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Installing Disk and Tape Drives
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RAID Configuration Guidelines
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Fault management must be supported and enabled by an optional RAID
adapter for disk drive hot swapping.
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When adding a RAID adapter to a server that does not have RAID installed,
use the RAID software to configure your server for RAID operation.
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Select the disk drives in the hot swap drive bays for hot-swap support in a
RAID server.
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Use the same capacity drives in a RAID group; otherwise, the difference in
drive capacity will be lost.
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Using external storage, the maximum number of logical drives in a RAID
group is 32.
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To maximize the I/O performance of your multi-channel RAID subsystem
with external storage, connect each disk drive in a RAID group on a
separate SCSI channel. This enables the RAID adapter concurrent access
to all hot swap drives.
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Supported RAID levels include: 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and RAID 7 (JBOD).
RAID Description Drives Per RAID Group
0 Striping - no redundancy 2 - 8
1 Mirroring 2
0 + 1 Striping and mirroring 3 - 8
5 Striping with parity 3 - 8
7 Single disk - no redundancy
(factory default)
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Note: Each RAID server comes configured as RAID 7 or JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks)