A systems administrator is configuring a new physical server that will function as a virtualization host. The server has a single 10 TB disk designated for storing virtual machine files. The storage plan requires the creation of five separate partitions on this disk. Which partitioning scheme should the administrator use to meet these requirements?
The correct choice is GUID Partition Table (GPT). The scenario presents two requirements that the Master Boot Record (MBR) scheme cannot meet. First, MBR has a maximum disk size limit of 2 TB, and the disk in the scenario is 10 TB. Second, MBR is limited to a maximum of four primary partitions, and the plan requires five. GPT overcomes both of these limitations, supporting disks larger than 2 TB and allowing for up to 128 primary partitions in a standard Windows implementation. Logical Volume Management (LVM) is a disk management system for Linux and is not a partition scheme itself. Resilient File System (ReFS) is a file system, which is created on a partition, not a type of partition scheme.