Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Server

Provides you with powerful partition and hard disk management utilities to ensure your servers are running efficiently.

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Powerful partition and hard disk drive management utility maximizes server performance

Feature-rich Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Server is a disk management product for performing advanced disk layout operations. It inherits all the functionality of the previous version and adds exciting new capabilities like Dynamic Disk and GPT disk support, spanning a volume across multiple disks and much more. Built on Acronis' award-winning technologies, it allows you to move or merge partitions without data loss. It also minimizes downtime for server maintenance and enhances disk performance, because your servers need to be available 24x7.

Summary

Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Server provides you with powerful partition and hard disk management utilities to ensure your servers are running efficiently. Acronis has a long history of supporting Microsoft operating systems and this version includes full support for Windows Server 2008 R2 (including Microsoft Small Business Server). Dynamically split, merge, resize, copy and move partitions within Windows to minimize downtime. Perform advanced hard disk drive editing tasks, such as recovering important data areas of a hard drive and searching for and/or extracting information that was lost due to software and hardware failures or virus attack.

Partition Manager
Resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without data loss. Speeds creation of partition settings for new PCs.
Acronis Recovery Expert
Recover lost or accidentally deleted partitions.
Disk Editor
This disk drive repair tool allows you to perform advanced operations on your hard disk drive, such as restoration of boot records and hexadecimal editing.

Some other new features:

Dynamic Disk and GPT disk Support
Take advantage of built-in Microsoft functions.
Remote Management
Manage any disk from a central console.
Span volume across multiple physical disks
Big volumes are no longer a problem.

Take advantage

Enhance Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server’s capabilities with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 backup software.

Here's how you can take advantage of Acronis’ hard drive manager and disaster recovery software together:

  • Create two partitions on your system: one for your system files and one for your data files.
  • Image your system partition using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 backup before applying system changes, such as installing a new application or patch.
  • Create daily (or as often as you need) backups of your data partition.

Using two great Acronis products you will always have an image of your server and a backup of your data. This will save you valuable time in recoveries and reduce your storage requirements.

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Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Server brings together the most popular disk management functions for servers in a single suite.

  • 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® 11
  • New! Repair RAID-5 column
  • New! Remote management
  • New! WinPE media

* for supported operating systems

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New! Create both basic and dynamic volumes
The handy Create Volume wizard has been improved to support dynamic volumes creation. Now, in addition to basic volumes, you can easily create dynamic volumes in Acronis Disk Director to:
  • - Increase the volume size beyond the capacity of a single disk, by using a spanned volume
  • - Reduce access time to files, by using a striped volume
  • - Achieve fault tolerance, by using a mirrored and RAID-5 volumes*
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. Break a mirrored volume to get two independent simple volumes with initially identical content.
New! Copy or move a volume of one type as a volume of another type
Change the type of a volume when copying or moving it. For example, you can copy the contents of a mirrored volume to a spanned volume.
New! Convert primary volumes to logical and vice versa
Convert a primary volume to logical to create a fifth volume on a disk that currently has four primary volumes.
New! Repair RAID-5 volumes
Restore a RAID-5 volume performance by reconstructing the data of the failed member on another disk.
New! Convert basic disks to dynamic and vice versa
Convert the existing basic disks to dynamic to achieve additional disk reliability for data storage.
New! Convert GPT disks to MBR and vice versa
Change the partitioning scheme of your disk to the way you need it.
New! Import foreign disks
Make dynamic disks added from another machine accessible for the system.
New! Changing a disk status: online to offline and vice versa*
Change a disk status to offline in order to protect it from unintentional use.
New! Disk cloning
The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without reinstalling operating systems and applications. It transfers all of the source disk data to a target disk. The source disk volumes can be cloned to the target disk "as is", or resized automatically according to the target disk size.
Disk and volume management operations
Experience the vast array of disk and volume management operations:
  • - Resize, move, copy, split and merge volumes without data loss or destruction
  • - Format and label volumes, change file systems, clusters size, assign volume letters, and set volumes active
  • - Delete volumes and clean up disks
  • - Hide/unhide volumes
  • - Specify i-node density
  • - Initialize newly added hard disks
  • - Explore volume data, even on Linux volumes, before performing operations
  • - Preview changes made in disk and volume layout before applying them
  • - Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, volumes, and file systems
Acronis Recovery Expert
Helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks.
Acronis Bootable Media Builder
Now, you can create bootable media based both on WinPE and Linux to use Acronis Disk Director on bare metal or outside of an operating system.
Disk Editor
A professional tool that performs a variety of actions on a hard disk.
Log
Examine information about disk and volume operations, including reasons for failure, if any.

