Managing Server Drives; Hardware Raid Support; Managing Nvme Devices - Oracle Netra SPARC S7-2 Series Administration Manual

Managing Server Drives

These topics describe how to configure and manage server drives.
"Hardware RAID Support" on page 77
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"Managing NVMe Devices" on page 77
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Related Information
"Matching Devices to Device Names" on page 69
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Hardware RAID Support

These servers, unlike some past SPARC servers, do not provide built-in hardware RAID
support. You cannot use the hardware RAID functions that were provided through Fcode-based
RAID utilities and commands such as create-raid1-volume).
In place of hardware RAID, consider using the ZFS capabilities provided in Oracle Solaris. For
information about creating Oracle Solaris ZFS storage pools and root pools, refer to Managing
ZFS File Systems in Oracle Solaris 11.3 at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01.
Related Information
"Managing NVMe Devices" on page 77
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Managing NVMe Devices

NVMe drives and cards will work with most commands available for a SAS or SATA drive or
SSD. In addition, on NVMe devices, you can use the nvmeadm command that is provided in the
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