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October 9th, 2014 09:00

Datadomain Expansion

Hi everyone

I am wondering if any of you have experience with expanding DD's with ES30 shelves with different disks...

So for example:

- DD2500 + ES30 with 2TB disks + ES30 with 3TB disks

I heard it is supported BUT not best practise to do so... any comment?

Thanks!

  • ble1

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    Posted October 9th, 2014 15:00

    I don't have reference at the moment, but I believe this is supported (as long as you have different disks separated by different disk shelves of course).

  • epaape

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    Posted October 10th, 2014 00:00

    hi!

    watch out for the drive type. the first generation of es30 shelves have sata drives. these cant be mixed with es30 shelves with sas drives.

    the dd2500 only supports shelves with sas drives and u can only use 2tb or 3tb disks.

    dd2500.jpg

    source: dd fundamentals guide

  • epaape

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    Posted December 15th, 2016 04:00

    Hi Andre,

    yes. But you have to watchout for max capacity.

    Question is why do you want to mix them?

  • andre.nunes

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    Posted December 15th, 2016 04:00

    Hi, so it's possible to mix ES30-45S and ES30-30S in the same DD2500?

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    Posted December 15th, 2016 04:00

    Thanks EikePaape  and Hrvoje Crvelin .

     

    I found a document that confirm the possibility to mix shelfs 30 and 45

    DD.jpg

     

    My customer has DD2500 with first shelf ES30-30 and asked to me about the options of expansion.

  • ble1

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    Posted December 15th, 2016 04:00

    You can mix shelves, but you can't mix drives within shelf.  I assume best approach is not to mix anything

  • jbrooksuk

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    Posted December 15th, 2016 05:00

    Up to a maximum of 4 x 30-TB SAS shelves or 3 x 45-TB SAS shelves; up to 135 TB of raw capacity.