />
This is a requirement. &nbsp;I thought will discuss with our EE team b4 proceeding.<br />
I apologize if I asked a wrong question
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Me too hardly deal with it.
This is a requirement.  I thought will discuss with our EE team b4 proceeding.
I apologize if I asked a wrong question

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Do you think the new feature of 2012 will help to accomplish this?
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Do you think the new feature of 2012 will help to accomplish this?

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No fault tolerant solution should replace good backups however.
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No fault tolerant solution should replace good backups however.

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@aces4all00<br />
How to add the os partition to the pool?
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@aces4all00
How to add the os partition to the pool?

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I have one server installed I have 2 more hdds with me.<br />
How to have a backup/Raid to the existing hdd in win2012?<br />
I have Hyper-v installed in it.<br />
Your quick response is highly appreciated
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I have one server installed I have 2 more hdds with me.
How to have a backup/Raid to the existing hdd in win2012?
I have Hyper-v installed in it.
Your quick response is highly appreciated

Add logical drives from 2 physical disk with Hyper-V 2012

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

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Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

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Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.