Table of contents
1
Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced ...................................................................6
2
Acronis Disk Director components ..........................................................................................7
2.1
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Management Console ....................................................... 7
2.2
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Agent for Windows ........................................................... 7
2.3
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Bootable Media Builder .................................................... 8
3
Installation and upgrade ........................................................................................................9
3.1
Before installation ..................................................................................................................... 9
3.1.1
System requirements ...................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1.2
Supported operating systems ........................................................................................................................ 9
3.1.3
Supported file systems .................................................................................................................................. 10
3.1.4
Supported media ........................................................................................................................................... 10
3.1.5
Licensing policy .............................................................................................................................................. 10
3.2
Installation ...............................................................................................................................11
3.2.1
Where to install the components ................................................................................................................ 11
3.2.2
Installation procedure ................................................................................................................................... 11
3.2.3
Specifying credentials for Acronis services .................................................................................................. 11
3.3
Upgrading Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................12
3.3.1
Upgrading from demo to full product version ............................................................................................ 12
3.3.2
Upgrading from previous product versions ................................................................................................ 12
3.4
Uninstalling Acronis Disk Director ...........................................................................................13
3.5
Technical Support ....................................................................................................................14
4
Basic concepts ..................................................................................................................... 15
4.1
Basic and dynamic disks ...........................................................................................................15
4.2
Types of basic volumes ............................................................................................................16
4.3
Types of dynamic volumes ......................................................................................................16
4.4
Active, system, and boot volumes ...........................................................................................17
4.5
Dynamic volume types support ...............................................................................................18
4.6
Volume alignment in disks with a 4-KB sector size ..................................................................19
5
Getting started .................................................................................................................... 21
5.1
Precautions ..............................................................................................................................21
5.2
User privileges .........................................................................................................................21
5.3
Running Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................21
5.4
Using the management console ..............................................................................................22
5.4.1
"Disk management" view ............................................................................................................................. 23
5.4.2
"Tasks" view ................................................................................................................................................... 27
5.4.3
"Log" view ...................................................................................................................................................... 29
5.4.4
Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 31
5.4.5
Machine options............................................................................................................................................ 32
5.4.6
Collecting system information ..................................................................................................................... 33
5.5
How to .....................................................................................................................................33
