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dell equallogic simlulator
Hello,
Sorry for my english but i'm french.
I would like to know if a equallogic interface simulator exist.
I explain My compagny want to i take formation in equallogic and for lab i have need a simulator of equallogic storage.
I would like to if a simulator of disk space on equallogic exist explaination if i have 7 tera with raid 50 the final space is minus. How can i know this space?
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February 9th, 2010 06:00
I don't know of a customer-available simulator (who knows what Dell has internally).
To figure out disk space is easy.
I assume you're talking about a 16-disk enclosure fully populated.
In this case I believe that there are 6 raid options:
- raid 10 with 2 hotspares (yields 7 drives in usable space)
- raid 10 without any hotspares (yields 8 drives in usable space)
- raid 50 with 2 hotspares (yields 12 drives in usable space)
- raid 50 without any hotspares (yields 14 drives in usable space)
- raid 5 with 1 hotspare (yields 14 drives in usable space)
- raid 6 with 1 hotspare (yields 13 drives in usable space)
* The raid types without a hotspare can only be selected if you configure the unit via serial, or you have to set it up as raid 10 or 50 and then later via SSH convert to the no-spares raid type.
So you just need to decide which drive size you want to use, multiply this by about 0.93 (decimal to binary conversion means that from billions of bytes to gigabytes you lose about 7%), and pick your raid type.