8. Click edit icon in the Snapshot Size Limit section and select either of the following options to
configure the snapshot size limit:
• No Limit
• Use Limit
Snapshot is a backup copy created at a particular point in time. Snapshot size limits the amount of
volume capacity used to store backup copies. Size limit is capacity on volume that can be used to store
these backups. To create a snapshot, you need a minimum of 300 MiB space.
9. Click OK.
10. Select either of the following file systems from the File System section:
• NTFS (default): Provides continuously available volumes that can be accessed simultaneously from
multiple nodes of a failover cluster. It continuously monitors and updates the issues in the background
without taking the volume offline. For more information, see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/
library/dn466522(v=ws.11).aspx.
• ReFS: Resilient File System (ReFS) has additional file system features. For more information, see
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831724(v=ws.11).aspx.
11. Select the drive letter from the Drive Letter drop-down menu.
12. Select the allocation unit from the Allocation Unit drop-down menu and click Create.
Creating Volumes using Server Manager
The following table describes the fields that are available on Create Volume page through Server Manager:
Field Description
Volume Name of the Volume
Status Represents the state of the volume
File System Label Label assigned to a specific volume
Provisioning Type of provisioning. For example, Thin or Fixed
Capacity Total capacity of the volume
Free Space Available free space
Deduplication rate
Deduplication Savings
Percent Used Horizontal graph representing the utilized storage
space
You can create new volume using Server Manager:
1. Go to Windows Server Manager > File and Storage Services > Volumes.
2. Click Tasks, located at the right corner.
3. Select New Volume....
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