* For the operating systems that support such functionality.

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Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server components:

Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Management Console
The management console is an administrative tool for remote or local access to Acronis agents.
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Agent for Windows
The agent provides disk management functionality such as, creating, resizing and merging volumes, cloning disks, converting disks, changing a disk partitioning style between MBR and GPT or changing a disk label, etc. These operations can be performed either in the operating system or using bootable media.
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Bootable Media Builder
The Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media (p. 84). The media builder can create bootable media based on either Windows Preinstallation Environment, or Linux kernel.

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Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server modules:

Partition Manager

Disk Editor

Acronis Recovery Expert

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Partition Manager

Allows you to automatically or manually merge, split, resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data. It also lets you reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize disk space usage and much more.

Acronis sets a new partitioning and design standards. Now everyone can be insulated from the task using goal-oriented wizards, but experienced users can access a wide array of advanced functions. Our exclusive product design includes:

  • Automatic mode for non-experienced users and manual mode for advanced users.
  • Targeted wizard-driven automatic partitioning for non-technical users.
  • A big number of features with complete manual control for experienced users.

Ideal companion product to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11

Together Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 and Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server provide comprehensive partition management and system protection. You can create two partitions on your system, one for data and one for applications. Then, you can backup your data partition on a regular schedule using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, ensuring that you capture changes to your data. You can also backup your system partition whenever you install new applications or apply new patches.

Acronis exclusive

  • Dual operating mode design (Automatic mode for non-experienced users and Manual Mode for advanced users).
  • FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP partition support. Special sector-by-sector support for copying and moving partitions of any other type.

Key features

  • New! Split one partition into two and leave your data intact.
  • New! Merge two partitions into one and leave your data untouched, even if file systems on the partitions are different.
  • New! Explore partition data before performing partitioning operations.
  • New! Troubleshoot issues and reasons for failure by viewing logs:
  • Resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data;
  • Create and delete partitions of any type;
  • Format partitions;
  • Automatically optimize hard disk space usage;
  • Convert FAT16 <=> FAT32, Linux Ext2 <=> Ext3 partitions without losing data;
  • Change cluster size automatically or manually;
  • Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, partitions and file systems;
  • Hide or make visible partitions of any type;
  • Preview changes made in partition layout before applying them to disk;
  • Supports large disks over 180 GB.

Other Features:

Disk Editor

Acronis Recovery Expert

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Disk Editor

Quite often problems can arise with hard disk drives that cannot be solved without a technically advanced disk editor. Such problems include: back up, copying, and/or recovery important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or extraction of information that was removed by accident or lost due to different soft- and hardware failures or virus attack.

Disk editor, included with Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server, provides the ability to boot from a CD/DVD or USB stick, irrespective of any operating system.

Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server allows you to back up and restore critical hard drive sectors, edit contents of hard disk sectors, representing them in the most convenient way. It has a simple and effective user interface by means of disk navigation and searching, saving sector content to files and reading them from files.

Key Features and Benefits

  • Allows you to edit content of a hard disk and its partitions
  • Supports IDE, SCSI, USB, IEEE 1394 hard disk drives
  • Works from bootable media if a PC fails to boot
  • Allows you to view hard disk partition contents in a hexadecimal mode
  • Supports additional viewing modes that allow you to work effectively with all disk data storage structures like Partition tables, FAT and NTFS partition boot sectors, root and other FAT folders
  • Pending execution allows you first to edit sector contents and then make a decision whether you want to save disk changes or discard them
  • Multi window operating mode gives you an opportunity of working with contents of one or several disk sectors in different windows
  • A unified Windows XP-styled graphic user interface with full mouse support

Hard disk editing

  • Supports a long list of encodings that allows you to interpret contents of hard disk sectors correctly
  • Automatically transits from Partition tables to necessary disk partitions
  • Transits to necessary disk sectors according to their absolute numbers
  • Searches disks for char sequences entered in char or hexadecimal lines according to the selected encoding
  • Works with information blocks of disk sectors
  • Saves selected blocks to files and reads information from files and its inserting to disk sectors
  • Provides detailed information about computer's hard disks and their partitions

PLEASE NOTE: Use of disk editor module requires advanced knowledge of partitions and file system structure.

