HP ProLiant ML310 G3 Data Protection Storage Server administration guide (June 2006)

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HP ProLiant Sto
rage Servers are preconfigured with default storage settings and preinstalled with the
Windows Storage Ser ver 2003 R2 operating system (OS). This section provides additional details about
the preconfigured storage for the ML310 G3 Data Protection Storage Server .
Physical configuration
Four HDDs are included with the Data Protection Storage Servers, and they are configured for hardware
RAID5faulttoleranceusingtheHP6–portSATARAIDcontroller.
The HDD s are hot-pluggable and hot-swappable. The drives can be removed and installed with the p ower
on, and the H P 6–port SATA R AI D controller determines whether a rebuild of a d rive is necessary.
NOTE:
With HP Storage Manager, logical disks are labeled 1, 2, and so on. In M icrosoft Disk Manager, logical
disks are displayed as 0, 1 , and so on. Information about HP Storage Manager can be obtained from
h
ttp://h200005.www2.hp.com/bc/d ocs/support/SupportManual/c00405440/c00405440.pdf.
The logical drives reside on all four physical disks as shown in Figure 7.TheRAID5DON’TERASE
volume contains an image that is deployed onto the OS partition during system installation. The data
volume, available for use by the DPM software, is also configured as a RAID 5 logical drive across all
four drives. This ensures redundancy in the event of a drive failure.
Physical Drive 0 Physical Drive 1 Physical Drive 2 Physical Drive 3
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Logical Disk 1
Operating System Volume
RAID 5
Logical Disk 2
DON’T ERASE Volume
RAID 5
Logical Disk 3
Data Volume
RAID 5
Figure 7 M L310 G3 D ata Protection Storage Server h ardware RAID
Table 5 shows how the ProLiant ML310 Data Protection Storage Servers are configured.
Tabl e 5 ML310 G3 Data Protection Storage Ser ver configurations
L
ogical
disk
R
AID level
Size/allocation
Purpose
1
R
AID 5
15 GB across physical drives 0, 1, 2, 3
Primary OS
2
RAID 5
5GBacrossphysicaldrives0,1,2,3
DON’T
ERASE
3
RAID 5
Remaining space across physical drives 0, 1,
2, 3
Data
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