Administrator and Maintenance Guide User guide

MANAGING STORAGE ON THE WD SENTINEL SERVER
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WD SENTINEL DS5100/DS6100
ADMINISTRATOR AND MAINTENANCE GUIDE
3. Select your storage method. Options are:
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Storage Spaces: A Windows Server 2012 technology that allows you to virtualize
storage by grouping industry-standard disks into storage pools. Virtual disks called
storage spaces are then created from the available capacity in the storage pools.
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RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) lets you store the same data
in different places on multiple hard drives, providing necessary redundancy, greater
performance, and data integrity.
4. Click Next.
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For Storage Spaced, continue to “Setting up Storage Spaces” on page 44
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For RAID, continue to “Setting Up RAID Storage” on page 45.
Setting up Storage Spaces
1. On the Storage Spaces screen, click Create a new pool and storage space.
2. At the warning prompts, click Yes.
3. Select the drive(s) you’d like to set up with Storage Spaces, then click Create Pools.