Internal Hard Disk Drives; Raid Configuration - NEC Express5800/R110i-1 System Configuration Manual

SYSTEM CONFIGRATION GUIDE –

4 Internal Hard Disk Drives

4.1

RAID Configuration

Refer to the section in accordance with your disk form factor and RAID configuration.
4.1.1 2.5-inch Drive
Operating System
VMware ESXi 6.0
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
VMware ESXi 6.5
NOTE:
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Up to four drives can be installed when you choose the Embedded SATA non-RAID controller.
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All drives within a RAID array should be of the same type, capacity and rotation speed.
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Up to two kinds of drives selected from SAS 10K HDDs (512n), SAS 10K HDDs (512e), SAS 15K HDDs, SATA HDDs SAS
SSDs, SATA SSD (ME), and SATA SSD (VE) can be mixed.
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To configure a large-capacity RAID array, it is recommended to configure in RAID 6 or RAID 60 in order to minimize the risk of
becoming multiple hard drives failure during the RAID rebuilding process.
NEC Corporation
NEC Express5800/R110i-1
Slot 0 Slot 1
Supported RAID configuration
RAID and Cache
Non-RAID (Embedded SATA)
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 5/6/50/60 1GB Cache
RAID 5/6/50/60 2GB Cache
Non-RAID (Embedded SATA)
RAID 0/1 (Embedded SATA RAID)
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 5/6/50/60 1GB Cache
RAID 5/6/50/60 2GB Cache
Non-RAID (Embedded SATA)
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 5/6/50/60 1GB Cache
RAID 5/6/50/60 2GB Cache
Revision 2.0 – June, 2017
Slot 2
Slot 4
Slot 3
Slot 5
Section
4.2.1
No Cache 4.2.3
1GB Cache 4.2.4
4.2.5
4.2.6
4.2.1
4.2.2
4.2.3
No Cache
1GB Cache 4.2.4
4.2.5
4.2.6
4.2.1
No Cache 4.2.3
1GB Cache 4.2.4
4.2.5
4.2.6
Slot 6
Slot 7
Supported
HDD/SSD
4.3.1
4.3.3
4.3.1
4.3.2
4.3.4
4.3.1
4.3.4
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