Dynamic volume, Fault tolerance, File – Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server - User Guide User Manual
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Disk 1
MBR
LDM
database
1 MB
Disk 2 Protecti
ve
MBR
GPT
Microsoft
Reserved
Partition (MSR)
LDM
database
GPT
LDM Metadata
partition
1 MB
A dynamic MBR disk (Disk 1) and a dynamic GPT disk (Disk 2).
For more information about dynamic disks please refer to the following Microsoft knowledge base
articles:
Disk Management (Windows XP Professional Resource Kit)
816307 Best practices for using dynamic disks on Windows Server 2003-based computers
Dynamic volume
A volume on one or more dynamic disks.
Dynamic volumes provide greater functionality as compared to basic volumes; but older operating
systems, such as Windows 98, might not be able to work with them.
Different types of dynamic volumes suit different purposes. For example, you can:
Increase the volume size beyond the capacity of a single disk, by using a spanned volume
Reduce access time to files, by using a striped volume
Achieve fault tolerance, by using a mirrored volume
For a complete list of volume types, see Volume type (p. 94).
F
Fault tolerance
The ability of a volume to ensure data integrity after a hardware failure.
Fault tolerance is usually achieved by introducing data redundancy, which enables preserving data in
case one of the hard disks containing the volume fails.
Examples of fault-tolerant volumes include mirrored (p. 90) and RAID-5 (p. 91) volumes.
File
A set of data, such as a text document, that is stored under an identifying name—for example:
Document.txt