ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR 11 ADVANCED SERVER - User manual

Acronis® Disk Director® 11
Advanced Workstation
Advanced Server
Main Features
New! Windows® 7 and Windows 2008
and Windows 2008 R2 support
Resize, move, copy, split, and merge
volumes without losing your data
Create, convert, copy and move
volumes
New! Dynamic Disk Support*
New! GPT disk support
New! Add or break mirrored volumes*
New! Span volume across multiple
physical disks
New! Convert basic disk to GPT and
vice versa
Boot from CD/DVD or USB stick
New! Clone disk to a replacement
HDD
Recover lost or deleted partitions
No reboot during installation
Works with Acronis® Backup &
Recovery™ 10
New! Repair RAID-5 column
New! Remote management
New! WinPE media
(*) for supported operating systems
Maximize the performance of your servers or workstations with
powerful partition and hard disk drive management utilities.
Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Server and Advanced Workstation provide
powerful partition and hard disk drive management utilities to ensure your
systems are running efficiently. Built upon award-winning technologies from
Acronis, the products minimize downtime for maintenance and provide maximum
server performance of your mission critical applications.
Dynamically split, merge, resize, copy and move partitions within Windows,
minimizing downtime. Perform advanced hard disk drive editing tasks, such as
recovering important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or extract information
that was lost due to different soft- and hardware failures or virus attack. All
actions are put in a pending state until the servers are rebooted. Thus, you can
make changes to servers during business hours and wait until after-hours to
commit changes, minimizing user disruption.
Moreover, these products are ideal companions to Acronis® Backup & Recovery™
10. Use Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server and Advanced Workstation to
manage volumes and maximize system performance, such as freeing up unused
free space from one partition and transferring to another. Then, use Acronis
Backup & Recovery 10 to backup an entire server or workstation, enabling
recovery in minutes without any reinstallation of the applications, operating
systems and server or workstation configurations.
DATA SHEET
View and manage disk properties

DATA SHEET
Supported Operating Systems Supported File Systems
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server
• Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 (all editions, including SBS)
• Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (all editions, including SBS)
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation
• Windows XP (all editions)
• Windows Vista (all editions)
• Windows 7 (all editions)
• FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
• Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS3, Linux SWAP
• Special sector-by-sector support for copying and
moving partitions of any other type
Feature Description
New! Manage all disks and volumes with
extreme flexibility
Carry out a vast array of disk and volume management operations:
• Resize, move, copy, split and merge volumes without data loss or destruction
• Format and label volumes, assign volume letters and set volumes active
New! Dynamic Disk Support* Spread volumes over several disks
New! GPT disk support Use with GPT disks to create volumes over 2TB and get additional disk reliability against possible data damage
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
New! Span volume across multiple
physical disks Optimize your system by combining free space on different hard disk drives and get larger volume
Ease of Use Intuitive interface and wizards guide you to get the most out of your system
Command Line Interface Create scripts for application tasks
Remote Management Powerful and easy-to-use tool for managing disks and volumes on local and remote machines
New! Convert basic disks to Dynamic Disks
and vice versa
Convert existing basic disks to Dynamic Disks to achieve additional disk reliability
for data storage
New! Convert MBR disks to GPT
and vice versa
Why would you need to convert an MBR disk to a GPT basic disk?
• If you need to make a volume who size is over 2TB
• If you need more than four primary volumes on one disk
Boot from CD/DVD or USB stick Boot from a CD/DVD or USB stick and manage all your volumes
New! Clone disks to a replacement HDD The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without reinstalling operating systems
and applications
Disk Editor Edit disk at the sector level
Recover lost or deleted partitions Acronis Recovery Expert helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks
Hardware Requirements Minimum Requirements Recommended
Boot Firmware Bios-based**
Computer Processor Modern processor, 800MHz or faster 1GHz 32-bit or 64-bit X86 processor
System memory 512MB 1GB or more
Screen Resolution 800x600 pixels 1024x768 or higher
Installation Disk Space 2GB
Other hardware Mouse CD/DVD recording drive, or a flash drive, for bootable media creation
** Machines that are based on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) are not supported
* For operating systems that support this feature
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2010-09
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