All basic and dynamic volumes should be in a disk group. There is only one disk group for basic disks, known as the Basic disk group (or BasicGroup in the VEA GUI). There can be one or more dynamic disk groups. A dynamic disk group contains dynamic disks managed by SFW.

When you move disks between computers, you use the Import and Deport Dynamic Disk Group commands. The disk group for clusters is called a cluster disk group.

On Windows Server operating systems, there are two different types of dynamic disk groups, the Microsoft Disk Management Disk Group and the SFW dynamic disk group. The Microsoft Disk Management Disk Group is a disk group that can be created by Microsoft Disk Management. In the VEA GUI, this type of disk group is distinguished with an icon containing the character "M". In addition to the SFW disk groups, SFW can also create and manage the Microsoft Disk Management Disk Group.