Acronis Disk Director Advanced Server - 11.0 Quick Start Guide
Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced
Server
Quick Start Guide
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1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11
Advanced
Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for managing disks and
volumes on local and remote machines. With a comprehensive set of operations, you can organize
your hard disk and volume configuration for optimal performance, while keeping your data safe.
Key features
Acronis Disk Director offers many features including:
New! Create both basic and dynamic volumes
The handy Create Volume wizard has been improved to support dynamic volumes creation. Now,
in addition to basic volumes, you can easily create dynamic volumes in Acronis Disk Director to:
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 and RAID-5 volumes*
New! Add, remove, or break mirrored volumes*
Make your basic or simple volume fault-tolerant in just one action by adding a mirror. If you need
extra unallocated space on a disk containing one of the mirrors—remove a mirror. Break a
mirrored volume to get two independent simple volumes with initially identical content.
New! Copy or move a volume of one type as a volume of another type
Change the type of a volume when copying or moving it. For example, you can copy the contents
of a mirrored volume to a spanned volume.
New! Convert primary volumes to logical and vice versa
Convert a primary volume to logical to create a fifth volume on a disk that currently has four
primary volumes.
New! Repair RAID-5 volumes
Restore a RAID-5 volume performance by reconstructing the data of the failed member on
another disk.
New! Convert basic disks to dynamic and vice versa
Convert the existing basic disks to dynamic to achieve additional disk reliability for data storage.
New! Convert GPT disks to MBR and vice versa
Change the partitioning scheme of your disk to the way you need it.
New! Import foreign disks
Make dynamic disks added from another machine accessible for the system.
New! Changing a disk status: online to offline and vice versa*
Change a disk status to offline in order to protect it from unintentional use.
New! Disk cloning
The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without
reinstalling operating systems and applications. It transfers all of the source disk data to a target
disk. The source disk volumes can be cloned to the target disk "as is", or resized automatically
according to the target disk size.
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