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Add and Remove Hard drive in existing Storage Pool. Prerequisites. >    New Physical Hard drives are connected to the Windows 2012 server. Steps to Extend existing Storage Pool. > Loging to the Windows 2012 server with Administrator ID. > Click on Server Manager ikon on the desktop to open Server Manager application. > In Server Manager window click on File and Storage Services . > In Sub Menu select Storage Pools than select existing Storage Pool which you want to extend. In the following screen I have selected " hyper " Storage Pool to extend. Click on TASKS button and select option Add Physical Disk . > Click on the available physical disk to add in the pool and click OK to continue. > New Physical Disk is added in the Storage Pool. Steps to Reduce existing Storage Pool. > Repeat the task 1, 2 and 3 from Extend existing Storage Pool. > In Sub Menu select Storage Pools than select existing Storag

Create Storage Pool. Once new additional Hardisks are attached to the Windows 2012 server. You can create Storage Pool for Virtual Hardisk for any size. After creating storage pool you can modify pool capacity with adding and removing hard drives. Prerequisites. > Windows 2012 Standard / Datacentre installed on hardware machine. > Additional Hard drives are attached to the machine. Steps to create Storage Pool. > Loging to the Windows 2012 server with Administrator ID. > On the desktop click on Server Manager ikon. > In Server Manager window select File and Storage Services option. > In sub menu option click on Storage Pools . Storage pool home page appears as follows. > In Storage pool tile select Primordial space on the server where you want to create Storage Pool. Than select TASKS button and select New Storage Pool . > Click Next to continue. > Give the Name to the Storage Pool and select the server from gr

Convert Server GUI Interface to Minimum Server Interface. Steps to convert GUI Interface to Minimum Interface. > Loging to the Windows 2012 Server with Administrator User. > Click on Server Manager ikon to open Server Manager window. > In Server Manager window click on Manage > Remove Roles and Features option. > Click Next to continue. > Select the option Select a server from the server pool than select the server from Server Pool list where you want to configure minimum interface. Click Next to continue. > Click Next button to continue. > Select User Interfaces and Infrastructure , And remove click from Server Graphical Shell option. Click Next to continue. > Enable Restart the destination server automatically if required option, Just click on Check Box to enable the option. > Click on Yes button to continue.       >  Click on Remove button to uninstall the feature. > Featur