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September 5th, 2016 01:00

Unity system disk

hi there ...

Does anybody know Unity system disk protection ? ( 0-3 ) would this be mirrored ?

thanks !

aya



  • AndreD Dell

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    Posted September 5th, 2016 01:00

    Yes, the system disk area is similar to the VNX one.

    There are a lot of differences, but the system drives are still mirrored across the 4 initial drives.

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    Posted September 5th, 2016 02:00

    Yes its protected against at least the loss of one drive

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    Posted September 5th, 2016 04:00

    hi all

    thanks you so much for the information.

    BTW... is there any doc stating that info by any chance ?

    thanks !

    aya



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    Posted September 6th, 2016 00:00

    hello again ....

    I found no Document ( in public ) but that is not big deal...

    BTW if double fault occurred, what will happen ? DL for system space ?

    thanks

    aya



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    Posted September 6th, 2016 02:00

    The internal structure of the system drives isn’t documented customer facing.

    If you have more than one system drive failed then you work with customer service to recover.

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    Posted September 6th, 2016 05:00

    thanks Rainer_EMC  !



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    Posted December 2nd, 2016 15:00

    when you create a pool, are these system drives included or selectable?

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    Posted December 4th, 2016 12:00

    sunman wrote:

    when you create a pool, are these system drives included or selectable?

    they are included but they will be used last

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    Posted December 7th, 2016 01:00

    Unity has one internal SSD used as OS and vault drive.

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    System drives shown in green are contain array information and are located on drives 0 through 3 in the DPE.

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    Victor Wu, Chief Enterprise Architect

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    Posted December 7th, 2016 06:00

    *Before performing any actions like this Customer Service should be engaged as this may not be necessary.

    To go further when you're in Unisphere for Unity... Service -> Service Tasks you can put the SP into "Service Mode" then execute the ReImage task.. "https://community.emc.com/Reimage a Storage Processor (SP) to safely fix problems with the system software that could not be resolved by rebooting the SP. Reimaging reinstalls the user's root operating system while leaving the user's data intact."

    This information can be found by clicking "More Information" while having Reimage selected in unisphere or by going to online help using the ? at the top right of the Unisphere.

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