Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016 — Question 59

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains two servers named Server1 and Server2 that run Windows Server
2016.
Each server has an operating system disk and four data disks. All of the disks are locally attached SATA disks. Each disk is a basic disk, is initialized as an MBR disk, and has a single NTFS volume.
You plan to implement Storage Spaces Direct by using the data disks on Server1 and Server2.
You need to prepare the data disks for the Storage Spaces Direct implementation.
What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Format the volumes on the data disks as exFAT.
• B. Initialize the data disks as GPT disks and create an ReFS volume on each disk.
• C. Convert the data disks to dynamic disks.
• D. Delete the volumes from the data disks.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because Storage Spaces Direct requires the data disks to be empty without any existing volumes. The other options are incorrect as they either involve formatting or changing the disk type, which does not prepare the disks properly for Storage Spaces Direct.