Best Practices-Lff Drive Allocating And Loading Guidelines - HP HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 Installation Manual

Best Practices—LFF Drive Allocating and Loading Guidelines
When allocating and loading drives in enclosures, the following are the Hewlett Packard
Enterprise recommended best practice guidelines:
Load LFF drive types (FC, NL, and SSD) in pairs.
Load starting from slot 0 on the bottom of the left column and filling the slots moving upward
in the column, before moving to the bottom of the next column to the right.
Load all of the same drive types in adjacent slots before loading the next drive type.
Allocate the same number of drive-type pairs to every enclosure in the system.
If there is more than one expansion enclosure in the system, load the drives in pairs so they
are balanced across the enclosure node connections DP1 and DP2, and then added to
enclosures in a vertical column.
Figure 69 Best practices—LFF example
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