Dell PowerVault NX3200 - Manual (Page 31)

Deleting A Volume
To delete a volume:
CAUTION: You must delete all shares and shadow copies from your volume before deleting it. If a volume is
removed before all shares of that volume have been removed, the Server Manager might not display shares
correctly.
1. Open the Server Manager, click on the Tools menu, and select Computer Management → Storage → Disk
Management.
2. In Disk Management, right-click the Volume you want to delete and select the Delete Volume option.
Delete Simple Volume confirmation window is displayed.
3. Select Yes on the confirmation screen to delete the volume.
Additional Information When Deleting A Volume
New features of disk management include:
Simpler partition
creation When you right-click a Volume, you can choose whether to create a basic, spanned, or striped
partition directly from the menu.
Disk conversion
options When you add more than four partitions to a basic disk, you are prompted to convert the disk to
dynamic or to the GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition style.
Extend and shrink
partitions You can extend and shrink partitions directly from the Windows interface.
Data Deduplication
Data Deduplication is a new feature that works at a sub-file level and stores more data in less space by segmenting files
into small chunks, identifying duplicate data, and maintaining a single copy of each data chunk. The files are
compressed and organized in special container files in the System Volume Information folder.
After enabling a volume for deduplication and optimizing the data, the volume contains unoptimized files, optimized files,
chunk store and additional free space.
Data Deduplication has the following requirements:
• At least one data volume on the virtual machine or the server running Windows Storage Server 2012.
• The systems connected to a server over the network.
NOTE: Data Deduplication replaces SIS (Single Instance Storage) feature in Windows Storage Server 2012. When
using Data Deduplication feature for the first time or migrating from a previous version of Windows Storage Server
to Windows Storage Server 2012. For more information on
Data Deduplication Interoperability , see :
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831454.aspx.
NOTE: To set up a server, enable data deduplication, and optimize a volume, see Install and Configure Data
Deduplication at: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831434.aspx.
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