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May 4th, 2010 14:00
NX3000 : disks organization
Hi all,
If I understand correctly on the NX300 comes pre-installed with the following disks organization :
/2 disks in RAID 1 where the OS is pre-installed
/4 disks in RAID 5 for the data
So finally, only 3 disks can be used to store data (4 minus 1 for the RAID) on the 6.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but using 2 disks in RAID1 for the OS look like a waste to me.
So we are thinking about using this disks organization :
/6 disks in RAID5 with 1 hotspare with one partition for the OS and one partition for the data
Is it possible ?
Do we have everything to re-installed the NX like this ?
Please advice
Stephane
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May 4th, 2010 14:00
I'm not sure it'll allow a different disk layout when doing the install, but if it does, keep in mind that the bootdisk cannot exceed 2TB in size. So if your 6-disk raid 5 would be over 2TB, you'll have to make it 2 virtual disks where the first one is no larger than 2TB (e.g. 50GB for just the C-drive) and the rest as a data virtual disk.
Stephane Fouchereau
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May 10th, 2010 12:00
Good point ! I forgot about the bootdisk size limit. I have the feeling that keeping the disk layout is needed if you want to avoid issue and keep support easy
I will probably upgrade to the 12 disks powervault
Thx for your answer
babarsarwar
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July 6th, 2010 03:00
I have done the same thing to utilize the more Disk space ,create the 80 GB partition for OS and remaining will be utilize for storage in RAID 5 Configuration.