Configuring Your Server For Raid; Raid Support Using The Sun Storagetek Raid Card - Sun Microsystems Fire X4150 Installation Manual

Configuring Your Server for RAID

Your Sun Fire X4150, X4250, and X4450 servers server supports the Sun StorageTek™
and the LSI SAS3081E-INT RAID controller cards. More information about these two
cards is available in the following sections:
"RAID Support Using the Sun StorageTek RAID Card" on page 7
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"RAID Support Using LSI SAS3081E-INT Card" on page 8
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Note – The LSI SAS3081E-INT card is also known as the LSI SG-XPCIE8SAS.

RAID Support Using the Sun StorageTek RAID Card

The Sun StorageTek RAID card supports a number of hardware RAID configurations
(see ). All your server's operating systems support this card. See the
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chapter that corresponds to the OS that you want to install for further information
about configuring RAID using the StorageTek controller card.
See your service manual for instructions on installing the StorageTek card.
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See the Sun x64 Server - Disk Management (Adaptec) Documentation collection for
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detailed configuration instructions.
RAID Drive Options Based on SAS Card
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SAS CARD RAID Configuration Supported
Volume: 1 disk
Sun StorageTek
RAID 0 Striping, 2 disk minimum, no redundancy
RAID 1 Mirror, 2 disk minimum, 50% drive usage
RAID 1E 3-drive minimum, 50% drive usage
RAID 10 4-drive minimum, 50% drive usage
RAID 5 3-drive minimum, 67–94% drive usage
RAID 5EE 4-drive minimum, 50–88% drive usage
RAID 50 6-drive minimum, - 67–94% drive usage
RAID 6 4-drive minimum, 50–88% drive usage
RAID 60 8-drive minimum, 50–88% drive usage
Spanned Volume 2-drive minimum, 100% drive usage
RAID Volume 4-drive minimum, 50-100% drive usage
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