Other Features:

Partition Manager

Acronis Recovery Expert

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Acronis Recovery Expert

Acronis Recovery Expert, included with Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server, completely protects your data, allowing you to recover deleted or lost partitions. You must have this program, if you care about your data safety and wish to be fully armed and ready for any personal, hard- or software failure, virus attack or hacker's intrusive destruction.

If your server becomes unbootable after a power outage or a system error, you can recover it instantly with Acronis Recovery Expert.

Key Features

  • Supported file systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, Linux Swap
  • Automatic and Manual recovery mode selections
  • Independenty work from bootable CD/DVD or USB stick in order to recover partitions even if your operating system fails to boot
  • Supports large disks over 180 GB
  • A Windows XP-like wizard styled interface for superior usability and ease of use

Other Features:

Partition Manager

Disk Editor

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Supported Operating Systems

  • Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 (all editions, including SBS)
  • Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 SP1 (all editions, including SBS)

Supported File Systems

  • FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
  • Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS3, Linux SWAP
  • Special sector-by-sector support for copying and moving partitions of any other type

Hardware RequirementsMinimumRecommended
Boot FirmwareBios-based*
Computer ProcessorModern processor, 800MHz or faster1GHz 32-bit or 64-bit X86 processor
System Memory512MB1GB or more
Screen Resolution800x600 pixels1024x768 or higher
Installation Disk Space500MB
Other HardwareMouseCD/DVD recording drive, or a flash drive, for bootable media creation

* Machines that are based on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) are not supported

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Product Documentation

Product Support

Other resources

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Screenshots

The graphical view provides visual information about all the disks and their volumes for better understanding of the volume configuration.
The graphical view also lets you select both the volumes and disks to perform operations on them.
The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without reinstalling operating systems and applications. It transfers all the source disk data to a target disk. The source disk volumes can be cloned to the target disk "as is", or resized automatically with respect to the target disk size.

The handy Create Volume wizard has been improved to support dynamic volume creation. Now, in addition to basic volumes, you can easily create dynamic volumes in Acronis Disk Director 11 to:

  • Increase the volume size beyond the capacity of a single disk, by using a spanned volume
  • Reduce access time to files, by using a striped volume
  • Achieve fault tolerance, by using a mirrored or RAID-5 volume *

* For the operating systems that support such functionality.

Quickly set up a fault-tolerant volume with the Create Volume Wizard. A RAID-5 volume occupies three or more disks in equally-sized portions.
Resizing a volume allows you to extend a volume-whether basic or dynamic-by taking unallocated space from one or more disks; or reduce a volume so that a portion of the volume's free space becomes unallocated space.

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Version Comparison

FeatureAcronis Disk Director 11 HomeAcronis Disk Director 11 Advanced WorkstationAcronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server
Price
Price per LicenseUS$49.99US$79.99US$609.00
Partition Management
Basic OperationsYesYesYes
Advanced operationsYesYesYes
Acronis Recovery ExpertYesYesYes
Install Multiples OSs on one PCYes
Disk EditorYes*YesYes
Rescue Media BuilderYesYesYes
Clone DiskYesYesYes
GPT Disk SupportYesYesYes
Dynamic Disk SupportYesYesYes
Repair RAID-5 ColumnYes
Administration
Command Line InterfaceYesYes
Commit Pending OperationsYesYesYes
Remote ManagementYesYes
Supported Operating Systems
Windows 7YesYes
Windows VistaYesYes
Windows XPYesYes
Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2Yes
Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2Yes

* Requires Acronis Disk Director 11 Home Update 1

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What is Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced?

Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Server and Advanced Workstation are powerful and easy-to-use tools for managing disks and volumes on local and remote machines. With a comprehensive set of operations, you can organize your hard disk and volume configuration for optimal performance, while keeping your data safe.

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Who needs Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced?

With its superior power, flexibility and ease of use, Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced is the right choice for businesses that need to perform advanced operations over disk layouts in order to get the most out of their servers and workstations in order to minimize downtime for maintenance and provide maximum server and workstation performance for mission critical applications.

