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We use letters like C, D, E when defining disks on “Windows Server”.<\/p>\n

If the number of our disks increases, we may not be able to find letters after a while.<\/p>\n

Especially with servers with large SQL Server system, we experience this problem.<\/p>\n

For example, you might have increased the number of data files in a file group. And maybe yo have put all files different disk. So that the front end I\/O becomes more.<\/p>\n

You can find the details in the article “What is Database File Group And How To Recreate Large Tables In Another File Group<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

That’s why we can use the Mounted Drive method for SQL Server.<\/p>\n

First of all, we want to define a Lun with a symbolic size of 10 GB from the storage group.<\/p>\n

Then we connect to disk management via windows server.<\/p>\n

You can connect by typing diskmgmt.msc on windows home .<\/p>\n

As in the picture below, right click on the place where Unallocated is written and we click new simple volume.<\/p>\n

In the next screen we are clicking next.<\/p>\n

We choose H from the right side of “Assing the following drive letter” and define our drive.<\/p>\n

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Once our drive is defined, we will now mount all other drives under this drive.<\/p>\n

For example, we have 20 lun’s.\u00a0 We’ll have to do the following for each of them.<\/p>\n

Right-click as above and click new simple volume.<\/p>\n

By selecting “Mount in the following empty NTFS folder” as follows, we click Browse.<\/p>\n

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After clicking Browse, we select the drive that we created above and click “new folder” as below to name the folder Disk01 and click next.<\/p>\n

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In Incoming Screen, we set Allocation Unit Size to 64 with best practice value for SQL Server.<\/p>\n

In Volume Label, we give the file name Disk01 which we created and click ok.<\/p>\n

We repeat this process for 20 disks.<\/p>\n

And we can access our disks as “H:\\Disk01”, as if it were a file under H drive, and we are able to identify our databases on these disks as well.<\/p>\n\n

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  We use letters like C, D, E when defining disks on “Windows Server”. If the number of our disks increases, we may not be able to find letters after a while. Especially with servers with large SQL Server system, we experience this problem. For example, you might have increased the number of data files …<\/p>\n

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