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12. Select specific disks for RAID with an [X].
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RAID0: Select at least two [2 - 24] disks
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RAID1: Select only two disks
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RAID5: Select at least three [3 - 24] disks
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RAID10: Select only four disks
13. Select Strip Size (Default 64KB).
14. Select Create Volume.
15. If another RAID is needed, start again at step 6.
16. Press [F4] to save and reboot.
Status Indications
An LED indicator on the drive carrier shows the RAID status of the drive.
Hot Swap Drives
Intel VMD enables hot-plug and hot-unplug for NVMe SSDs, whether from Intel or other
manufacturers. Under vSphere ESXi, several steps are necessary to avoid potential stability
issues. See the information at link [1] below.
Hot-unplug
1. Prevent devices from being re-detected during rescan:
esxcli storage core claiming autoclaim --enabled=false
2. Unmount the VMFS volumes on the device. Check [2] for details.
3. Detach the device. Check [3] for details.
4. Physically remove the device.
Drive Carrier Status LED Indicator
Status
State (red)
Normal function
Off
Locating
4Hz blink
Fault
Solid on
Rebuilding
1Hz blink
IBPI SFF 8489 Defined Status LED States
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