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EMC VNX5100 Raid group and connectivity
Hi All,
We are planned to buy EMC VNX 5100 (9 x 600GB, 15K SAS Drives). Which RAID group configured by default in VNX5100? I aware first five disks is the "vault,PSM,Flare DB,OS" area. How much space occupied for vault area and one morething,we have Brocade SAN switch with 8 Ports licensed. already we connected 4 ports to VMware hosts and 2 ports for existing EMC celerra NX4 array.we have only two ports remaining. After purchase VNX storage, can i connect the array to those two ports?can i configure 4 Vmware hosts as a storage group in two different array.is both array's LUNs will visible to all 4 hosts? Please suggest me. please note that no zoning configured in san switch.
Anonymous
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June 12th, 2013 08:00
Hello,
In Clariion, first 5 disks are for FLARE.
In VNX, first 4 disks are for OE (Operating Environment). In VNX, we no more use the term FLARE.
User is free to choose RAID type while configuring the disk drives.
Hope the following documents help
This white paper provides recommended best practices for installing and configuring VNX unified systems for best performance
https://support.emc.com/docu42660_Applied-Best-Practices-Guide:-EMC-VNX-Unified-Best-Practices-for-Performance.pdf
Host Connectivity Guide for VMWare ESX Server
https://support.emc.com/docu5265_Host_Connectivity_Guide_for_VMWare_ESX_Server.pdf?language=en_US
The VNX5100 Hardware Information Guide
https://support.emc.com/docu41760_VNX5100_Hardware_Information_Guide.pdf?language=en_US
This White Paper introduces the EMC VNX series unified platform
https://support.emc.com/docu32529_White-Paper:-Introduction-to-the-EMC-VNX-Series-%E2%80%94-A-Detailed-Review.pdf?language=en_US
kelleg
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July 30th, 2013 14:00
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