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What are the main benefits of Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced?

Efficiency: Reorganize your servers and workstations for better performance and data safety
Flexibility: Resize, copy, move, split and merge partitions without losing your data
Powerful: Optimized to offer the best Windows® performance
Ease of Use: User friendly interface and wizards guide you to get the most out of your system

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What is new in Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced?

  • Full Windows 7, Windows Server 2008,Windows Server 2008 R2 Support
  • Dynamic Disk support*: Dynamic Disks provide greater functionality - volumes can be spread over several disks
  • GPT disk support: Create volumes over 2TB and get additional disk reliability against possible data damage
  • Add 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 the mirror
  • Span volume across multiple physical disks: Optimize your system by combining free space on different hard disk drives and get larger volumes
  • Convert basic disk to dynamic and vice versa: Convert the existing basic disks to dynamic to achieve additional disk reliability for data storage
  • Convert MBR disk to GPT and vice versa: Use to make a volume whose size is over 2 TB or if you need more than four primary volumes on one disk
  • Clone disk 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
  • Repair RAID-5 column: Restore a RAID-5 volume performance by reconstructing the data of the failed member on another disk
  • Remote management: Powerful and easy-to-use tool for managing disks and volumes on local and remote machines
  • WinPE media: Build WinPE-based rescuer media

* For supported operating systems

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What are the main features?

Manage all your 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 volumes letters and set volumes active
Ease-of-use
User friendly interface and wizards guide you in order to get the most out of your system
Recover lost or deleted partitions
Acronis® Recovery Expert helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks
Boot from CD/DVD or USB stick
Boot your system from CD/DVD or USB stick and manage all your volumes
Disk Editor
Edit disk at the sector level
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

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What are the differences between Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server, Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation and Acronis Disk Director 11 Home?

Please refer to the Version Comparison page.

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What operating systems does Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server support?

  • Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (all editions, including SBS)
  • Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 (all editions, including SBS)

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What operating systems does Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation support?

  • Windows 7 (all editions)
  • Windows Vista (all editions)
  • Windows XP (all editions)

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What are the minimum system requirements?

Boot firmware - Bios-based**
Computer processor - Modern processor, 800MHz or faster
System memory - 512MB
Screen resolution - 800x600 pixels
Installation disk space - 2GB
Other Hardware - Mouse

** Machines that are based on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) are not supported

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How many servers can benefit from one Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server license?

You are allowed to install and use Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server on one server

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How many servers can benefit from one Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation license?

You are allowed to install and use Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation on one workstation

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Why should I register my new Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server or Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation license?

The purchase of your product includes one year of the Acronis Advantage® Premier maintenance and support service. To qualify and take full advantage of this support program, you must register your product.

Registering your copy of Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced is fast and simple. Once your copy is registered you can take advantage of the following benefits:

  • A direct line to our support team
  • A secure place to archive your serial number
  • Legal certainty about the software you have bought and are entitled to use
  • Free product updates
  • Information about the latest product updates and special offers
  • Free updates
  • An overview of all your licenses
  • Exclusive information on demand about new products and special offers

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我能否在購買 Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server 或 Advanced Workstation 前先試用產品?

是的。您可在此下載演示版 http://www.acronis.com.hk/enterprise/download/diskdirector-server/. 此版本有某些功能限用。

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Customer Stories

'Edward Mendelson:

Our test system (running Acronis Recovery Expert) worked effortlessly and quickly to find and restore a Linux partition that had been deleted months go. If you've ever lost a partition to buggy or malicious software, this utility alone may be worth the price (of Acronis Disk Director Suite).
 

Davey Winder,
PC Pro Magazine:

If you've been looking for advanced disk management, coupled with a truly intuitive interface, the search is over.
 

Roger Bradley:

I just want to say how very pleased and impressed I am with Acronis software. I've used Acronis Migrate Easy, Acronis Partition Expert then Acronis Disk Director and Acronis True Image. They work every time and I cannot praise them highly enough. I've used similar products from other suppliers and have experienced problems, either due to unclear instructions or difficult and confusing interfaces. Acronis products are easy to use in no small part because they have a clean and attractive graphical interface. But more importantly they work. I would recommend Acronis to anyone needing powerful, easy to use tools with non-intimidating graphics.
 

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