Managing Disks

Windows Server 2022 requires a computer with at least one storage drive (in most cases, this is your C:\ drive). You can connect a storage device using different bus types, such as IDE, SATA, SAS, and USB. Before you can utilize a storage device in Windows, you need to initialize it and create a partitioning scheme.

You can use two partitioning schemes: the older format of Master Boot Record (MBR) and the more recent GUID Partition Table (GPT). The MBR scheme, first introduced with the PC DOS 2 in 1983, had some restrictions. For example, the largest partition supported with MBR is 2 TB. And to create more than four primary partitions, you would need an extended partition and then create additional partitions inside the extended partition. For larger disk devices, this can be inefficient

The GPT scheme enabled much larger drives (OS-imposed partition limits) and up to 128 partitions per drive. You typically use GPT partitioning with Windows Server. If you built the VMs...